Loopholes in EU regulations appear to be driving unsustainable and fraudulent palm oil trade. EIA’s new briefing The Palm Oil Black Box – EU trade loopholes analyses EU trade patterns for palm oil and reveals a significant increase in the imports of waste and residues used to make biofuels. Biofuels are renewable fuels used as […]
Tracking the overall trade in oil palm is complex due to its many derivatives, products and uses. Many of the trade codes used at an international level are not specific to oil palm and multiple codes can be used for similar products, making trade opaque.
Senior European lawmakers have been urged to ensure human rights and deforestation issues are kept at the heart of a new forest products risk-ranking system for countries. The proposed country risk benchmarking system will operate under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which seeks to prohibit trade in timber, beef, leather, chocolate, soy, palm oil and […]
EIA has joined with more than 245 civil society organisations from at least 42 countries to call on the European Parliament and national EU governments to reject the European Commission’s bid to stall a major forests protection law. The Commission is proposing a delay of 12 months to legally applying the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). […]
Following the UK’s historic election, EIA welcomes new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and urges his new Government to take a positive and proactive approach to forest protection
EIA and more than 170 NGOs have jointly written to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to express their utmost support for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which will come into effect in December