Publications & Insight

Briefing Notes

Including smallholders in EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests

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

Dropping rubber from the EU’s deforestation-free supply chain regulation is not an option

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

NGO Statements

EU-Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana dialogue on sustainable cocoa production and trade

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

Blogs

As the first round of EU-Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Cocoa Talks wraps up, the way ahead is still unclear

The EU, Ghana & Cote d’Ivoire must commit to concrete actions when talks resume after autumn 2021.

14/07/2021

EU should support national civil society call to strengthen Indonesian palm oil expansion moratorium

Indonesian NGOs propose that the palm oil moratorium is expanded and strengthened.

14/07/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs urged Commissioner Sinkevičius to keep rubber in the EU due diligence regulation to halt EU-driven global deforestation

A group of NGOs wrote a letter to European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to urge him to ensure that natural rubber is kept as a key forest-risk commodity in the upcoming EU law to halt deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption.

01/07/2021

Elsewhere, due diligence moves forward

The United Kingdom and G7 members take steps toward due diligence measures

10/06/2021

Briefing Notes

Putting the Environment in Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Ensuring corporate accountability for environmental impacts

in the upcoming EU directive on sustainable corporate governance

17/05/2021

NGO recommendations on the future EU Regulation to address the forest, ecosystem, and human rights impacts associated with products placed on the EU market

The European Commission has committed to publish, in June 2021, a legislative proposal to minimise the risk of deforestation and forest degradation associated with products placed on the European Union (EU) market. This briefing...

06/05/2021

EU Law on deforestation: Key land rights risk being ignored in DG Environment’s proposal

Only one of two important upcoming legislative initiatives is expected to integrate human rights. Both must.

08/04/2021