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EU negotiators must protect forests and human rights
Greenpeace and over 140 other environmental, social justice, Indigenous rights and human rights organisations have written to the European Commission, European environment and agriculture ministers and Members of the European Parliament involved in negotiations on a new EU law to protect forests.
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NGO letter to EU Commission on new GMOs
Greenpeace wrote the the European Commission to warn against the far-reaching deregulation of GMOs in agriculture and food.
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EU parliament votes to take forest destruction off supermarket shelves
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a strong new EU anti-deforestation law, which would for the first time ban products linked to the destruction of forests and human rights violations.
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Forests protected, but other nature must wait
The European Parliament’s environment committee has greatly improved the proposed protection for forests in the draft EU law on deforestation-free products, but has left other threatened ecosystems like…
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Tracing forest destruction and human rights abuse
On 17 November 2021, the European Commissionpublished a draft law to address the EU’s contributionto global deforestation and forest degradation. In recentdecades, forests have been cleared and degraded at anaccelerating…
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Environment ministers take a chainsaw to EU forest law
European environment ministers have severely weakened the upcoming EU law to protect the world’s forests from European consumption, according to Greenpeace. The ministers’ proposed changes to the draft law that…
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Poll: 1 in 2 Europeans against spending public money on meat advertising
Over half of Europeans agree that public authorities should not fund marketing aimed at increasing meat consumption, according to a poll Greenpeace France commissioned in…
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Activists block giant soy ship at Dutch port
Brussels – More than 60 activists from 15 European countries, volunteering with Greenpeace Netherlands, have blocked a mega-ship arriving in the Netherlands with 60 million kilos of soy from Brazil,…
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Overselling EU trade deals: new study uncovers failures of sustainability impact assessments
The European Commission uses flawed and tardy sustainability impact assessments as a fig leaf for environmentally, socially and economically damaging EU trade agreements, according to a new study by Greenpeace Germany and the French Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms.
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The European Commission’s trade sustainability impact assessments: a critical review
This study establishes the state of play of the EU’s use of SIAs since they were first introduced more than 20 years ago.