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MEPs omit obligation to respect human rights in the final text of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products.
14/12/2022
The EU’s proposed Carbon Removals Certification scheme embraces dubious activities, favouring publicity over results.
The Ukraine war and associated energy crisis are leading to calls to suspend environmental and participation protections, but doing so even ‘temporarily’ will open the natural world to lasting harm.
Introduction
The 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP27) included an historic breakthrough in establishing a new fund for Loss and Damage, but also a perceived lack of...
12/12/2022
Sharm El-Sheikh is the last stop for forest commitments to get back on course; local and Indigenous communities and their civil society partners must take part in the solutions at hand.
18/11/2022
Industry efforts to keep cocoa prices low trap small farmers in poverty; the EU has two chances to redress the balance.
By moving its cut-off date back by a quarter century, the FSC’s General Assembly hopes to motivate destructive forest companies to remedy past harm – but will the 'carrot' work?
The EU’s policy bioenergy policies are being repeated around the world. It is urgent that the EU realises the damage this is causing and disincentivises primary woody biomass in the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive.
As International Day of Action against Big Biomass comes around again, Fern campaigner Martin Pigeon considers individual EU Member States’ variable reliance on primary woody biomass and what a fair solution would look like.
21/10/2022
Citizens and NGOs urge EU negotiators to be bold and take advantage of this historic opportunity to stop imports of products that cause deforestation.
