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Social and environmental protections are urgently needed in the Commission’s Critical Raw Materials proposal.
11/04/2023
If the UK adopts new rules for financing forest-risk sectors, they could offer practical insights the EU could learn from.
Close to nature forestry is an alternative to intensive forestry, a sustainable way of managing forests.
04/04/2023
In the early hours of today, European Union (EU) negotiators concluded negotiations over the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). The outcome will not reduce the EU’s wood burning addiction to comply with its renewable targets. It...
30/03/2023
This letter was sent to Representatives of the Swedish Presidency, EU Environment Ministers and Permanent Representations. The European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Rapporteurs and shadows of...
27/03/2023
Europe is desperate to secure critical raw materials for the green energy and digital transitions. But mining must not happen on Sámi land without free, prior and informed consent from the Sámi people, says Karin Nutti Pilflykt.
24/03/2023
In November 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for an European Union (EU) Regulation on certification of activities that remove carbon from the atmosphere ('carbon removals'), which included voluntary minimum...
22/03/2023
Today, the European Commission updated its list of the Critical Raw Materials (CRM) it needs to power the green and digital transitions, and issued a legislative proposal and a Communication for how it will source them.
There are...
16/03/2023
As the EU continues to think about how to certify carbon removals, evidence mounts of the problems with offsets and forest certification in general.
15/03/2023
Romanian NGO Agent Green explains why referring the country to the Court of Justice of the EU would help forests and underscore the practical effect of EU rules.