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Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)

16.05.2023 Success of EU's landmark deforestation law far from assured 

Revealed: Timber linked to Russia’s Wagner private army on sale in Europe

16.05.2023 Scandal has implications for new law meant to address EU role in deforestation overseas 

Russian mercenaries cash in on Europe’s scramble for African timber

16.05.2023 New evidence reveals an EU timber rush in one of the world’s most fragile nations fuels local instability and bolsters Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Joint letter to JURI committee on CSDDD & Indigenous rights

24.04.2023 The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive must protect rights of indigenous & local communities

EU must strengthen planned corporate sustainability due diligence law to prevent business-as-usual in global supply chains

31.03.2023 A Long-awaited EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence nears key votes in European Parliament. MEPs must improve vital aspects of the text

Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion

22.03.2023 Imports linked to illegal logging profit oligarchs & Russian gov't

Fresh G7 sanctions fail to stop multibillion-dollar “conflict timber” trade

01.03.2023 New sanctions missed opportunity to prevent cash flows into the pockets of key Putin allies

“Conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in US since Ukraine invasion

24.02.2023 America’s continued trade in Russian ‘conflict timber is aiding terror in Ukraine and further enriching ultrawealthy Russians close to Putin

REVEALED: Russian “conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in the US

24.02.2023 Ukrainian activists say America’s business in Russian wood is helping to fuel Putin’s invasion

"Hurt The Dictator": Q&A With Belarusian Dissident Andrei Sannikov

31.01.2023 Andrei Sannikov outlines the urgent need for strong sanctions on Belarusian timber

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