Climate change linked to animal products: Germany proposes action, the EU thwarts its own goals Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is calling for higher taxes on animal products, given that…
News in brief February 2017 Fern is deeply concerned about the attack on Cercle d’Appui à la Gestion Durable des Forêts (CAGDF) offices in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (RoC),…
Palm oil plantations in Cameroon ‘took away families’ crop land and burial lands’, hear participants at event in EU Parliament Testimonies on the devastating impact of palm oil production in…
A new beginning in the fight against illegal timber The first batch of timber considered legal under Europe’s most innovative ever anti-illegal logging policy arrived in the UK this…
European Commission grants Drax a license to destroy forests at public’s expense The UK’s biggest power station Drax can continue destroying forests and releasing greenhouse gas emissions at the…
Renewable energy proposal fails to act on bioenergy On 30 November the EU Commission published its ‘Winter Package’, a 1,000 page document describing its climate and energy plans for after 2020. The…
SDG Communications: Commission overlooks forests On 22 November 2016 the European Commission released a series of Communications on measures to take to implement the 17 Sustainable Development…
Should world’s first FLEGT licences receive warm welcome? On 15 November 2016, Indonesia became the first country in the world to issue FLEGT licences, opening up the long-awaited ‘green lane’…
Fines used to enforce the EU Timber Regulation’s documentation requirement Two Member State authorities have issued fines upholding the EU Timber Regulation requirement for proper…
News in Brief December 2016 Malta, who will hold the next European presidency (January - June 2017), is a country with exceptional oceans and almost 200 km of coastline, but it is not known for…
