Safeguarding the climate and nature will help tackle future security threats We are living in a time of overlapping crises. Action to avert the biodiversity and climate catastrophes are being stalled…
Open letter calling on the UK government to ensure new laws on addressing deforestation cover all commodities The UK Government has shown leadership on forests and land use at COP26, and in setting…
Open Letter: Include ambitious restoration targets in the EU Nature Restoration Law An open letter to the Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, on behalf of…
5 loopholes in the EU deforestation regulation The video is available above in different languages. This new video explains the EU’s proposed new Regulation on deforestation-free products, which…
Rights-based NGOs urge the EU to ensure a smallholder-inclusive Regulation on deforestation-free products Fern and four other NGOs have joined together to call on the European Parliament and Council…
OPEN LETTER: CALL TO UPHOLD STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS FOR TRACEABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN FORTHCOMING EU REGULATION Ahead of your meeting on 17 March we would like to bring to your attention key…
Corporate Due Diligence proposal could improve access to justice, but contains fundamental weaknesses Under the long-awaited proposed Due Diligence Directive, the majority of EU companies need not…
Sixth EU-African Union Summit: A political fig leaf for continued inaction on biodiversity and climate? The EU-AU Summit did not match the EU’s rhetoric on a new, inclusive partnership of equals. The…
Brazil’s “Poison Package” laws set to facilitate greater pesticide use Despite the concerns of many about the devastating effect that pesticides can have on bees and biodiversity generally, the EU…
