Publications & Insight

Briefing notes

The shocking truth about EU forests in numbers

By 2050, the EU forest sink will be halved if current management practices continue.

80% of EU forests with protected status are in an "unfavourable" or "bad" condition.

EU rules only require 36% of all trees burned for...

21/02/2020

Briefing notes

Making the European Green Deal work for International Partnerships

The European Commission’s Green Deal can help solving the international climate and biodiversity emergencies by shaping stronger and more sustainable partnerships with tropical forested countries. But this will only succeed, if it...

19/02/2020

Blogs

European Forests, European Lives: Exhibition reveals forests' importance to Europeans

Throughout 2019, Luka Tomac collected stories from Germany, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia, bringing them together for an exhibition at the European Commission “European Forests, European lives” which puts faces to Europe’s forest stories to remind policy makers that there is a huge difference between tree plantations and real healthy forests. It aims to convince them that our forests deserve to not just be protected, but to also be restored.

14/02/2020

Forest watch

Forest Watch 252 - February 2020

European Parliament calls for rules to end imported deforestation but concerns about Indigenous Peoples rights in Brazil

13/02/2020

Blogs

Tree-planting is the talk of Davos: why this dangerous narrative must be challenged

Faced with a momentous challenge, politicians and business are recycling a failed solution. Caritas France proposes a more promising one that tackles both climate change and hunger.

13/02/2020

News

The Congo Basin Forest Partnership: a powerful force to save Central Africa’s forests?

German facilitation of the Partnership could set an innovative course.

13/02/2020

News

France’s forest strategy: fighting to end the climate crisis or to increase logging?

A new report challenges France’s strategy to fight climate change with forests and reveals the actions they should take instead.

13/02/2020

News

European Parliament calls for rules to end imported deforestation

Several options are under consideration, including binding rules to ensure products on EU markets are deforestation-free.

13/02/2020

News

Beyond belief: Bolsonaro appoints evangelist to Brazil’s FUNAI

The appointment to the the Brazilian government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to Indigenous Peoples casts a shadow on the eventual EU-Mercosur deal.

13/02/2020

Reports

Forest management and climate change: a new approach to the french mitigation strategy

This new report challenges whether France’s long-term forest strategy will fight climate change. The report shows the flaws in the French plan to produce heat and electricity from burning wood and offers an alternative vision where forests can play their role in fighting the climate breakdown, become more resilient to future shocks and still providing for timber needs.

03/02/2020