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News, NGO Statements

NGOs send an Open Letter to German Minister Habeck: "We must end EU incentives for woody biomass in energy production"

A coalition of 25+ NGOs wrote to Germany’s new Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck to end the EU incentives for woody biomass burning in energy production.

23/12/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGO recommendations on deforestation regulation

A group of 55+ NGOs wrote to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginius Sinkevičius regarding the forthcoming proposal for EU legislation to regulate the placing on the EU market of commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation.

10/11/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs are alarmed that EU anti-deforestation law could let soy-driven forest destruction off the hook

In a letter, a coalition of NGOs urged the EU Commission to ensure that all soy imports, including soybean cake and soy-protein concentrate (SPC), and those produced through the conversion of savannahs, are included in the scope...

08/11/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the EU can create a bioenergy policy that civil society and citizens can support.

05/11/2021

NGO Statements

Les ONG s'alarment de l'abandon possible par l'UE de la lutte contre l'exploitation illégale des forêts et de ses engagements envers les pays forestiers.

Cette lettre a été envoyée au Premier ministre Janez Janša et au Ministre Jean-Yves Le Drian. 

Nous sommes une coalition d'organisations non gouvernementales de défense de l'environnement et des droits humains qui vous écrivons...

15/10/2021

NGO Statements

Making TSD chapters more effective

Joint contribution to the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Review

11/10/2021

NGO Statements

Dialogue UE-Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana sur la production et le commerce durables du cacao

Cette lettre a été envoyée à M. Patrick Jérôme Achi, Premier ministre de Côte d'Ivoire ; M. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, président-directeur général du Ghana Cocoa Board ; Son Excellence Diana Acconcia, ambassadrice de l'Union européenne...

10/09/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs urged Commissioner Sinkevičius to keep rubber in the EU due diligence regulation to halt EU-driven global deforestation

A group of NGOs wrote a letter to European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to urge him to ensure that natural rubber is kept as a key forest-risk commodity in the upcoming EU law to halt deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption.

01/07/2021

NGO Statements

The Forest Strategy must support people, nature and the climate, and not bow to industry pressure

This is statement signed by four pan European networks and 67 organisations from 20 countries across Europe calling on the European Commission to ensure the Forest Strategy supports people, nature and the climate.

29/06/2021

NGO Statements

The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

An opportunity to help meet climate and biodiversity objectives

28/05/2021