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European companies seem to flip flop on the usefulness of having harmonised information systems to monitor their forestry activities, depending on the law being discussed and who is being asked to deliver it. Representatives from...
16/10/2024
A recent report by Estonia’s Court of Auditors has raised questions about the meteoric growth of Europe’s largest producer of wood pellets, Graanul Invest (GI). Biomass subsidies from the EU and its Member States were thought to...
18/09/2024
In June 2024, a cutting-edge analysis published in Nature Communications confirmed tree harvesting as the main driver of increasing disturbances to European forests; it also highlighted that harvesting magnifies risks of canopy...
09/07/2024
It has provoked fierce debate, and the final decision went to the wire, but by the slimmest of margins, on 17 June 2024 EU Environment Ministers threw a lifeline to the continent’s besieged forests and approved the Nature...
21/06/2024
In May 2024, the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), representing more than 600 scientific institutions active in forest research, published International Forest Governance: A critical review of trends,...
11/06/2024
As politicians across the EU look to dismantle the environmental progress of recent years, the highest courts, at least in Baltic Member States, are giving reason to hope: rising above the in-fighting and taking their role as the...
07/05/2024
Recent relations between certain farming unions and environmentalists have been all too hostile, goaded by political forces that find it expedient to distract and cultivate grievance. The Commission’s initiative to take the heat...
02/04/2024
Overlogging and climate change are causing the collapse of European forest carbon sinks, and the EU risks not even meeting weak 2030 Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) targets. There is therefore huge concern that...
07/02/2024
The proposed Forest Monitoring Law is a great step forward, but to truly deliver change on the ground it must also include a requirement for positive strategic action.
12/12/2023
A new mapping system enhances forest data transparency.
14/11/2023