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Earthsight reaction: EU policymakers agree to scrap “disastrous” amendments to deforestation law

04.12.2024 EUDR legislative process has unfolded in dramatic fashion over the past few weeks, only to land back at square one

Press release: EU Parliament votes to dramatically weaken landmark forest law

14.11.2024 EU Parliament has approved amendments to weaken the landmark EUDR

EU conservative bloc’s amendments to deforestation law are “a series of loopholes” which would make it “impossible to enforce"

07.11.2024 The European People’s Party (EPP) has proposed amendments that would be catastrophic for the landmark law

Press release: Secret Ingredient

26.09.2024 McDonald’s and some of Europe’s leading supermarkets are linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in the Brazilian Cerrado

Press release: European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton

11.04.2024 Fast-fashion retailers linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence

Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany

22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized

Press Release: EU politicians, NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies

22.02.2024 Open letter demanding an independent investigation by the FSC into how it came to certify the tainted Belarusian wood and furniture trade

Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law

14.09.2023 Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law

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 

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