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FSC must terminate negotiations with paper giant APRIL over its continued links to deforestation
12.12.2024 It's been a decade since it cut ties with the Indonesian paper giant
European Commission proposes year-long delay to crucial supply chain law, threatening 2,300 sq km of forest
02.10.2024 The European Commission wants to refuel the bulldozers
Academic study confirms green labels fall short of requirements set by upcoming EU deforestation law
15.08.2024 Green labels do not fully align with the most important requirements of the EUDR relating to deforestation and legality
EU finally bans torture-stained Belarusian furniture trade
15.07.2024 The decision will shut down a supply chain long marred by human rights abuses and torture
The Belarusian furniture industry is the backbone of Lukashenko’s regime. So why hasn’t the EU sanctioned it yet?
19.10.2023 Demanding Belarusian sanctions
NGO letter: EU Member States urged to properly implement and enforce the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products
10.07.2023 Civil society organisations urge EU Member States to learn valuable lessons from EUTR and take urgent steps to effectively implement and enforce the new law
EU must be ready to publicly name and shame bad actors if law on deforestation-free products is to be effective
30.03.2022 Crucial clause must return
Russia’s timber oligarchs
11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms
Suspect timber firms lobby for certified wood ‘green lane’ in draft EU anti-deforestation law
09.11.2021 Influential timber industry group run by firms guilty of logging and wood trading abuses calls for proposed EU rules to wave through wood certified by dubious sustainability schemes
Ikea, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more
06.09.2021 Swedish retail giant and green timber label have moved to address problem of illegal sanitary felling in eastern Russia, but their measures must go further
