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On 19 February 2024, the European Commission and Côte d’Ivoire signed their Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), a major step on the way to sustainable, legal forestry.
This...
06/03/2024
Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are being crushed by the same pressures as farmers protesting in Europe.
The farmers blocking roads and bringing traffic to a halt across Europe are part of a global trend. Since January 2023,...
The final EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation was agreed in trilogue despite being stripped of its most pressing provisions.
Yesterday the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union released the final text of...
05/03/2024
At this point, most Europeans can agree that greater consensus in EU farming policy would be a wonderful thing. That the Commission launched a Strategic Farm dialogue process on 25 January 2024 is therefore welcome, even if the...
07/02/2024
Chocolate’s complex supply chain faces no shortage of challenges, some longstanding and entrenched, others that arise due to implementation of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). Amsterdam Cocoa Week (5-11...
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...
As the backlash against laws protecting nature intensifies across Europe, Augustyn Mikos charts how intense public pressure helped push forests centre stage in his country - and the lessons this holds for the rest of the EU.
The United Nations’ 28th Climate Conference (COP28) has concluded in Dubai, including the first Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement. The Parties committed to equitably “transition away” from fossil fuels, and to halt and...
10/01/2024
Increasing civil society and smallholder capacity and participation is essential to the success of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement and implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation.
12/12/2023
The EU must use the tools at its disposal to encourage Cameroon to save Ebo forest
