Publications & Insight

News, Forest Watch

Mercosur disarray exposes EU Trade policy weakness

Germany has at last acknowledged that the EU-Mercosur deal is toxic, joining a growing number of Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) that have expressed concerns – and also revealing the...

16/09/2020

News, Forest Watch

EU and UK launch consultations on policies to reduce deforestation in supply chains

Following its  Communication on Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests in 2019, the European Commission has finally opened a questionnaire-based consultation on policies needed to reduce deforestation and...

16/09/2020

Beyond LULUCF: Legal cover for a shrinking EU forest sink

The Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation will measure − and allow − a drop in carbon storage without penalty. Without better laws, the future for forests looks bleak. 

The rules for accounting forest carbon...

11/09/2020

Films

EU-Mercosur trade deal: What does it mean for Brazil?

Brazil's environmental policies affect some of the world’s most important forests and can have a devastating effect on the traditional communities that live in and off them. This has a knock-on effect on the climate, our planet,...

02/09/2020

Blogs

The COVID recovery plan for Europe: Why MEPs are our last chance to make it work for the climate

The €1.8 trillion pandemic recovery plan and long-term budget deal agreed by EU heads of government on 21 July 2020, after nearly five days of haggling, is widely seen as a political and economic landmark. But from an...

30/07/2020

Blogs

COVID-19: Is Ghana’s government losing the battle?

With lockdown eased, preventing the spread of disease is shifts to individual responsibility.

23/07/2020

Blogs

Liberia and COVID: Reliable information needed

NGOs struggle to raise awareness in communities, and then struggle to get the information they need to be effective.

23/07/2020

Events

What Climate Strategy for European Forests? Rethinking their contribution to climate neutrality

The European Union (EU) has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. This will require us to both drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon dioxide removals. Many countries rely heavily on scenarios that...

21/07/2020

Blogs

Compelling new evidence shows the EU’s entanglement with illegal deforestation for soy and cattle farming in Brazil

Since taking office in January 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro has waged a relentless campaign against Brazil’s environmental laws and the rights of its Indigenous Peoples.

This assault helped paved the way for the fires that tore...

17/07/2020

Briefing Notes

Letting trees age: an effective climate strategy

French forests are currently at a crossroads. Ever since the 2007 Grenelle Environment Forum, France, like many European countries, has allowed industrial wood energy projects to proliferate. Now the urgent need to deal with the...

14/07/2020