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Chainsaws fall silent: EU agrees deforestation law
Brussels – In a world first, companies will have to show that their products have not contributed to deforestation if they want to sell them in the EU, after negotiations…
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Last negotiations on EU deforestation law
Brussels – On Monday 5 December, representatives of the European Commission, European Parliament and EU national governments will meet in Brussels for what may be the final round of negotiations…
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Activists confront pulp and paper ship in protest against EU forest destruction
Activists from across Europe are confronting a pulp and paper container ship in the port of Lübeck and calling for the protection of Europe’s last-remaining forests. The protest takes place as representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament are in the final stages of negotiations on a new EU law against deforestation.
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What Lula’s victory in Brazil should mean for the EU-Mercosur trade deal
Now is the time to let the Amazon heal. But without a major overhaul, the EU-Mercosur trade deal would do the exact opposite.
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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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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…