Member States are presently required to undertake limited EU level forest monitoring. This is problematic since forests are key to meeting EU biodiversity and climate goals, and there is a fast deteriorating trend in both. The...
18/07/2022
Member States who fail to implement EU biodiversity laws may want to rethink their approach given recent decisions by the European Court of Justice.
13/07/2022
If the EU’s flagship conservation programme takes a ‘fortress conservation’ approach, it will harm the livelihoods of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.
After the Council fails to defend the future of forests, it now falls to the European Parliament and the Commission to reaffirm the rules’ purpose and to restrict loopholes.
The draft text of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products has advanced, but the Commission and Council positions left issues and omissions
As the finish line appears in the long process to agree the new EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free products, the ENVI Committee moves forward where the Commission and Council feared to tred.
Ahead of the autumn trilogue, the Council has failed to defend the forests, though the Parliament fared better
As the Ukraine Recovery Conference begins in Lugano (Switzerland), 25 NGOs from Ukraine and across Europe have sent a letter to the European Commission urging them to ensure that there are strong social and environmental conditions attached to the RebuildUkraine effort, and in particular the Ukraine Solidarity Trust Fund.
04/07/2022
