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On 5 July 2023, the European Commission put forward a proposal for a regulation on the production and marketing of forest reproductive material (FRM) to replace the current FRM Council Directive. The proposal would widen the scope of the current legislation to include not only FRM intended for forestry purposes, but also FRM intended for biodiversity conservation, restoration of forest ecosystems and climate adaptation and mitigation. The proposal would specify the rules for the production and marketing ...

Le présent document est le résumé de l’étude sur les incendies de forêt été 2022. L’étude complète, disponible en anglais, peut être téléchargée à l’adresse suivante: https://bit.ly/47v6pKj

En novembre 2021, la Commission a présenté une proposition visant à lutter contre la déforestation et la dégradation des forêts liées à des produits de base et spécifiques mis sur les marchés de l’Union ou exportés à partir de ceux-ci. Au cours de sa période de session de septembre, le Parlement votera sur le rapport en la matière adopté par sa commission de l’environnement, de la santé publique et de la sécurité alimentaire (ENVI). S’il est adopté, ce rapport constituera la position du Parlement ...

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, provides background information for the PETI Fact-finding visit to Poland scheduled from 19 to 21 September 2022. It investigates two main issues that were subject to specific petitions, namely the case of the Białowieża primeval forest (Petitions 0805/2017, 0812/2017 and 0623/2018) and the education of young persons and children with special ...

Covering nearly one third of the land surface of the globe, forests make a wide range of direct and indirect contributions to human well-being. Home to most of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, they also play an essential role in climate change mitigation, removing about a quarter of the CO2 that human activities add to the atmosphere. Worldwide, millions of hectares (ha) of forests and other types of vegetation burn every year. Fire dynamics are shaped by a complex set of factors, including ...

Les forêts et les bois couvrent près de la moitié de la surface terrestre de l’Union européenne. Ils jouent un rôle essentiel car ils sont en mesure d’atténuer les effets du changement climatique, de rendre de nombreux services aux écosystèmes, de contribuer au développement de la bioéconomie circulaire et de fournir des emplois à quelque 2,6 millions de personnes, en particulier dans les zones rurales. Le Parlement européen doit se prononcer, lors de la première période de session plénière d’octobre ...

Nowhere in the world are forests shrinking faster than in south-east Asia. Rapid population growth and economic development put intense pressure on the environment. Between 1990 and 2020, an area larger than Germany was deforested, over half of it in Indonesia. Land clearing for agriculture is the main cause of deforestation. Driven by booming global demand, oil palm plantations have spread into formerly forested land, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, which are the world's largest producers. ...

L'Union européenne (UE) ne dispose pas de politique forestière commune. Toutefois, de nombreuses politiques et initiatives européennes influent sur les forêts, non seulement sur son territoire, mais aussi dans les pays tiers.

This study reviewed the state of transparency and accountability in the forestry sector in developing countries focusing on contributions of EU actions and provisions on the same. The study was based on review of literature, policies and reports on forest governance, using three FLEGT-VPA case study countries, namely Cameroon, Ghana and Tanzania. More than 200 million Euros have been invested into FLEGT-VPA and related activities around Africa with positive impacts on transparency, accountability ...

This briefing reviews Estonia’s progress in the transition to a circular economy, focusing on a three crucial and related policy areas: waste, renewable energy and sustainable bioenergy. A key challenge for Estonia in terms of moving to a circular economy will be to strengthen recycling, as well as high rates of separate collection in cities including Tallinn – Estonia is not on track to meet the EU’s 2020 targets for municipal solid waste recycling. • The share of renewable energy has increased ...