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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
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...
31/10/2017
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
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
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...
The European Commission’s response to the Parliament resolution on palm oil and deforestation of rainforests attempts, with difficulty, to balance both the environmental and social harm of palm oil plantations against their...
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On 3 October 2017, the European Parliament (EP) passed a resolution urging the EU to increase its 2030 climate targets and to devise a strategy to bring European emissions to zero by 2050. The EP called for this to be done...
As Polish authorities disregard national protests and international pressure to stop logging, activists face increasing hostility in order to protect Białowieża, Europe’s last primeval forest. Activists estimate that 600-900 trees...
19/10/2017
Keeping global warming below 1.5°C - which the Paris Agreement strives to – means fundamental changes for industries from energy to transport. Yet the aviation sector - one of the planet’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide (CO2)...
18/10/2017
