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How rights-based forest restoration can empower communities, recover biodiversity, and tackle the climate crisis
Forest restoration is gaining traction around the world as a key strategy to mitigate climate change and...
13/11/2020
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10/11/2020
Significant developments with the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement in recent weeks will reveal whether the possibility of the deal being placed in the deep-freeze is enough to unlock a change of course in Brazil.
After the...
Ireland’s managed forests emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) than they store − a bizarre perversion of what forests normally do: absorb CO2. This startling revelation is found in Ireland’s National Forest Accounting Plan, required as...
The European Commission have published their work programme for 2021, and as the Commission prepares broadly “to shift from strategy to delivery,” several areas are of particular importance to climate and forests.
An amendment...
On 22 October 2020, the European Parliament sent a strong signal to the European Commission by adopting MEP Delara Burckhardt’s report, ‘An EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation’, in plenary.
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By 2025, European forests are likely to hold 18% less carbon than in the early 2000s, according to disturbing new information published today by the European Commission.
The new figures have been released under the EU’s Land Use,...
29/10/2020
The webinar took place on 19 November 2020 – 9h-13h Brussels time
Recordings of the event with interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Russian are available.
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Faced with the urgent need to restore...
28/10/2020
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Why partnership agreements should be at the heart of EU efforts to end deforestationConverting forest land for agricultural crops is the main cause of tropical deforestation. The EU is a major importer of forest risk commodities...
23/10/2020
