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NGO Statements

NGO letter calling for EU Strategy on supply-side measures to complement the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

On Friday 22 April 2022, a group of NGOs including Fern wrote to Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Development and Cooperation, Ministers of the Environment, and Ministers of Agriculture of the Members States of the...

22/04/2022

NGO Statements

Recommendations for the effective implementation of TSD Chapters

As a powerful trade player, and one that has developed strong and cooperative relationships with its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners, the EU is well placed to use its market power to improve the implementation and enforcement...

29/03/2022

NGO Statements

Open Letter: Include ambitious restoration targets in the EU Nature Restoration Law

An open letter to the Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, on behalf of environmental and social justice organisations in Sweden, Finland, Estonia and across Europe.

21/03/2022

News, NGO Statements

Rights-based NGOs urge the EU to ensure a smallholder-inclusive Regulation on deforestation-free products

Fern and four other NGOs have joined together to call on the European Parliament and Council to consider key recommendations for a just transition for smallholders, as part of the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products.

11/03/2022

News, NGO Statements

Joint statement to ban Russian wood and support Ukraine

Joint statement of Ukrainian, Belarusian, EU, UK and US environmental and human rights NGOs and activists 

Russia is engaging in an unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine which is already having a high toll on citizens. We...

03/03/2022

NGO Statements

OPEN LETTER: CALL TO UPHOLD STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS FOR TRACEABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN FORTHCOMING EU REGULATION

Ahead of your meeting on 17 March we would like to bring to your attention key issues which have recently been raised by the soya industry in their response to the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products. The current...

01/03/2022

News, NGO Statements

Civil Society calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen the Proposed Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products

NGOs make 16 recommendations to the European Parliament and European Union (EU) Member States to preserve and improve the essential elements of the Commission’s proposal for a strong and ambitious EU anti-deforestation law.

03/02/2022

News, NGO Statements, Press Releases

UE: Para acabar com o desmatamento, proteja os direitos à terra; Nova lei deveria proteger comunidades que dependem da floresta

A emblemática legislação sobre produtos livres de desmatamento da União Europeia (UE) deveria exigir que as empresas respeitem os direitos das comunidades tradicionais sobre seus territórios, ou colocará em risco o cumprimento de seus objetivos, afirmaram hoje mais de 191 organizações indígenas, ambientais e de direitos humanos de 62 países em uma carta aberta às autoridades da UE.

27/01/2022

News, NGO Statements

NGOs send an Open Letter to German Minister Habeck: "We must end EU incentives for woody biomass in energy production"

A coalition of 25+ NGOs wrote to Germany’s new Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck to end the EU incentives for woody biomass burning in energy production.

23/12/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGO recommendations on deforestation regulation

A group of 55+ NGOs wrote to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginius Sinkevičius regarding the forthcoming proposal for EU legislation to regulate the placing on the EU market of commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation.

10/11/2021