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Chainsaws fall silent: EU agrees deforestation law
Brussels – In a world first, companies will have to show that their products have not contributed to deforestation if they want to sell them in the EU, after negotiations…
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Food security: grow food, not feed
What Europe’s policy-makers must do to truly achieve food security
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Last negotiations on EU deforestation law
Brussels – On Monday 5 December, representatives of the European Commission, European Parliament and EU national governments will meet in Brussels for what may be the final round of negotiations…
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Activists confront pulp and paper ship in protest against EU forest destruction
Activists from across Europe are confronting a pulp and paper container ship in the port of Lübeck and calling for the protection of Europe’s last-remaining forests. The protest takes place as representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament are in the final stages of negotiations on a new EU law against deforestation.
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What Lula’s victory in Brazil should mean for the EU-Mercosur trade deal
Now is the time to let the Amazon heal. But without a major overhaul, the EU-Mercosur trade deal would do the exact opposite.
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Polluting farms’ industrial emissions must be regulated
Livestock farms are major sources of air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution.
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EU negotiators must protect forests and human rights
Greenpeace and over 140 other environmental, social justice, Indigenous rights and human rights organisations have written to the European Commission, European environment and agriculture ministers and Members of the European Parliament involved in negotiations on a new EU law to protect forests.
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NGO letter to EU Commission on new GMOs
Greenpeace wrote the the European Commission to warn against the far-reaching deregulation of GMOs in agriculture and food.
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EU parliament votes to take forest destruction off supermarket shelves
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a strong new EU anti-deforestation law, which would for the first time ban products linked to the destruction of forests and human rights violations.