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Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)
European Union governments today gave the final go-ahead to a new law meant to prevent the bloc driving deforestation overseas through its consumption of beef, soy, palm oil and four other commodities linked to global forest...
EU must strengthen planned corporate sustainability due diligence law to prevent business-as-usual in global supply chains
Long-awaited EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence nears key votes in European Parliament, where MEPs must improve vital aspects of the text if the law is to have its intended impact Earthsight’s...
Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion
March 20, 2023 – Despite its government’s strong public condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine, Japan has continued to import Russian timber to the tune of $414 million since the invasion began, helping to bankroll...
REVEALED: Russian “conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in the US
Key Findings US business in “conflict timber” banned in the EU and Britain is helping fund Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and further enrich powerful oligarchs, Earthsight can reveal. Our investigation, published today to...
"Hurt The Dictator": Q&A With Belarusian Dissident Andrei Sannikov
Speaking to Earthsight, exiled Belarusian dissident Andrei Sannikov urged tougher sanctions on President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in response to the invasion of Ukraine His statements come after our November report...
EU agrees on much needed landmark law, but work still needed to fully protect forests and communities
This morning the European Council and Parliament reached an agreement on a new regulation on deforestation-free supply chains. The law seeks to minimise the EU’s impact on forest destruction worldwide by banning from the EU...
Rubber-stamping Repression: Key Findings
For years, Earthsight can reveal, Europe’s largest furniture retail chains have been profiting from the torture of political prisoners in Belarus, while their purchases have also served to personally enrich the country’s brutal...
Leading green label and Europe’s biggest furniture retailers linked to torture-stained Belarusian wood trade
Investigation shows European furniture buyers are being made unwittingly complicit in torture of political prisoners in Belarus, with forced prison labour supplying their goods. Belarus’ prison service is country’s largest...
Репрессии под грифом «одобрено» : Ключевые выводы
Выводы Earthsight демонстрируют, что крупнейшие мебельные розничные сети Европы годами получали прибыль в результате пыток политических заключенных в Беларуси. Кроме того, покупки в них служили для личного обогащения жестокого...
Freifahrtschein für Repression: Zentrale Ergebnisse
Seit Jahren schon profitieren die größten Möbeleinzelhandelsketten Europas von der Folter politischer Gefangener in Weißrussland, teilt Earthsight mit. Zugleich dienen ihre Käufe der persönlichen Bereicherung des brutalen...
