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In its Communication on “Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests”, published on 23rd July 2019, the European Commission recognised that the EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share” of...
14/10/2019
Ursula von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, has promised to deliver a European Green Deal in her first 100 days in office. For such a deal to truly tackle the challenges of climate change, it will need to ensure healthy growing forests inside and outside of Europe that are good for people, our climate and nature.
25/09/2019
A new reality has unfolded in Brazil in the 100 days since Jair Bolsonaro became leader of the world’s fourth largest democracy.
Incursions by armed invaders on Indigenous Peoples’ lands have surged.
An assault on the country’s...
10/04/2019
Natural rubber plantations emerged as a significant source of deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the first decade of the 21st century.
Three quarters of the world’s natural rubber production goes to...
25/10/2018
Ce résumé du rapport de l'alliance CLARA examine comment le secteur foncier peut contribuer à une action climatique. Il apporte une alternative à la question de savoir comment pouvons-nous atteindre l’objectif de l'accord de Paris...
15/10/2018
La Société Financière des Caoutchoucs (Socfin) est l'un des plus gros propriétaires indépendants de plantations au monde. Le groupe exploite environ 187 000 hectares de palmiers à huile et d'hévéas en Asie et en Afrique, où il est...
20/09/2018
Le cacao est crucial pour l’économie du Ghana, mais il est également un important moteur de déforestation. La stratégie nationale REDD+ du Ghana identifie l’expansion agricole comme responsable d’au moins 50% de la déforestation,...
10/07/2018
The purpose of this discussion paper, which draws on a detailed Fern report as well as an analysis we will soon be publishing, is to show the contours of a way forward. We intend it to start the conversation about how regulatory...
25/06/2018
Cattle and deforestation
Beef production is the biggest agricultural driver of global forest loss. Forests in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, all members of the Mercosur trade bloc, are being destroyed on an epic scale to make...
26/05/2018
Cocoa consumption is a major cause of deforestation – estimated to have destroyed an area of forest the size of Belgium between 1988 and 2008.
Other problems include endemic use of child labour, local tenure conflicts, and...
14/02/2018
