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Three decades of protecting forests and rights

In recent years, forests moved to the heart of EU policymaking, but now a range of forces are pushing back against all that’s been achieved. This is a moment of reckoning and we must hold tight to our founding values, writes...

05/12/2025

NGO Statements

Companies, Investors and Civil Society unite behind call on the European Commission to end legal uncertainty and implement the EU Deforestation Regulation

The companies, investors, non-governmental and civil society organisations represented in this statement stand united in strong opposition to any further delay or weakening of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

The EUDR was...

03/12/2025

News

Extractivism, wood burning and a missed opportunity: the EU Bioeconomy Strategy

Yesterday, European Environment Commissioner Roswall presented the revised European Bioeconomy Strategy. Martin Pigeon and Sydney Vennin offer their initial impressions:

Business as usual

There are few meaningful changes to...

28/11/2025

Press Releases

The EU’s will to tackle its forest footprint is in danger of collapsing

26 November 2025, Brussels – The European Parliament today voted to delay the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) before it has even entered into application, and opened the door to revising it next year. This follows the approach...

26/11/2025

Events

The Clean Energy Transition in the DRC

Opportunities and Challenges of the Lobito Corridor Initiative

As the European Union deepens its engagement in Africa’s critical raw material value chains, the Lobito Corridor Initiative has emerged as a flagship Global Gateway...

20/11/2025

Events

COP30: Putting Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Afro-descendant Peoples at the center of forest protection

Building direct funding mechanisms that work

Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Afro-descendent Peoples (IPLCPAP) protect over 55% of the world’s remaining forests, yet they only receive a fraction of global climate...

12/11/2025

Events

COP30: Human Rights, Commodities and Deforestation in Brazil

Organised by Observatorio-Socioambiental, this event presented a proposal for a new Social Environmental Observatory and Platform which will bring together data about human rights violations, production of commodities in Brazil so...

12/11/2025

Reports

Creating a Platform for collecting and visualising social and human rights impacts: Lessons from Brazil

This publication was updated in February 2026. 

Deforestation impacts more than forests and wildlife: it is a multifaceted problem that has human rights impacts and dispossesses Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and...

10/11/2025

Forest Watch 310 - November 2025

COP30 kicks off, but EU still focussed on undoing its climate and forest policies

10/11/2025

News, Forest Watch

Looking forward: What to expect from the next two weeks of the Forest COP

Today, 10 November 2025, marks day one of the 30th United Nations climate conference (COP30) – ‘the Forest COP’ (or the COP of truth) – held at the ‘gateway to the Amazon’ in Belém, Brazil.

Fern and several partners are there,...

10/11/2025