Member States who fail to implement EU biodiversity laws may want to rethink their approach given recent decisions by the European Court of Justice.
13/07/2022
After the Council fails to defend the future of forests, it now falls to the European Parliament and the Commission to reaffirm the rules’ purpose and to restrict loopholes.
For the first time, a major EU regulatory body has concluded that one of the EU’s most climate-wrecking policies of the last decade - incentivising the burning of forests in the name of renewable energy - has to stop.
20/05/2022
NGOs, scientists and locals unite to oppose the construction of a harmful barrier in one of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests. Built to stop 20,000 refugees, the wall is a symbol of Poland’s inconsistent migration policy.
31/03/2022
The Commission is pushing for a more meaningful take on EU environmental obligations.
14/02/2022
Ireland’s managed forests emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) than they store − a bizarre perversion of what forests normally do: absorb CO2. This startling revelation is found in Ireland’s National Forest Accounting Plan, required as...
10/11/2020
The European Parliament (EP) has chosen between opposing visions of the EU’s future Forest Strategy. MEP Petri Sarvamaa of the Agriculture Committee (AGRI) proposed an own-initiative report that runs counter to the goals of the...
13/10/2020
In a plenary vote on 8 October 2020, the European Parliament (EP) protected the European Union’s climate ambition by approving Jytte Guteland’s report on the EU Climate Law. The report endorses a 60 per cent emission reductions...
Communities battling to save the last 10 per cent of Germany’s Hambach forest are celebrating the temporary suspension of logging granted by an administrative court in Münster on 5 October 2018. The suspension came after German...
18/10/2018
Inside the Arctic Circle, in Sweden, Latvia, Finland, Norway, and –...
19/09/2018
