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Public opposition to biomass burning is based on a variety of negative impacts.
09/07/2020
Indonesia and EU negotiators are continuing trade discussions. The EU must ensure respect for human rights and environment.
Can momentum for cleaning up the EU’s supply chains avoid reinforcing the injustices that helped to cause the problem?
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Fern and the Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) Working Group of the European Parliament, a cross-party group of Members if the European Parliament (MEPs), co-organised the event to discuss...
03/07/2020
Tree planting schemes have always been popular, but never more so than today. There is a long, painful history of bad tree plantation projects mainly in the Global South, but also in the North, where tree planting projects have...
01/07/2020
Time overdue for the EU to end its role in Brazil’s environmental and social crimes
Negative Emissions is one of the terms used by climate scientists in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Other terms include Carbon Dioxide Removal...
30/06/2020
Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020
Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...
26/06/2020
The European Union (EU) has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. This will require us to both drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon dioxide removals – negative emissions.
This briefing shows why...
25/06/2020
On June 2020, the Hungarian Constitutional Court improved the nature conservation and biodiversity objectives of forested Natura 2000 sites. Hungarian civil society organisations welcomed the decision and hope that it will improve...
24/06/2020
