News

Environment Committee fails to act on biomass burning

Despite some positive points, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament (ENVI) failed to set EU bioenergy policy on a sensible course when it voted, October 2017, on the Renewable Energy Directive (REDII). The...

16/11/2017

Press Releases

Airlines’ ‘action’ on climate change means doubling emissions

This press release exposes the flaws in the airline industry’s plans to offset its carbon emissions.

13/11/2017

European banks halt funding to company over deforestation concerns

Two of Europe’s major banks have agreed to stop financing a controversial Indonesian pulp and paper company after a campaign by Greenpeace. Spanish banking group Banco Santander said it had decided not to continue current funding...

05/11/2017

The EU must take a broader approach to helping companies keep commitments

Responding to pressure from NGOs, 23 consumer goods companies, many European, have committed to halting deforestation and native vegetation loss for soy in the Brazilian tropical savannah, the Cerrado.

The Cerrado Manifesto aims...

01/11/2017

Civil Aviation is playing a dangerous offsets game with our climate

As delegates from the UN’s aviation agency, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), gather in Montreal to agree details around an industry-wide carbon offsetting proposal, Fern reveals the dangers of the proposal by ...

01/11/2017

Forest governance

Greater enforcement of EU Timber Regulation will help improve forest governance

The European Commission has launched a first infringement procedure against Belgium for failure to enforce the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), which prohibits the placing of illegally harvested timber on the EU market. Those putting...

01/11/2017

Films

Airlines: Stop dodging the Paris Agreement

31/10/2017

Cambodian rights abuses – becoming a global issue

Civil society organisations around the world have sent a letter to the International Criminal Court, calling for the Cambodian elite to be investigated for crimes against humanity. The letter follows a formal communication on 7...

24/10/2017

Scientists raise the alarm over recent EU climate policy proposals

Almost 200 climate, forestry and environmental scientists, including many from Finland and Sweden, have sent an open letter to the Council and the European Parliament to express their “grave concern over the scientific basis of...

20/10/2017

ICAO biofuel plans are a Trojan horse for palm oil

Nearly 100 NGOs have condemned the UN’s aviation agency’s plans to dramatically scale up use of biofuels in planes. The NGOs say that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s “Vision” proposal, which claims it will...

20/10/2017