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Forest Watch

Forest Watch 248 - September 2019

Commission Communication opens door to regulation of products that destroy forests, but proposed Mercosur trade deal throws fuel on the Amazon fires

18/09/2019

Blogs

Here’s how CAFI’s $65 million can help save Congo’s forests

On 3 September 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron (on behalf of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), as France holds this year’s presidency) and President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo signed a ground-...

18/09/2019

News

German forests: Climate change is not the only problem

Poor forest management also needs to shoulder some of the blame.

18/09/2019

News

NGOs ask the new European Commission to act boldly against illegal logging and forest destruction

Tropical forests consumed by fire and colossal hurricanes show that the time for half-measures to address climate change and forest destruction is long past.

18/09/2019

News

New Commission Communication opens door to regulation of the products that destroy our forests

Council and Parliament urged to get involved to fix oversights and reinforce ambition in new forest Communication.

18/09/2019

News

The proposed Mercosur deal throws fuel on the Amazon fires

Hope remains: the deal can still be rejected, as a first step toward requiring that companies and consumers do better.

18/09/2019

Blogs

Europeans must face their own role in the destruction of the Amazon

Images of the Amazon burning have caused global alarm. They have also, say observers, triggered a response unparalleled in the history of the politics around climate change: the setting of international red lines on environmental destruction.

06/09/2019

Briefing Notes

Healthy forests = equitable livelihoods, inclusive development and a resilient climate

This briefing endorsed by Client Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, Fern, Forest Peoples Programme, and Transparency International details what the EU can do to ensure that healthy forests contribute to local...

04/09/2019

Press Releases

NGOs call for new laws to end the EU’s complicity in Amazon fires

Twenty-six NGOs, have urged European Institutions to end European complicity in the fires raging in the Amazon by passing tough new laws guaranteeing that products sold in the EU are free from deforestation and human rights abuses. The NGOs, which include Fern, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth Europe, Global Witness, also outline how EU Member States have helped fuel the current crisis through their extensive imports of soy and beef.

29/08/2019

NGO Statements

Plea to address EU complicity in the Amazon fires

On August 29, twenty-six NGOs, have sent an open letter to European leaders urging them to end European complicity in the fires raging in the Amazon. 

NGOs believe the EU can act decisively in two ways.

    1. Suspend...

29/08/2019