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EU: To End Deforestation, Protect Land Rights; New Law Should Protect Forest-Dependent Communities

The European Commission’s approach to tackle deforestation is likely to fail unless it also protects the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, who hold a large portion of the world’s forests and are key in protecting them.

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

News, NGO statements

NGOs are alarmed that EU anti-deforestation law could let soy-driven forest destruction off the hook

In a letter, a coalition of NGOs urged the EU Commission to ensure that all soy imports, including soybean cake and soy-protein concentrate (SPC), and those produced through the conversion of savannahs, are included in the scope...

08/11/2021

News, NGO statements

NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the EU can create a bioenergy policy that civil society and citizens can support.

05/11/2021

NGO statements

NGOs are alarmed at the EU for possibly abandoning the fight against illegal logging and failing forested countries

This letter was sent to Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

We are a group of environmental and human rights NGOs that work to advance forest governance and forest peoples’ rights globally. We are...

15/10/2021

NGO statements

Making TSD chapters more effective

Joint contribution to the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Review

11/10/2021

NGO statements

EU-Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana dialogue on sustainable cocoa production and trade

This letter was sent to Hon. Patrick Jerome Achi, Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire; Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Cocoa Board; H.E. Diana Acconcia, EU Ambassador to Ghana; Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto,...

10/09/2021

News, NGO statements

NGOs urged Commissioner Sinkevičius to keep rubber in the EU due diligence regulation to halt EU-driven global deforestation

A group of NGOs wrote a letter to European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to urge him to ensure that natural rubber is kept as a key forest-risk commodity in the upcoming EU law to halt deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption.

01/07/2021

NGO statements

The Forest Strategy must support people, nature and the climate, and not bow to industry pressure

This is statement signed by four pan European networks and 67 organisations from 20 countries across Europe calling on the European Commission to ensure the Forest Strategy supports people, nature and the climate.

28/06/2021