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Despite forests covering almost 40% of land in the EU, we don’t have easily accessible, real-time information about what is happening to them. Instead, we get assessments every five years that send worrying signals on the state of...
05/03/2025
Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere than what we currently let ecosystems do....
04/03/2025
Since 2012, the German car company Porsche has managed the Nardò Technical Centre (NTC) in Southern Italy, a famous test drive centre built in 1975 that features a 12.6-kilometre high-speed circular track – the Ring – where...
06/02/2025
In these tense times, it is heartening to see people care enough to strongly defend the climate and environment. In mid-December 2024, more than 100,000 individuals hit the streets of Santiago de Compostela – a turn-out unheard of...
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Forest area is increasing, but European forests have low resilience impacting their ability to buffer climate impacts, sustain other plants and animals, and remain a respite for Europeans. Forest sector employment is...
20/11/2024
After a scandal revealed that Stora Enso logging operations had crushed IUCN and EU-listed critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels, the company temporarily suspended operations in areas protected under various Finnish laws...
13/11/2024
Eastern European forests are currently being severely degraded, putting their unique biodiversity and climate at risk. From 2010-2019, the Eastern European carbon sink showed a 52% decrease of overall carbon uptake from land use...
European companies seem to flip flop on the usefulness of having harmonised information systems to monitor their forestry activities, depending on the law being discussed and who is being asked to deliver it. Representatives from...
16/10/2024
A recent report by Estonia’s Court of Auditors has raised questions about the meteoric growth of Europe’s largest producer of wood pellets, Graanul Invest (GI). Biomass subsidies from the EU and its Member States were thought to...
18/09/2024
In June 2024, a cutting-edge analysis published in Nature Communications confirmed tree harvesting as the main driver of disturbances to European forests, in a context where overall disturbances are increasing; it also highlighted...
09/07/2024
