Negotiators have this week reached agreement on a wide-ranging revision to the Port Reception Facilities (PRF) Directive, the primary European Union (EU) legislation governing waste management of ships and at ports.
The EU Forest Manifesto is a call for political groups, candidates for European elections in 2019 and EU leaders to support forests and forest people in their manifestos, an all-inclusive approach for an action plan to protect forests and rights acknowledging that drivers of deforestation go beyond the forest sector
The European Commission is to decide whether the EU will develop an Action Plan on deforestation and degradation – failure to act would mean the EU will be unable to deliver on its international commitments to halt deforestation by 2020, protect climate and biodiversity and to guarantee that human rights are respected
Global efforts to reduce super greenhouse gases took a step forward with the announcement this week by the UK Government that it had begun the ratification process for the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.