{"id":45467,"date":"2021-03-10T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=45467"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:32:11","slug":"the-eu-must-not-rely-on-certification-schemes-to-protect-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/45467\/the-eu-must-not-rely-on-certification-schemes-to-protect-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU must not rely on certification schemes to protect nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2021\/03\/20210310-letter-Timmermans-Sinkevicius-EU-policies-should-not-rely-on-certification-schemes.pdf\">We wrote<\/a> to European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius asking them to introduce a strong EU law to keep products linked to destruction of forests and other ecosystems off the EU market. We urged them not to rely on certification schemes to protect nature, nor as a means to show compliance with EU legislation, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/45452\/certification-schemes-let-forest-destruction-into-eu-market\/\">new research<\/a> has shown that these schemes greenwash destructive products.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2021\/03\/20210310-letter-Timmermans-Sinkevicius-EU-policies-should-not-rely-on-certification-schemes.pdf\">The full letter is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did-1024x682.jpg\" title=\"Burning Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Daniel Beltr\u00e1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/10\/6cdc4186-gp01did.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Daniel Beltr\u00e1<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote to European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius asking them to introduce a strong EU law to keep products linked to destruction of forests&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,28],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-45467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-food","tag-food","tag-forests","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45470,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions\/45470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45467"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=45467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}