EU Member States today rejected the European Parliament's amendments to the EU’s landmark deforestation regulation. These amendments pose a severe threat to the law’s integrity and were tabled last week by the centre-right...
20/11/2024
Ghana is on the brink of a major advance in the fight against illegal logging, say Albert Katako and Obed Owusu-Addai. So why is the EU turning away from its flagship policy to tackle it?
Ghana will soon become the first African...
15/11/2024
The European Parliament today approved the Commission’s proposal to delay the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 12 months. It also voted through new amendments that would allow huge volumes of...
14/11/2024
Not so long ago, a commentator called the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) “a green jewel in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s crown that has garnered praise and inspired imitations beyond the EU”. But in the...
13/11/2024
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...
Eastern European forests are currently being severely degraded, putting their unique biodiversity and climate at risk. From 2010-2019, the Eastern European carbon sink showed a 52% decrease of overall carbon uptake from land use...
After a scandal revealed that Stora Enso logging operations had crushed IUCN and EU-listed critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels, the company temporarily suspended operations in areas protected under various Finnish laws...
On 14 November, the European Parliament is set to vote on the EU Commission’s proposed year-long delay to the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation. Yesterday, 6 November, the European People's Party (EPP) proposed...
07/11/2024
Following a proposal to delay the EU’s law to tackle deforestation, nearly three quarters of those polled believe lawmakers should prioritise implementation
