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It has been a long time coming, but on 18 August 2025 Ghana officially launched its Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licences, the first African nation and only the second EU FLEGT partner country to do so.
Th...
17/09/2025
In this position paper, we join Oxfam, Fair Trade International, the European Milk Board and 14 other organisations calling for the EU to ban a series of unfair trading practices (UTP) in the agricultural and food sector,...
01/09/2025
The European Union’s forest carbon sink has declined dramatically over the last decade. The factors driving it are the subject of ongoing and intense debate.
This briefing summarises the well-documented causes of this decline:...
01/08/2025
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation draws attention to a situation now playing out in Sweden – among the EU’s most forested Member States – that could model truly sustainable forestry. Or fall short.
With various forces...
29/07/2025
Back in October 2023, thanks to a historically high voter turnout, Poland’s electorate swept Donald Tusk’s Civil Platform party (part of the European Peoples Party (EPP)) into office, largely on the basis of its bold environmental...
10/07/2025
On 17 June 2025, the European Parliament (EP) plenary voted to terminate the EU-Cameroon Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). The unilateral nature of this step – the...
Civil society across the world are convening in the hope that the 30th United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) will be “the forest COP” and move away from the petrostate negotiations of previous years. This hope persists despite...
Augustyn Mikos, of civil society organisation Pracownia, in Poland, discusses a new Polish decree that significantly reduces financial support to bioenergy
Despite instigating a certain amount of environmental mayhem during its ...
In a letter to European policymakers, the VOCAL Network have expressed deep concern over recent delays and proposed alterations to the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), particularly discussions surrounding a...
09/07/2025
Governments are facing pressure to deliver on LULUCF targets, and the wood industry is aggressively marketing wood products as a climate solution, while paradoxically calling for the ambition of forest climate targets to be...
