The EU Deforestation Regulation Should Not be Delayed

“The European Commission's proposal to delay the enforcement of the EU Deforestation Regulation is disappointing. It sends the wrong signal to ...

In a surprise move, the European Commission has proposed a 12-month delay in implementation of the EU's groundbreaking deforestation law, which ...

The European Parliament sought on Thursday to water down a ban on the import of commodities such as beef and soy linked to deforestation, ...

EU deforestation obligations will be postponed one year so that companies can comply with the law that ensures products sold in the EU are not ...

Brussels, November 14 – The European Parliament today backed a 12-month delay for the EU's landmark anti-deforestation law, which would see ...

The European Parliament has bowed to pressure from various stakeholders and voted to delay a landmark deforestation regulation.

Firstly, this regulation will not halt global deforestation, or only at the margins for certain sectors − such as cocoa, for which Europe ...

The European Commission recently proposed a year-long delay to its flagship European Union Deforestation Regulation, also known as EUDR. · The ...

What is the EU Deforestation Regulation? · What would this delay mean in practice? · A (shorter) delay for the Commission to assign risk profiles ...

The EU needs to stand firm against the countries and companies hellbent on weakening its pioneering regulation to stop commodities harming forests.

A delay will effectively reward those companies who are continuing to profit from environmental destruction and do not want to change their ...

Companies that have paid to source agricultural produce that complies with the European Union's anti-deforestation law would lose out if the ...

Last week, the European Commission announced that it was proposing a 12-month delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

The targeted amendment will not affect the substance of the already existing rules, which is to minimise the EU's contribution to deforestation ...

“We strongly oppose reopening the substance of the EUDR [EU Deforestation Regulation] for new negotiations. This would serve only to impede the ...

However, in response to calls by global stakeholders, on 2 October 2024, the European Commission (Commission) proposed to delay the ...

Under the proposal, large companies would have until December 30, 2025 to comply and SMEs would have until June 30, 2026. The proposal is ...

The European Union Deforestation Regulation, which would ban the sale of commodities linked to forest destruction or degradation, was set to ...

Adopted just last year, the EU Deforestation Regulation was hailed as one of the EU's boldest steps to fight against the climate crisis. This ...

Our analysis shows a 12-month delay to the law could lead to an area of deforestation fourteen times the size of Paris, unleashing carbon ...