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Many European countries rely on bioenergy to meet their renewable energy targets - with detrimental impacts on forests, air quality, the climate and the European wood industry.
Our new film - featuring interviews with MEP Bas...
22/12/2017
At the COP23 in Bonn – three years after the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) was passed – the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched the Global Platform for the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF Platform), a...
16/12/2017
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called for the EU to be producing negative emissions – sucking more carbon dioxyde out of the atmosphere than it is putting in – soon after 2050.
The European Parliament’s Energy...
The last great primeval forests in the EU are disappearing at a breathtaking speed e.g., Białowieża in Poland. Now, in Romania another drama is taking place. Trees in national parks – even those that are part of EU’s Natura 2000...
In November 2017, at COP23 in Bonn, 19 countries announced their misguided intention to use more biomass for energy production as a part of their efforts to fight climate change. The list of countries includes major energy...
The EU missed a golden chance to deploy its forests in the fight against climate change. The EU finalised carbon accounting rules on land and forests (known as the LULUCF Regulation). This is the first attempt to amend legislation...
14/12/2017
Forest restoration is our secret weapon for achieving the Paris Agreement target of limiting temperature rise to 1.5˚ C.
Fern’s new report, Return of Trees, gives examples ranging from the edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger, to...
12/12/2017
In Bonn last month delegates from around the world discussed how to implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement – which aims to tackle the greatest threat currently facing the planet.
At exactly the same time almost 6,000...
01/12/2017
Despite its own consultation on how to halt biodiversity loss showing little support for biodiversity offsetting in the EU, the European Commission has released a large and detailed study on how to implement biodiversity...
21/11/2017
Saskia Ozinga remembers Wally Menne, of southern Africa’s Timberwatch Coalition, who passed away 26 October 2017: “I first met Wally Menne at a meeting of the World Rainforest Movement in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1998. He expressed...
20/11/2017
