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In the uncertain process of disentangling the United Kingdom from its European partners, the UK timber industry have cautioned not to throw the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) and FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements (FLEGT VPAs)...
25/09/2017
The European Parliament is currently finalising both the new land use and forestry (LULUCF) file and the proposal for the Renewable Energy Directive, at a time when the role of forests in mitigating climate change and cleaning the...
The Conservative MEP Richard Ashworth has vowed to “defend the Malaysian Palm Oil industry against EU biofuel policy reforms,” according to media reports. He was a member of a delegation of European Conservative and Reformist...
11/09/2017
A light breeze of democratisation is blowing through the Congo Basin – and it is being driven by civil society.In the Central African Republic (CAR), civil society is playing a key role in rebuilding a nation torn apart by civil...
Between 1990 and 2005 Ghana lost an estimated quarter of its national forest cover. Illegal timber harvesting was rife, and poor governance and a lack of transparency plagued the forest sector.
Things began to change for the...
31/07/2017
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...
27/07/2017
The European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee today voted to increase removals of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by forests from 2030 onwards, recognising the important role that EU...
11/07/2017
There were tears of joy in Kracow, Poland and the ancient Białowieża Forest when UN delegates called for its illegal logging to be halted.
Despite being acknowledged as a jewel of temperate primeval forests, and being both a UNES...
06/07/2017
The European Commission (EC) has finally released two long-awaited and hotly anticipated draft reports about the future of the EU’s flagship forest policy and a potential new Action Plan on deforestation. Over three days more than...
An ad hoc delegation of the European Parliament’s Development Committee recently visited Cameroon to look at forest management and assess EU involvement. They recommended that the EU continue its support for the stalled Voluntary...
