The European Parliament is currently discussing the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) which will determine how biomass can be used for energy towards meeting the EU’s renewable energy target and minimum...
28/09/2017
The European Parliament’s plenary vote, 13 September 2017, on how EU nations account for emissions from their land and forest sectors (LULUCF Regulation) was disheartening. The European People’s Party (EPP) proposed last-minute...
25/09/2017
On 11 September 2017, the European Court of Justice ECJ heard arguments relating to Poland’s failure to comply with the ECJ’s injunction (27 July) on logging in Białowieża Forest – a serious and unprecedented act of defiance, for...
Countries need to start coming up with numbers for how much carbon they will remove from the atmosphere, argues an article published in Nature (August 2017). Authors Glen Petersen and Oliver Gedden point out that all trajectories...
In the uncertain process of disentangling the United Kingdom from its European partners, the UK timber industry have cautioned not to throw the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) and FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements (FLEGT VPAs)...
The European Parliament is currently finalising both the new land use and forestry (LULUCF) file and the proposal for the Renewable Energy Directive, at a time when the role of forests in mitigating climate change and cleaning the...
The Conservative MEP Richard Ashworth has vowed to “defend the Malaysian Palm Oil industry against EU biofuel policy reforms,” according to media reports. He was a member of a delegation of European Conservative and Reformist...
11/09/2017
A light breeze of democratisation is blowing through the Congo Basin – and it is being driven by civil society.In the Central African Republic (CAR), civil society is playing a key role in rebuilding a nation torn apart by civil...
