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Key victories on EU deforestation law, but challenges remain
The planned EU legislation on deforestation-free supply chains has completed two significant steps on its way to becoming law. The regulation’s goal is to minimise the EU’s impact on forest loss worldwide by banning from the...
EU must be ready to publicly name and shame bad actors if law on deforestation-free products is to be effective
It is essential that a mandatory public list of non-compliant businesses is included in the final regulation to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradationLessons from the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation show...
Russia’s timber oligarchs
Earthsight analysis exposes the Russian oligarchs with past and present links to President Vladimir Putin who are making a killing off a multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firmsThe list includes powerful industry...
Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West
London, 11 March 2022 – Russian oligarchs linked to President Vladimir Putin are making a killing off a multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms.A new Earthsight analysis today reveals the powerful industry barons...
Suspect timber firms lobby for certified wood ‘green lane’ in draft EU anti-deforestation law
Europe’s leading timber lobby group wants a draft EU law aimed at protecting forests to grant a ‘green lane’ to timber approved by dubious certification schemes.The Brussels-based European Timber Trade Federation, which...
Relying on green labels to address our thirst for products of deforestation would be a disaster
Fresh promises on forests at COP26 will be meaningless unless they are coupled with real action. A key test will come shortly after the conference concludes.Deforestation and associated human rights abuses are driven by...
NGOs urge ‘immediate’ reform at ethical wood label to fight global deforestation
London, 25 October 2021 – Environmental and civil society groups today publish an open letter accusing the world’s leading green certification body of failing to protect forests and indigenous groups. Read the full letter...
FSC hall of shame: The ethical wood label’s long line of scandals
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo isn’t hard to find. The tree-tick symbol can be found on hundreds of products on supermarket shelves, furniture shops and DIY stores. It’s on books, toilet paper and plywood, even...
Ikea, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more
Earthsight’s latest investigation laid bare once more the problems facing the world’s largest wood buyer and the world’s foremost green timber label. Ikea’s House of Horrors revealed how children’s furniture sold by the...
Ikea's House of Horrors
Ikea, the world's biggest furniture retailer, has for years sold children's furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected forests in Russia, an Earthsight investigation has found.
