Survey reveals 87 per cent of those polled in 25 EU countries want new laws to ensure the products sold in EU countries do not contribute to global deforestation
Today (21 March) is the UN’s International Day of Forests and our campaigners are in Brussels for the launch of a joint Forest Pledge.
Our senior Forests campaigners are at the European Parliament today (30 January) to sound a note of caution over an imminent EU timber trade deal with Vietnam..
After months of negotiations, the European Union has agreed new legislation to slash single-use plastics.
Fluorinated greenhouse gases, or F-gases, are just about everywhere in contemporary life, from industrial and supermarket refrigeration to foams, air-conditioning systems and water coolers. Among them are HFCs, a family of potent greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide
F-Gases, and HFCs in particular, are a rapidly growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Currently they account for around two per cent of European emissions, but unless urgent action is taken this will increase dramatically, estimates suggest they could account for up to 19 per cent of global emissions by 2050