{"id":47768,"date":"2025-10-08T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=47768"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:20:53","slug":"eu-commission-must-not-delay-europes-forest-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/47768\/eu-commission-must-not-delay-europes-forest-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission must not delay forest protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/d4c7ece7-gp0su6o3v_medium-res-with-credit-line-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Marizilda Cruppe \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>One tree is lost ever second due to EU consumption of products that put forests at risk. The European Commission must not further delay the EU&#8217;s deforestation regulation \u2013 it is the best tool to end Europe&#8217;s complicity in the destruction of the world&#8217;s forests.<\/p>\n\n<p>A letter from Greenpeace, along with ClientEarth, Environmental Investigation Agency, Fern Forest Peoples Programme, Global Witness and WWF European Policy Office, to Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Executive Vice Presidents Teresa Ribera and St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, and Commissioners Jessika Roswall, Valdis Dombrovskis, and Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/b8ff78cf-2025-10-07-ngo-letter-to-eu-commission-deforestation.pdf\">Read the full letter here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/b8ff78cf-2025-10-07-ngo-letter-to-eu-commission-deforestation.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2025-10-07-NGO-letter-to-EU-Commission-deforestation.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9c94c627-99d0-4b34-9d85-9bdd1a5c6128\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2025\/10\/b8ff78cf-2025-10-07-ngo-letter-to-eu-commission-deforestation.pdf\">2025-10-07-NGO-letter-to-EU-Commission-deforestation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tree is lost ever second due to EU consumption of products that put forests at risk. The European Commission must not further delay the EU&#8217;s deforestation regulation \u2013 it is the best tool to end Europe&#8217;s complicity in the destruction of the world&#8217;s forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47771,"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":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-47768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-food","tag-forests","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47768","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=47768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47774,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47768\/revisions\/47774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47768"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=47768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}