Publications & Insight

Forest Watch

Biomass: new, troubling data on use and subsidies in the EU

Biomass remains a false solution to an increasingly pressing climate and biodiversity crisis.

09/11/2021

Forest governance, Forest Watch

FLEGT VPA paved the way for the US-Vietnam Timber Agreement

A US-Vietnam agreement underscores FLEGT’s broad impact

09/11/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs are alarmed that EU anti-deforestation law could let soy-driven forest destruction off the hook

In a letter, a coalition of NGOs urged the EU Commission to ensure that all soy imports, including soybean cake and soy-protein concentrate (SPC), and those produced through the conversion of savannahs, are included in the scope...

08/11/2021

Forest governance, Reports

CLIMATE FINANCE - How can it help to protect forests and human rights and improve governance?

Forests are crucial to keeping average global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Their protection and restoration could provide a cost-effective solution for climate mitigation, and adaptation. To meet targets for the Agriculture,...

05/11/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the EU can create a bioenergy policy that civil society and citizens can support.

05/11/2021

News, Blogs

History in the making?

The United States and the European Union are on the verge of passing historic anti-deforestation laws. But for all their strengths, both still have major flaws, write Nicole Polsterer and Etelle Higonnet.

03/11/2021

Due diligence… but not just yet

With the delay of two legislative proposals on deforestation and sustainable corporate governance, accountability has been pushed back.

01/11/2021

News

NGOs are concerned that EU anti-deforestation regulation would largely fail to address deforestation in Brazil

A group of NGOs shared their concerns about the upcoming EU legislation on forest and other ecosystem-risk commodities. If the regulation leaves out key high-risk cattle products, such as processed beef and hides, and excludes the...

28/10/2021

Briefing Notes

The Rights Path to Restoration

The world needs a great global forest restoration. But for that to work climatically, socially or ecologically it also needs a global restoration of land rights for forest dwellers. By Fred Pearce.

28/10/2021

Events

How the EU, UK and US deforestation laws will impact Brazil

COP26 side event

27/10/2021