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Despite fierce lobbying from some Member States, the European Council today gave a green light for efforts to start protecting Europe’s forests. The Council adopted Conclusions on the EU Forest Strategy which gives the EU Commission the mandate to move ahead on the Strategy’s positive measures, notably a new regulation on Forest Observation, Reporting and Data Collection, which would allow for a better understanding of forest management and climate change impacts in managed forests.
15/11/2021
The world needs a great global forest restoration. But for that to work climatically, socially or ecologically it also needs a global restoration of land rights for forest dwellers. By Fred Pearce.
28/10/2021
Conversations with foresters on the drawbacks of intensive forestry and the solutions offered by close-to-nature practices
27/10/2021
Forests are the bedrock of nature, our climate, and the European quality of life and way of life. Europe has a diversity of forests, but the challenges they face go beyond borders and require a new approach, encapsulated in the...
22/10/2021
As COP26 nears, the UK is promoting Nature-Based Solutions as a get out of jail card. But planting trees without respecting local rights will do more harm than good, says Chiara Vitali.
13/10/2021
As United Nations biodiversity and climate meetings approach, the Parliament pushes for greater coherence among policies that affect conservation as well as the rights and livelihoods of people in timber producing countries.
Funded forestry actions should demonstrate sustainability, but the European Court of Auditors find it is difficult to assess anything with current means of measuring
Member State governments must be fearless in putting forests, climate and public interests dead centre in the upcoming discussion on the Forest Strategy.
16/09/2021
Why the European Commission's 2030 climate and energy proposal is unfit for forests.
27/07/2021
Recognising the importance of forests in the fight against climate change, the European Commission released its new Forest Strategy as part of the Fit for 55 package. It provides the first holistic European vision for how to...
16/07/2021