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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...
10/06/2026
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
On 15 September, the prime ministers of Finland and Sweden sent a letter to the President of the European Commission asking for concessions within the current Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) target, the EU’s forest...
14/10/2025
The European Union’s forest carbon sink has declined dramatically over the last decade. The factors driving it are the subject of ongoing and intense debate.
This briefing summarises the well-documented causes of this decline:...
01/08/2025
Governments are facing pressure to deliver on LULUCF targets, and the wood industry is aggressively marketing wood products as a climate solution, while paradoxically calling for the ambition of forest climate targets to be...
09/07/2025
Will the EU’s carbon removals policy remove carbon from the atmosphere, or from forests and the land?
Urgent action is needed to ensure the upcoming EU carbon removal rules for biomass-based activities are cost-effective and do...
24/06/2025
On 19 March 2025 the Association of Forest and Nature Reserve Owners (VBNE) withdrew their appeal against a lower-court ruling that protects Dutch forests and biodiversity from clear-cutting. The groundbreaking decision of the...
03/04/2025
Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere than what we currently let ecosystems do....
04/03/2025
Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in the energy sector, it was possibly unaware that this would considerably...
13/11/2024
On 4 September 2024, the European Commission published the results of its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture, an innovative exercise that, in a period of bitter strife, gathered farm lobby groups and NGOs around a...
18/09/2024
