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29.01.2025
Press release: Blood-stained birch
Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
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04.12.2024
Earthsight reaction: EU policymakers agree to scrap “disastrous” amendments to deforestation law
EUDR legislative process has unfolded in dramatic fashion over the past few weeks, only to land back at square one
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14.11.2024
Press release: EU Parliament votes to dramatically weaken landmark forest law
EU Parliament has approved amendments to weaken the landmark EUDR
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12.11.2024
Press release: Political parties undermining landmark forest protection law have received donations linked to illegal deforestation
Over €1.7 million in deforestation-linked funds donated since 2018
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07.11.2024
EU conservative bloc’s amendments to deforestation law are “a series of loopholes” which would make it “impossible to enforce"
The European People’s Party (EPP) has proposed amendments that would be catastrophic for the landmark law
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26.09.2024
Press release: Secret Ingredient
McDonald’s and some of Europe’s leading supermarkets are linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in the Brazilian Cerrado
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11.04.2024
Press release: European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton
Fast-fashion retailers linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence
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22.03.2024
Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany
Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized
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22.02.2024
Press Release: EU politicians, NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies
Open letter demanding an independent investigation by the FSC into how it came to certify the tainted Belarusian wood and furniture trade
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14.09.2023
Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law
Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law
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