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'Improving coherence of EU actions to avoid deforestation and human rights abuses'
15/10/2019
In its Communication on “Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests”, published on 23rd July 2019, the European Commission recognised that the EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share” of...
14/10/2019
The ‘Greenest’ Commission that Europe has ever seen?
11/10/2019
The Climate Action Summit had a host of upsides. Most came with a downside.
Logging occurs far beyond what is permitted or reported, even within Natura 2000 sites.
How do the Commissioners-designate plan to protect forests and people and halt deforestation, both within and outside the EU? Fern follows the hearings.
The Climate Action Summit may have disappointed, but the new EU Commission First Vice-President is off to a positive start.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted a repackaged, unproven standard for California. But its impact might not stop there.
NGO leaders from tropical forested nations offer first-hand accounts on what is needed for effective forest protection.
In September 2019, environmental and human rights defenders from Africa and Asia came to the EU to sound the alarm over accelerating forest loss in the Congo Basin and the Lower Mekong regions. Their message was clear, the EU...
