Trump's push for carveouts and delays is an effort to hold the world back from the safe, sustainable supply chains we’ve now seen are possible. The EUDR has already helped open up that better future–we need the EU to stand strong. Thank you, @doggett.house.gov , for your leadership.

As 25M acres of forests are destroyed each year, I led my colleagues in urging the European Union to stand tall against Trump's bullying. Our forests serve as our planet's lungs and home to so many unique plants and animals. The EU Deforestation Regulation is critical to protect forests worldwide.

I have an op-ed in The Guardian today about the dangers of forest policy that fails to hold the most powerful accountable. The U.S. is highlighting just how urgently our system, built on the assumption that the Global North is a responsible actor, needs to change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

The ICJ proceedings are a fascinating "masks-off" moment for developed countries. Stripped of the cover of UNFCCC jargon and procedures, and isolated from the comfort of collective cop-outs, the wealthiest countries are starkly monologuing their indifference to business-as-usual's global toll. 1/3

This International Day of Forests, organizations from around the world are calling for a long-overdue element in global efforts to curb deforestation and forest degradation: accountability. www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer...

“Canada’s Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/w...

#COP28UAE didn’t just bring down the curtain on fossil fuels–it also enshrined a new era of equitable, global ambition on the protection of the world’s climate-critical forests. www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer...

Through establishing a Glasgow Declaration Accountability Framework, countries can avoid the pitfalls that have plagued forest policy for decades, creating a system grounded in equity and truly global cooperation. #COP28 t.co/JiMMQuGjeW

More than 100 scientists from around the world have called on Canada to stop undermining global progress on forest protection & align its policy with scientific consensus around the degrading impact of industrial logging in primary and old-growth forests. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

"The vision of Nigeria and the rest of Africa through the development of this accountability framework is to ensure that the World truly unites and responds as one." —Sikeade Egbuwalo, Ministry of Environment of Nigeria t.co/RLghdbsB1R