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The world’s forests, and the rights of many who depend on them, remained under assault in 2019.
These attacks came from many directions: from the erosion of environmental and human rights protections in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro, to the Amazon fires; from the EU’s devastating bioenergy policy, to its raft of Free Trade Agreements with forested countries to increase our insatiable consumption of products that drive deforestation; from a lack of secure tenure rights for people depending on forests for their survival, to failures of transparency and accountability in the forest sector…
23/06/2020
16/06/2020
The European Commission has ignored its legal obligation to ensure the trade agreement with the ‘Mercosur’ group of South American countries will not lead to social, economic, environmental degradation and human rights violations,...
15/06/2020
Forests and trade, Danish aid for biomass and what to expect from the German Presidency
10/06/2020
As Europe seeks to lessen its responsibility for environmental and social harm, the Dutch Parliament adds another obstacle to the controversial EU-Mercosur trade deal.
Donors should take note of well-considered alternative to forest conversion.
Positive elements in the new Draft report must not be thwarted by over-reliance on ‘negative emissions’.
Consideration of bioenergy’s external costs is fundamental for assessing compatibility of state aid.
Germany has a chance to raise climate ambition and shape three important relationships.
The push to adopt enforceable sustainability measures, starting with the cocoa sector, is gaining momentum in DG Trade.
