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The full European Parliament has approved the proposed new law for controlling the importation of rainforest timber products – a step hailed by the environmental lobby against illegal exploitation. … Read More »
A vote at the European Parliament on control of timber imports – aimed at illegal logging in rainforests around the world – has cleared the way (17.2.09) for strengthened legislation to be debated in April. … Read More »
The death toll from the bushfires currently plaguing the Australian state of Victoria has officially risen to 201.
The fires have destroyed four major Australian towns and are among the deadliest fires in the last century and a half on world record.
Comparable to such devastating fires as those in Greece, China, France and the US, EU Australia looks back at some of the worst fires to hit our planet. … Read More »
Environmental groups have been closely watching the progress of amendments to EU legislation on timber imports.
Those groups say a vote in the European Parliament this week (17.2.09) stands to regulate the EU timber market and to tackle the problem of illegal logging – but they think it won’t be enough. … Read More »
December saw high-level gatherings to make formal the new structure of the EU; take further Europe’s relations with African countries, and put up financial backing for the Palestinian authority as it faces the challenge from Hamas. … Read More »
The environmental organisation Greenpeace has accused the European Union of allowing a big import trade to develop using illegally produced timber from Papua New Guinea and South-east Asia.
The European Commission says it has been acting on the problem. … Read More »
The powerful East-West bloc that European and South-east Asian Ministers are talking about might become a reality. Lee Duffield writes from Nuremburg. … Read More »