Indonesia and EU negotiators are continuing trade discussions. The EU must ensure respect for human rights and environment.
09/07/2020
The world’s forests, and the rights of many who depend on them, remained under assault in 2019.
These attacks came from many directions: from the erosion of environmental and human rights protections in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro, to the Amazon fires; from the EU’s devastating bioenergy policy, to its raft of Free Trade Agreements with forested countries to increase our insatiable consumption of products that drive deforestation; from a lack of secure tenure rights for people depending on forests for their survival, to failures of transparency and accountability in the forest sector…
23/06/2020
Perrine Fournier analyses the French-Dutch call for making trade more sustainable in EU free trade agreements.
20/05/2020
Perrine Fournier explains how the EU should react.
27/04/2020
How European Union policy could remove deforestation and human rights violations from the palm oil trade with Indonesia
26/03/2020
Indonesia has launched a new legal package that includes extreme attacks on Indigenous rights and environmental protections. The EU must respond.
09/03/2020
'Improving coherence of EU actions to avoid deforestation and human rights abuses'
15/10/2019
The European Union and Indonesia are currently negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Both Parties have clear objectives for the trade deal, from increased sales in machinery and transport equipment, to...
07/12/2018
As a new round of free trade negotiations between the European Union and Indonesia begins in Brussels, improving forest governance should be central to any agreement.
Palm oil has had a lot of bad press. Shocked by numerous land...
10/07/2018
