Save the date! The Carrefour International du Bois will return to Nantes in May 2024
The Carrefour International du Bois will return to Nantes in May 2024. Please note that the opening days of the show are changing. The organizers will welcome you on Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 May! For this new show they have a brand-new identity used on all their [...]
Scientific partnerships: Joint Research Centre and Sweden’s Research Institute collaborate to strengthen European sustainable development
At the end of June, the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen European competitiveness and sustainable development through joint research and innovation in areas such as cities and buildings, future-oriented industrial policy, and innovation for sustainability. The [...]
New law to fight global deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU production and consumption enters into force
PRESS RELEASE: EU Commission 29 June 2023 Directorate-General for Environment Today, the pioneering EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains, a key building block in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss, enters into force. It is a reflection of European citizens’ wish no longer to drive global deforestation through their [...]
MEPs of environment committee vote down the Nature Restoration Law
Official source: Press Releases ENVI - 27-06-2023 Following a lengthy vote, there is no majority amongst MEPs on the Environment committee for the Commission’s proposal as amended for a Nature Restoration Law. Following votes on amendments to the Commission’s proposal on Thursday 15 June and continued on Tuesday 27 June, [...]
EOS Presentation at Global Log and Lumber Softwood Conference
On 7-8 June 2023, EOS had the honour to give a presentation at the Global Log and Lumber Softwood Conference held in Vancouver, Canada. The Conference, organized by Forest Economic Advisors, is a very relevant event in the softwood lumber industry with participants and presenters from all over the [...]
The path to COP 28: the Bonn Climate Change Conference
Delegates representing more than 100 Parties to the Paris Agreement met in Bonn, Germany, paving the way to some key decisions for the UN Climate Conference (COP 28) in Dubai, and for the years to come. Extract: "Over the past two weeks, representatives from countries around the world descended on [...]
Call for Tenders: Support Contract for the Establishment of a Benchmarking System According to Article 29 of the Regulation on Deforestation-free Supply Chains
The regulation on deforestation and forest degradation foresees the establishment of a benchmarking system in order to assess countries or part thereof and classify them among three categories: high risk, low risk and standard risk, based on a number of criteria defined by Article 29 of the regulation, within 18 [...]
EOS Partner in SINTETIC
The project SINTETIC for Single Item Identification for Forest Production, Protection, and Management, kicks off The project will develop a new system that will enable customers buying wood products to track them all the way back to the individual trees in the forest from which they were made. SINTETIC, [...]
EU Green Week: Nature, environment and climate action all winners in 2023 LIFE Awards
PRESS RELEASE - 7 June 2023- Directorate-General for Environment Re-wilding forests with Eurasian lynx, boosting farming with hi-tech bio-stimulants and helping one of Europe’s biggest cities adapt to climate change are among the winning projects announced yesterday at the EU’s annual LIFE Awards. The winning projects mark outstanding achievements in [...]
EU climate target for 2040
Feedback period: 31 March 2023 - 23 June 2023 (midnight Brussels time) Problem the initiative aims to tackle: The EU has set out its climate targets for 2030 and 2050, and is agreeing and setting in motion the policy measures needed to meet the 2030 target and accelerate emissions reductions. Considering [...]
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