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The rumours were swirling for months, but when the news broke on October 2, it came abruptly and without warning.
Just a week earlier, the European Commission insisted that it had no plans to delay implementing the EU...
08/10/2024
Last week, the Commission proposed to postpone the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by a year and signalled that it intends to “step up dialogue” with partner countries.
The EU has already started partnership...
07/10/2024
Brussels | Today, the European Commission proposed to postpone the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by a year, based on the “feedback” received by international partners.
This comes after Ursula von der...
02/10/2024
The coffee industry is facing a pivotal moment as new mandatory sustainability regulations come into effect across Europe.
Even though these regulations establish a level playing field that prioritises human rights and...
01/10/2024
How sustainable is the wood burned in EU power plants, which EU taxpayers are paying billions of euros for every year?
The report Mass Imbalance reveals that the EU does not really know, because it cannot know.
The reason? Its...
25/09/2024
The acute problems blighting the cocoa trade in Côte d’Ivoire are at risk of spreading like a contagion into Central Africa. But the EUDR can help smallholder growers understand the broader context in which they operate and better...
18/09/2024
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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...
On 4 September 2024, the European Commission published the results of its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture, an innovative exercise that, in a period of bitter strife, gathered farm lobby groups and NGOs around a...
The backlash against the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) is continuing into autumn. Several vocal EU Member States, highly forested countries, and the director of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have insisted that the...
Busting myths around EU efforts to end deforestation.
In December 2022, the EU agreed to adopt the Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR), which aims to tackle global deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU...
29/08/2024
