Publications & Insight

UK Due Diligence legislation: Where do we go from here?

After a lively House of Lords debate, the Environment Bill heads back to the Commons with its due-diligence shortcomings intact.

13/10/2021

The European Parliament wants EU biodiversity policies to work for vulnerable peoples and to boost development

As United Nations biodiversity and climate meetings approach, the Parliament pushes for greater coherence among policies that affect conservation as well as the rights and livelihoods of people in timber producing countries.

13/10/2021

Biodiversity and climate change: The EU needs a better set of monitoring tools

Funded forestry actions should demonstrate sustainability, but the European Court of Auditors find it is difficult to assess anything with current means of measuring

13/10/2021

Fears the EU-Indonesia trade agreement won’t learn from mistakes of the past

There are parallels with the problematic Mercosur-EU trade agreement as Indonesian NGOs reveal the lack of an impact assessment and concerns about human rights impacts.

13/10/2021

NGO Statements

Making TSD chapters more effective

Joint contribution to the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Review

11/10/2021

Forest governance, Events

Nature-based Solutions: How to avoid land grabbing in the name of biodiversity?

When:

Tuesday 12 October, 13:00 – 17:00 (Brussels - CET).

Interpretation in English, French, Russian and Spanish

Background:

With Members of the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi, Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, and Marc...

29/09/2021

Briefing Notes

Including smallholders in EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests

In Mid-December 2021 the European Commission is due to release a regulatory proposal to minimise the European Union’s (EU) deforestation and forest degradation footprint. In advance of this draft proposal, six NGOs have come...

21/09/2021

Dropping rubber from the EU’s deforestation-free supply chain regulation is not an option

Increased deforestation and farmer poverty would likely result from Commission’s failure to include this commodity in due diligence rules right from the start.

16/09/2021

So far, EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement delivers only for trade

Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.

16/09/2021

Ministries split on the Forest Strategy

Member State governments must be fearless in putting forests, climate and public interests dead centre in the upcoming discussion on the Forest Strategy.

16/09/2021