The Nature Restoration Law’s worthwhile long and winding road EU citizens can celebrate a welcome break in the hostilities against environmental legislation. First, the version of the Nature…
Sydney Vennin Sydney is trained in anthropology and forest ecology. Before joining Fern, Sydney researched the impacts of mechanisation on forests in France. At Fern, she focuses on forest…
EU 2040 climate target - what does it mean for forests? In February 2024, the European Commission issued its 2040 climate target Communication, which proposes to reduce net greenhouse gases (GHG) by…
Forest Watch 291 - December 2023 EU launches EUDR support package & essential Forest Monitoring Law, but fails to tackle the paper packaging scourge. Sign up for Forest Watch
Poland’s forest policies recently provoked national shame. Now they are a source of pride. As the backlash against laws protecting nature intensifies across Europe, Augustyn Mikos charts how intense…
EU independent science body criticises European inconsistency in climate policy and forests Overlogging and climate change are causing the collapse of European forest carbon sinks, and the EU risks…
The Chocolate challenge – could it provide lessons for other EUDR commodities? Chocolate’s complex supply chain faces no shortage of challenges, some longstanding and entrenched, others that arise…
A hopeful, mysterious start for EU Strategic Farm dialogues At this point, most Europeans can agree that greater consensus in EU farming policy would be a wonderful thing. That the Commission…
