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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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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.
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Europe goes despot shopping in misguided response to Putin’s war
As the leaders of the EU’s 27 governments are joined in Brussels by US president Joe Biden to consider a further response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, they seek alternative suppliers to prolong fossil fuels, nuclear energy and industrial farming, and backtrack on measures to tackle the escalating climate and nature crisis, warned Greenpeace.
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Activists install live deforestation counter on EU Council building while ministers meet
Brussels – Six Greenpeace Belgium climbers scaled the facade of the EU Council headquarters in Brussels to display a live counter of the amount of forest destroyed around the world while environment ministers meet to discuss a proposed EU law to tackle deforestation. The counter on the Europa building displayed the number of hectares of…
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110+ NGOs demand improvements to EU anti-deforestation plan
Over 110 environmental, human rights and other civil society organisations have called on the European Parliament and EU national governments to greatly improve upon the European Commission's proposed law to cut the EU's contribution to global forest destruction.
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Analysis: EU Commission’s proposed anti-deforestation law
Forests are essential for life on earth. Despite this, forests have been cleared and degraded at an accelerating rate in recent decades mainly due to agricultural expansion, illegal or unsustainable…
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14 protests across EU ask ministers to stop forest destruction
"Around the world, an area of forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed faster than even the best player could kick a ball across it"