Publications

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

The human cost of overpackaging

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

Briefing Notes

Règlement de l’UE sur les produits « zéro déforestation » : en quoi consiste-t-il et pourquoi s’en soucier ?

Le Règlement de l’Union européenne sur les produits « zéro déforestation » (EUDR) dont l’adoption est prévue pour le printemps 2023, interdit aux entreprises de mettre leurs produits sur le marché européen sauf s’ils sont « zéro...

14/03/2023

Briefing Notes

Au delà du commerce

À la fin du mois d'octobre 2022, le peuple brésilien a élu Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva comme leur nouveau président, mettant fin au mandat de Bolsonaro. Les partisans de l'accord de libre-échange (ALE) Mercosur conclu avec l'Union...

01/02/2023