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How do the Commissioners-designate plan to protect forests and people and halt deforestation, both within and outside the EU? Fern follows the hearings.
11/10/2019
The Climate Action Summit may have disappointed, but the new EU Commission First Vice-President is off to a positive start.
NGO leaders from tropical forested nations offer first-hand accounts on what is needed for effective forest protection.
Poor forest management also needs to shoulder some of the blame.
18/09/2019
Tropical forests consumed by fire and colossal hurricanes show that the time for half-measures to address climate change and forest destruction is long past.
Council and Parliament urged to get involved to fix oversights and reinforce ambition in new forest Communication.
Hope remains: the deal can still be rejected, as a first step toward requiring that companies and consumers do better.
The Finnish Presidency of the European Council could be a chance to clean up EU supply chains.
09/07/2019
The Commission has prioritised trade and profit; it is now up to the European and national parliaments to set a more positive course for human rights and forests.
As European temperatures soared, the European Council and Member States avoided concrete action on the climate emergency. We demand better.
