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After much upheaval, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) will now come into action at the end of 2025. As the focus turns once again to implementation, careful attention must be paid to the EUDR’s impact on smallholders.
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04/02/2025
The European Commission must ensure that benchmarking under the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) upholds the law’s ambitions and reflects human rights and deforestation risks existing in areas of...
28/01/2025
How does coffee drinking in Europe contribute to global deforestation?
The EU is the world's biggest consumer of coffee.
But coffee is a major driver of global deforestation, as farmers in places as disparate as Brazil, Vietnam...
14/01/2025
What does it say, what does it do?
The second-largest tropical forest on earth sits in Africa’s Congo Basin. Much of that forest grows in The Republic of Congo (RoC). The EU and RoC signed a Forest Partnership in 2022. Two years...
06/01/2025
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The context
Liberia is a forest-rich country still recovering from a timber-trade fuelled civil war which raged from 1989 to 2003, killing over 270,000 people. Peace was finally achieved partly thanks to civil society actors...
Almost half of Cameroon is covered by fast disappearing tropical forests. In 2023, a 12-month Pulitzer Centre investigation confirmed a rise in illegal logging and forest conversion, particularly involving high-value...
Without meaningful and inclusive partnerships with producer countries to tackle the root causes of deforestation, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) risks cleaning EU supply chains but powerless to address wider deforestation....
05/12/2024
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which entered into force in June 2023, has undergone sustained political attacks since the start of 2024, leading the European Commission to propose delaying its application by 12 months. ...
02/12/2024
Summary
Forest area is increasing, but European forests have low resilience impacting their ability to buffer climate impacts, sustain other plants and animals, and remain a respite for Europeans. Forest sector employment is...
20/11/2024
EU flagship BECCS project will burn forests and public capital but won’t help the climate
As part of its climate action, the EU is preparing to scale up carbon dioxide removal technologies, to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the...
12/11/2024
