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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leading green label and Europe’s biggest furniture retailers linked to torture-stained Belarusian wood trade Read the full report. Investigation shows European furniture buyers are being made unwittingly complicit in...
Green label’s ‘multi-stakeholder approach’ fails to deliver for forests and forest peoples With governments slowly waking up to the dangers posed by fake green credentials in undermining meaningful climate action,...
MEPs have voted to strengthen key elements of a planned EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains. The aim of the law, which was proposed by the European Commission in November 2021 and voted on yesterday, is to...