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Reija Mikkola, Policy and Campaigns Coordinator for the Biomass Action Network of the Environmental Paper Network International, spoke with Fern about the forest and climate consequences of critical issues that must be urgently...
08/07/2026
Academics and NGOs recently released new reports about the Europe’s land sink. Against the backdrop of a deadly June heatwave, the science remains as alarming as we have been warned for years. The weakening of environmental...
Dr. Stefan Kreft, of German NGO Naturwald Akademie, discusses an exciting new German initiative that, at long last, puts serious funding behind nature-based solutions that serve both climate and biodiversity.
10/06/2026
On 11 June 2026, just days after the earliest heatwave ever recorded in Western Europe, the Commission’s Expert Group under the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF) will discuss “challenges and perspectives” around...
The European Commission has announced it will look into merging the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation [LULUCF] and the Effort Sharing Regulation [ESR] into a single instrument on national climate targets.
13/05/2026
As it does every five years, Forest Europe has just released its 2025 State of Europe’s Forests report, compiled from the national inventories of the EU and 44 European countries.
As the successful battle to kill off the EU’s...
01/04/2026
Even though political representatives keep handing forestry lobbyists wins, some commercial mammoths have begun to ignore forestry-sector greenwashing and to distance themselves from Nordic forestry controversial practices.
In...
04/03/2026
Major companies are cutting ties with Northern Europe’s forest sector over concerns about labour scandals and how the industry operates. Rather than address systemic abuse, Sweden and Finland are pushing the European Commission to...
10/12/2025
The EU is scrambling to secure the critical raw materials needed for the energy transition and defense. But in Finnish Lapland this quest threatens to destroy precious habitats and traditional livelihoods, as Perrine Fournier, Anna Muižniece and Dhany Alfalah discover.
08/12/2025
Since September 2025, the EU has set itself on a course to diminish the climate ambition of its Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sectors in response to industry pressure.
Early on 5 November 2025, even the...
10/11/2025
