Following high citizen concern over deforestation, the EU worked on a regulation on deforestation-free products, which came into force in 2023.
This law – a world first - makes it illegal to import or export forest-risk products...
28/03/2024
Fern commissioned EU bioenergy and forest policy expert Duncan Brack to analyse Drax and Exergi’s proposed methodology, and he identified severe shortcomings. This analysis of Drax and Exergi’s proposal highlights the problems with relying on the very companies that would benefit from the building and operating industrial removals projects to create EU methodologies.
26/03/2024
A União Europea (UE) e os Estados-Membros assumiram um papel pioneiro na adoção de leis de Direitos Humanos e Devida Diligência Ambiental (HREDD), como a adoção, em junho de 2023, do Regulamento sobre produtos livres de...
15/03/2024
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EU citizens can celebrate a welcome break in the hostilities against environmental legislation. First, the version of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) that emerged from trilogue negotiations improves the text adopted in a fraught...
06/03/2024
Can key pieces of legislation withstand today’s dizzying political landscape?
Trilogue negotiations concluded, 20 February 2024, with a provisional deal on the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). At this late stage, the (as-yet unpublished) draft fails to address environmental and climate...
With 2024 elections approaching is the EU already backsliding on climate and nature commitments?
On 19 February 2024, the European Commission and Côte d’Ivoire signed their Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), a major step on the way to sustainable, legal forestry.
This...
Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are being crushed by the same pressures as farmers protesting in Europe.
The farmers blocking roads and bringing traffic to a halt across Europe are part of a global trend. Since January 2023,...
The final EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation was agreed in trilogue despite being stripped of its most pressing provisions.
Yesterday the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union released the final text of...
05/03/2024
