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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...
Proposed measures to unlock the full potential of the plant-based sector
In January 2025, 130+ organisations called on the European Commission to propose an Action Plan for Plant-Based Foods by 2026, as recommended by the...
30/06/2025
Will the EU’s carbon removals policy remove carbon from the atmosphere, or from forests and the land?
Urgent action is needed to ensure the upcoming EU carbon removal rules for biomass-based activities are cost-effective and do...
24/06/2025
The EUDR will enter into force at the end of 2025, following a one-year delay, but there is evidence that it has already triggered political efforts to better protect forests in tropical and EU forested countries.
This...
23/06/2025
A new investigation by forest NGOs Canopée and Fern has revealed that in just two and a half years, the European Commissions showpiece Nature Credits pilot project has destroyed 38 football fields of forests, including old-growth...
17/06/2025
