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In recent years, forests moved to the heart of EU policymaking, but now a range of forces are pushing back against all that’s been achieved. This is a moment of reckoning and we must hold tight to our founding values, writes...
05/12/2025
The companies, investors, non-governmental and civil society organisations represented in this statement stand united in strong opposition to any further delay or weakening of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
The EUDR was...
03/12/2025
Yesterday, European Environment Commissioner Roswall presented the revised European Bioeconomy Strategy. Martin Pigeon and Sydney Vennin offer their initial impressions:
Business as usual
There are few meaningful changes to...
28/11/2025
26 November 2025, Brussels – The European Parliament today voted to delay the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) before it has even entered into application, and opened the door to revising it next year. This follows the approach...
26/11/2025
Today, 10 November 2025, marks day one of the 30th United Nations climate conference (COP30) – ‘the Forest COP’ (or the COP of truth) – held at the ‘gateway to the Amazon’ in Belém, Brazil.
Fern and several partners are there,...
10/11/2025
Since September 2025, the EU has set itself on a course to diminish the climate ambition of its Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sectors in response to industry pressure.
Early on 5 November 2025, even the...
The EU in-fighting over the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), adopted in 2023 with overwhelming support in the European Parliament, continues.
Austria has led a charge to “stop the clock” on the legislation and “reopen” – i.e.,...
Fern partner A Rocha Ghana sounds the alarm on illegal small-scale gold-mining that threatens communities, forests and water resources.
Ghana is struggling to control rampant illegal, small-scale gold-mining that is threatening...
The TFFF was meant to be a milestone in protecting forests, but it’s already in danger of being a damp squib. To fulfil its ambitions, Indigenous and local peoples must be given a central role, writes Tyala Ifwanga.
The launch...
In an open letter to the Delegates of the 30th United Nations climate conference (COP30), 49 NGOs from all around the globe highlight the crucial role that Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities play in...
07/11/2025
