Białowieża: Polish defiance continues in the ECJ hearing On 11 September 2017, the European Court of Justice ECJ heard arguments relating to Poland’s failure to comply with the ECJ’s injunction…
Energy Union Governance Regulation: Europe’s opportunity to set a negative emissions target Countries need to start coming up with numbers for how much carbon they will remove from the atmosphere,…
High praise indeed: UK timber traders wish to maintain EUTR and FLEGT In the uncertain process of disentangling the United Kingdom from its European partners, the UK timber industry have cautioned…
News in Brief September 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…
The fate of the Congo Basin forests must lie with its people A light breeze of democratisation is blowing through the Congo Basin – and it is being driven by civil society.In the Central African…
Ghana is on the brink of a major advance in its fight against illegal logging. But now its forests face serious threat from mining. Between 1990 and 2005 Ghana lost an estimated quarter of…
Blog: Białowieża forest struggle is symptomatic of a greater ill As Polish authorities disregard national protests and international pressure to stop logging, activists face increasing hostility in…
EU’s Environment Committee recognises role of forests in fighting climate change but fails on bioenergy The European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee today…
Hope in Poland’s Białowieża Forest as UN body calls for halt to illegal logging There were tears of joy in Kracow, Poland and the ancient Białowieża Forest when UN delegates called for its…
Anxiety grows as Commission shifts towards ‘soft’ approach on deforestation The European Commission (EC) has finally released two long-awaited and hotly anticipated draft reports about the future of…
