Publications

News, NGO Statements

Rights-based NGOs urge the EU to ensure a smallholder-inclusive Regulation on deforestation-free products

Fern and four other NGOs have joined together to call on the European Parliament and Council to consider key recommendations for a just transition for smallholders, as part of the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products.

11/03/2022

News, NGO Statements

Civil Society calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen the Proposed Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products

NGOs make 16 recommendations to the European Parliament and European Union (EU) Member States to preserve and improve the essential elements of the Commission’s proposal for a strong and ambitious EU anti-deforestation law.

03/02/2022

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

Making TSD chapters more effective

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

11/10/2021

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

NGO Statements

Rehausser l’ambition : Renforcer le rôle de l'UE en faveur de la biodiversité et du climat grâce au FLEGT et aux partenariats pour les forêts

Cette déclaration résume le point de vue des organisations de la société civile (OSC) d'Asie et du Pacifique, des Amériques, d'Europe et d'Afrique centrale et de l’Ouest. Ces organisations luttent contre le commerce illégal de...

27/04/2021

NGO Statements

Pour être au service des peuples, de la biodiversité et du climat, les programmes de développement de l’UE doivent tenir compte de toutes les voix

L’Union européenne (UE) est le plus grand donateur au monde et un acteur politique d’envergure doté d’un important pouvoir d’influence sur les politiques mondiales. Elle est consciente du rôle essentiel que joue la société civile...

14/04/2021

NGO Statements

Stop EU-Mercosur Coalition Statement

We, the undersigned organisations, call on political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to stop the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.

The EU-Mercosur agreement belongs to an out-dated 20th Century model of trade that has failed the...

15/03/2021

NGO Statements

Direct threat to Indigenous territories of Mato Grosso and Brazil

Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020 

Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...

26/06/2020