Doomed from the start: EU proposal to ‘offset’ aviation’s emissions The EU and its partners from the ‘High Ambition Coalition,’ recently called on countries to join a voluntary…
Draft carbon removals rules: will the EU’s climate action be ruined by its bioenergy policy? Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and…
Draft Decree of Vietnam’s timber legality system lacks teeth says the Vietnamese NGO FLEGT network Vietnam’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union (EU) is designed to end the…
Drawing out links between the Common Agricultural Policy, soy, and deforestation in South America The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is fuelling tropical deforestation, according…
DRC receives millions for forests despite governance concerns The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) have signed a letter of intent (LOI) awarding…
Driving change, not deforestation The transition to e-mobility is an essential component of efforts to achieve climate neutrality. But the transition also requires critical raw materials such as…
Driving to destruction This study analyses the likely impacts on land use and greenhouse gas emissions of biofuel use by 2020, as projected in recently published National Renewable Energy Action…
Dropping rubber from the EU’s deforestation-free supply chain regulation is not an option Increased deforestation and farmer poverty would likely result from Commission’s failure to include this…
Dual climate and biodiversity crises threaten people and the planet, but we have the tools to solve them! The unfolding COVID crisis has laid bare our social, disaster-preparedness, economic and…
Due diligence in the UK is coming down to the devilish details The public still have time to insist on bold UK action to protect and restore forests worldwide. Two years in the making, the UK’s…
