Publications

Briefing Notes

En qué consiste el Reglamento de la UE sobre productos libres de deforestación y por qué es importante

El Reglamento de la Unión Europea (UE) sobre productos libres de deforestación (EUDR, por sus siglas en inglés), cuya adopción está prevista para la próxima primavera, prohíbe a las empresas introducir productos en el mercado de...

14/03/2023

Briefing Notes

Es más que solo comercio

A finales de octubre de 2022, el pueblo brasileño votó en contra del Presidente Bolsonaro y eligió a Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Los defensores del acuerdo de libre comercio entre la Unión Europea (UE) y el Mercosur confían en que...

01/02/2023

Briefing Notes

An EU strategic framework for working with countries to achieve deforestation-free production

Why it is needed, and what it could look like.

23/01/2023

Briefing Notes

Europe's Dark Winter

How will people and forests survive the energy crisis?

16/11/2022

Briefing Notes

COP27: Congo Basin countries must increase ambition to protect the world’s second green lung

The November 2022 Climate Change Conference (COP27), held in Egypt was the last milestone before the first Global Stocktake (GST) scheduled for 2023. The GST aims to assess the progress made in implementing Nationally Determined...

09/11/2022

Reports

A gendered perspective of the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

The EU Regulation on deforestation-free products aims to curb deforestation and forest degradation driven by imports of forest and ecosystem-risk commodities. It is expected to be adopted in 2023.

This new report analyses drafts...

29/09/2022

Briefing Notes

A carbon bomb in the heart of Europe

Will the EU biomass loophole give a lifeline to energy giant EPH’s coal power plants?

08/09/2022

Reports

Ten things the legislative proposal on EU forest observation, reporting and data collection needs to consider

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

Palm oil production, consumption and trade patterns: The outlook from an EU perspective

Palm oil is used in nearly everything, from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick. It is also used in animal feed and as a biofuel, especially in Indonesia and the European Union (EU).

Unt...

15/06/2022

News, Briefing Notes

Reglamento de la UE sobre productos libres de deforestación

Análisis de Fern sobre el proyecto d e informe del ponente del Parlamento Europeo

20/04/2022