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It has provoked fierce debate, and the final decision went to the wire, but by the slimmest of margins, on 17 June 2024 EU Environment Ministers threw a lifeline to the continent’s besieged forests and approved the Nature...
21/06/2024
NGOs are denouncing the Republic of Congo’s (RoC) decision to violate international and domestic obligations concerning the Congolese national park of Conkouati-Douli by allowing oil exploration in its fragile ecosystem....
11/06/2024
Côte d’Ivoire’s socio-economic wellbeing is intricately intertwined with cocoa, which creates 14% of its gross domestic product, and supplies 45% of global cocoa production – making it the largest cocoa producer in the world. But...
Since the EU’s adoption of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) in late 2022, the Malaysian Government and others have pushed back, ostensibly over the impact that the Regulation could have on smallholders....
In May 2024, the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), representing more than 600 scientific institutions active in forest research, published International Forest Governance: A critical review of trends,...
Preliminary results from the EU elections, which took place from 6-9 June 2024, have delivered a notable decrease in green and liberal parties. It remains to be seen with whom von der Leyen will seek an alliance, but her choice...
The European election results are in. What do they mean for forests?
European parties fail to promote nature and climate as election nears
07/05/2024
Despite the efforts, the endless talks, and the international agreements, large-scale industrial deforestation continues unabated in Cameroon, nudged along by the Cameroonian government and under the tolerant gaze of international...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) released (March 2024) its yearly overview of renewable energy deployment in the EU for 2022: 23% of the energy consumed in the EU during 2022 came from renewable sources, an increase driven...
