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There are parallels with the problematic Mercosur-EU trade agreement as Indonesian NGOs reveal the lack of an impact assessment and concerns about human rights impacts.
13/10/2021
Joint contribution to the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Review
11/10/2021
When:
Tuesday 12 October, 13:00 – 17:00 (Brussels - CET).
Interpretation in English, French, Russian and Spanish
Background:
With Members of the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi, Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, and Marc...
29/09/2021
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In Mid-December 2021 the European Commission is due to release a regulatory proposal to minimise the European Union’s (EU) deforestation and forest degradation footprint. In advance of this draft proposal, six NGOs have come...
21/09/2021
Increased deforestation and farmer poverty would likely result from Commission’s failure to include this commodity in due diligence rules right from the start.
16/09/2021
Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.
Member State governments must be fearless in putting forests, climate and public interests dead centre in the upcoming discussion on the Forest Strategy.
Ironically, the future of the programme that insisted on openness in partner countries’ forest sectors is frustratingly opaque.
Continued lack of transparency about EU plans to fight the import of illegal timber
15/09/2021
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
