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As United Nations biodiversity and climate meetings approach, the Parliament pushes for greater coherence among policies that affect conservation as well as the rights and livelihoods of people in timber producing countries.
13/10/2021
Funded forestry actions should demonstrate sustainability, but the European Court of Auditors find it is difficult to assess anything with current means of measuring
There are parallels with the problematic Mercosur-EU trade agreement as Indonesian NGOs reveal the lack of an impact assessment and concerns about human rights impacts.
When:
Tuesday 12 October, 13:00 – 17:00 (Brussels - CET).
Interpretation in English, French, Russian and Spanish
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With Members of the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi, Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, and Marc...
29/09/2021
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In Mid-December 2021 the European Commission is due to release a regulatory proposal to minimise the European Union’s (EU) deforestation and forest degradation footprint. In advance of this draft proposal, six NGOs have come...
21/09/2021
Increased deforestation and farmer poverty would likely result from Commission’s failure to include this commodity in due diligence rules right from the start.
16/09/2021
Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.
Member State governments must be fearless in putting forests, climate and public interests dead centre in the upcoming discussion on the Forest Strategy.
Ironically, the future of the programme that insisted on openness in partner countries’ forest sectors is frustratingly opaque.
Continued lack of transparency about EU plans to fight the import of illegal timber
15/09/2021