Deforestation and Forest Degradation Sharing Space

Wetlands—including peatlands, mangroves, rivers, lakes, salt marshes, and seagrass beds—are vital for biodiversity and form a cornerstone of the EU Water Strategy. They deliver essential provisioning, regulating, and cultural...

The Amazon rainforest, a vital global ecosystem, is facing significant threats from the loss of intact forest through deforestation and degradation. This report provides an overview of recent forest changes in the Amazon, focusing...

A new report by a coalition of NGOs, Bankrolling ecosystem destruction, shows that since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, European banks have lent about €256 billion to corporations that put forests, savannahs and other climate...

This report is published in the context of the newly established EU Forest Observatory on Deforestation and Forest Degradation, which is managed by the Joint Research Centre. One of the aims of the Observatory is to support the...

by Deutsche Umwelthilfe DUH (Environmental Action Germany) In Germany, the demand for foods of animal origin, such as meat and dairy products, remains very high, despite the considerable negative impacts on the environment, health...

On 25 November 2020, the National Wildlife Federation published the attached policy brief on "Deforestation and forest degradation – reducing the impact of products placed on the EU market: developing EU measures modelled after...

In its Communication, the EU Commission calls upon the Member States to be more productive in developing national strategies and action plans against deforestation and forest degradation. The German Federal Government has complied...