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What does the EU's "simplification" agenda mean for the world's forests?
03/04/2025
The ongoing debate surrounding the Forest Monitoring Law (FML) has been described as an “infected debate”, highlighting the contentious and polarised nature of a discussion around a simple topic: how to show timely, improved...
Alice Thuault, executive director of Brazilian NGO Instituto Centro de Vida, describes a legislative attack on companies making extra efforts to rein in deforestation.
Using the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) as a pretext,...
On 19 March 2025 the Association of Forest and Nature Reserve Owners (VBNE) withdrew their appeal against a lower-court ruling that protects Dutch forests and biodiversity from clear-cutting. The groundbreaking decision of the...
Indonesian CSO Pusaka offer insight into grassroots-level impacts to encourage the EU to use the EUDR and other trade instruments to help.
Despite the political upheaval surrounding the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR),...
05/03/2025
Fossil gas is largely supplied to the EU by foreign authoritarian regimes (Norway being an exception), and biomass use at the industrial scale destroys forests and undermines the EU’s land sink. Increasingly, however,...
Despite forests covering almost 40% of land in the EU, we don’t have easily accessible, real-time information about what is happening to them. Instead, we get assessments every five years that send worrying signals on the state of...
The European Commission released its Vision for Agriculture and Food on 19 February 2025, brushing aside the thoughtful work of a months-long multi-stakeholder dialogue that the Commission convened a year ago. Although the Vision...
EU U-turn undermines environmental progress
Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere than what we currently let ecosystems do....
04/03/2025
