Publications

Reports

How to tackle labour rights in the EU-Vietnam wood furniture trade

Vietnam is one of the world’s leading wood processing hubs and the European Union is a high value, strategic market for its wood and wooden furniture. Around 600,000 people are employed in wood processing and furniture manufacturing in Vietnam. Little has been said about labour rights in Vietnam’s wood sector.  This report aims to rectify this.  It is based on in-depth interviews with a sample of 40 workers from various sections of different wood processing and furniture manufacturing companies supplying to the EU. 

07/11/2023

Reports

Stemming the tide

The potential of forests to supply the European bioeconomy

26/10/2023

Reports

Zero waste heroes

The European businesses making reuse a reality

29/06/2023

Briefing Notes

Low carbon, high risk

Lessons for the EU from Label Bas-Carbone forestry projects in France

31/05/2023

Duped

Every year an estimated 5,000 migrant seasonal workers come to Sweden to do the back-breaking work of clearing landscapes and planting trees. They make up 85 – 90 per cent of the workforce and are employed by firms sub-contracted by the companies that dominate Sweden’s forest sector.

17/05/2023

Unwrapping a disaster

Consumers are concerned about rising packaging levels. Dealing with outsized delivery boxes is frustrating. Discarding dirty food containers is inconvenient. Deciphering recycling symbols can be bewildering. 

26/04/2023

Forests in the Nature Restoration Law

European forests are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate with only 14 per cent of protected forest habitats in good condition. Intensive management is undermining sustainability.

To reverse this we must:

strictly protect...

20/04/2023

Briefing Notes

Why the EU Deforestation Regulation won’t sugar coat the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

In June 2019, after more than 20 years of tortuous negotiations, a bilateral trade agreement was agreed between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur bloc of nations - Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay (European Union...

20/04/2023

Briefing Notes, NGO Statements

EU rules on packaging

NGO perspectives on the urgent need to reduce paper packaging

14/04/2023

NGO Statements

Certifying EU activities to increase carbon removals from land

For agricultural and forested land, the aims of the European Commission’s proposed voluntary EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) include:

Increasing carbon removals by establishing EU criteria and methods to...

22/03/2023