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Latest land news

Green group: soil health law a ‘unique opportunity’ to set targets

Civil society rails against Swedish forest policies

EFSA unveils long-awaited bee guidance update

EFSA preparing for potential flood of applications from lab-grown meat producers

Watchdog calls for urgent action to restore nature in Europe

NGO: Europe needs a soil health law based on ‘latest’ science

Latest land analysis

Interview: CropLife director on pesticide targets and gene-edited crops

Analysis: Why green campaigners have labelled Sweden an ‘unhelpful thorn’ in EU climate policy

Analysis: Who will pay the price for Europe’s rush for lithium?

MEP Christophe Hansen on the new EU deforestation law

Latest land web picks

Indonesia, Malaysia to visit Brussels over concern about EU deforestation law - Reuters

Spain pleads for EU crisis funds as drought hits farmers - Associated Press

2030 nature targets agreed in December may already be slipping out of reach - The Conversation

Portugal: Forests must be profit-making to become environmentally sustainable - PM - Lusa

EU farms: 5.3 million fewer in 2020 than in 2005 - Eurostat

900k football pitches of forest at risk as EU chooses free trade over the environment - T&E

Fit for 55 package: Council adopts regulations on effort sharing and land use and forestry sector - EU Council

Malaysia palm oil, rubber farmers file EU petition opposing deforestation law - Reuters

Alliance of Spanish organizations to stop deforestation in the world lauched (Spanish) - Ecologistas en Accion

A new tool maps the state of soil health across Europe - European Commission Joint Research Centre




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Latest land Document Watch

Research for AGRI Committee: The impact of extreme climate events on agricultural production in the European Union - European Parliament

LIFE Soil Ex-Post Study - Final Report - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Regulation on nature restoration: Agricultural and forestry aspects - Information from the Presidency - EU Council

Eustafor observations on the newly agreed EU deforestation law - Eustafor

Study on the environmental impacts of achieving 25% organic land - IFOAM - Organics Europe

Trade union position on the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 - IndustriAll

Agricultural aspects of the revision of the Industrial Emission Directive - Information from the Presidency - EU Council

The upcoming European Soil Health Law – chances and challenges for an effective soil protection - German Environment Agency (UBA)

An EU strategic framework for working with countries to achieve deforestation-free production - Fern

Soil monitoring in Europe — Indicators and thresholdsfor soil health assessments - European Environment Agency

Interviews

‘Absolutely political’: EFSA scientist on new bee guidance thresholds

Interview: ECHA’s new director on reform of EU chemicals regulations

Interview: New EU sustainable finance chief on the challenges of taxonomy implementation

BusinessEurope deputy director on EU green investment plans

Carbon capture advocate on a new dawn for the sector

IPCC author on key lessons from the sixth synthesis report

César Luena on strengthening the Nature Restoration Law

Saami Council’s Brussels head on the EU dash for Arctic resources

Interview: Municipal waste lobby chief on EU circular economy goals

Interview: Siemens Energy’s Europe chief on the future of green industry

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Intelligence

Case Study: How an EU-funded project helped to reintroduce vulture species in Bulgaria

An EU LIFE-backed project is reintroducing black vultures to Bulgaria via a cross-border network of conservation groups, after the birds were declared locally extinct almost 40 years ago. Here’s how they did it and what lessons it offers large species reintroduction.

Legal comment: How a pesticides ruling highlights the power of green groups to influence policy change

Case study: How an EU project is demonstrating new regenerative farming techniques

Legal comment: Why green groups are taking Danone to court over plastic pollution

Legal comment: Why six NGOs are accusing FIFA of greenwashing

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