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On 5 October 2020 the UK government closed its first round of consultation on a proposed law designed to prevent forests and other important natural areas from being illegally converted into agricultural land (FW 258). This...
13/10/2020
Britons, on average, devour 700,000 tonnes of chocolate a year, or three bars a week per person. But how many of them are aware of the provenance of their chocolate, or its true cost?
Most chocolate sold in the UK is made from...
09/10/2020
With lockdown eased, preventing the spread of disease is shifts to individual responsibility.
23/07/2020
European countries are the world’s largest importers of the cocoa beans whose production is devastating rainforests in West Africa and driving millions of children into child labour. To prevent this, chocolate companies and NGOs...
05/05/2020
Companies will back producer countries’ bold move to raise cocoa prices, and are also showing support for EU regulation.
13/11/2019
Des dirigeants de la société civile des pays forestiers tropicaux s’expriment sur ce qu’il est nécessaire de faire pour une protection plus efficace des forêts.
11/10/2019
Ghana is poised to become the first African country and the second country in the world to issue FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) licences. Officials from the EU and Ghana’s Ministry of Land and Natural...
05/02/2019
Belgium has called for “an ambitious [EU] action plan against deforestation and forest degradation before the end of the current mandate of the European Commission”, as part of a new Belgian initiative on cocoa launched on 5...
18/12/2018
Comment l'UE peut aider à la protection des forêts selon la société civile
Partout dans le monde, près de 1,6 milliards de personnes dépendent des forêts pour leur survie. Et pourtant, au cours de la seule année 2017, 15,8...
25/07/2018
Global chocolate companies have called for governments to look at “potential regulatory measures” to address deforestation and poverty in cocoa production, according to the Berlin Declaration agreed at the close of the World Cocoa...
14/05/2018
