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Planned increases in wood harvesting across Europe could reduce the capacity of EU forests to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by upwards of 20%, environmental campaigners warned on Thursday.

Governments’ endorsement of the European Commission's new biodiversity strategy is crucial for the EU to push for a global agreement on habitat destruction at forthcoming UN talks, senior officials said on Tuesday

Climate and energy experts have clashed over the greenhouse impacts of EU policy on bioenergy

The European Commission’s hotly anticipated biodiversity strategy, outlining its multi-billion euro plan to restore, protect and climate-proof nature, has received a generally warm welcome from environmental groups

The European Commission has proposed to increase the area of EU farmland dedicated to organic production to 25% by 2030 while cutting the use of pesticides and fertilisers across the board in a ‘farm to-fork’ strategy for sustainable food production