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After much upheaval, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) will now come into action at the end of 2025. As the focus turns once again to implementation, careful attention must be paid to the EUDR’s impact on smallholders.
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04/02/2025
The European Commission must ensure that benchmarking under the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) upholds the law’s ambitions and reflects human rights and deforestation risks existing in areas of...
28/01/2025
On 17 December 2024, the outgoing Biden-Harris administration unveiled a comprehensive six-point policy framework aimed at reducing US imports of products linked to deforestation – a commendable attempt to set positive things in...
17/01/2025
How does coffee drinking in Europe contribute to global deforestation?
The EU is the world's biggest consumer of coffee.
But coffee is a major driver of global deforestation, as farmers in places as disparate as Brazil, Vietnam...
14/01/2025
What does it say, what does it do?
The second-largest tropical forest on earth sits in Africa’s Congo Basin. Much of that forest grows in The Republic of Congo (RoC). The EU and RoC signed a Forest Partnership in 2022. Two years...
06/01/2025
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Liberia is a forest-rich country still recovering from a timber-trade fuelled civil war which raged from 1989 to 2003, killing over 270,000 people. Peace was finally achieved partly thanks to civil society actors...
Almost half of Cameroon is covered by fast disappearing tropical forests. In 2023, a 12-month Pulitzer Centre investigation confirmed a rise in illegal logging and forest conversion, particularly involving high-value...
Nickel is a key component in EV batteries, and Indonesia has the greatest reserves of it on earth. But extracting it in Kabaena island - where mining companies have been granted licences to 73% of the territory - is destroying...
13/12/2024
COP29 disappoints, EUDR saved, FLEGT in danger and a victory in Cameroon
12/12/2024
We can all stop holding our breaths: tripartite negotiations among the EU Commission, Parliament and Council concluded, 3 December 2024, with an agreement both to delay application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and not...
