ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

Tag: Forest Monitoring Law

  • ECOS newsletter – January 2025

    Our new five-year strategy will help deliver our vision of a healthy and clean environment, protected by robust rules that respect nature and its resources. In our 2025 work programme, we lay out how we will create momentum for ambitious, systemic change. We also take a deep dive on some key EU files for 2025 and analyse the EU’s new rules on packaging and ecodesign, which are now at the crucial stage of implementation – where secondary legislation and standards will play an important role.

  • If a tree falls in the woods… we need to know about it

    Healthy forests are essential for our health, our economy, and our well-being; yet they are under threat. To reduce and mitigate these threats in Europe, we need cooperation at the EU level to monitor forest health and guide coordinated action with better forest information. A strong Forest Monitoring Law can provide reliable, consistent data on the many cross-border risks to forests and help to support healthier forests and the benefits they provide.

  • Towards robust EU Forest Monitoring: Indicators for forest health, resilience, and functions

    Forests provide invaluable services to society, yet they are in danger as they face increasing climate-related hazards, alongside human pressures. This is why the EU Forest Monitoring Law is so important. Forest monitoring is necessary to track progress against EU-wide environmental objectives and climate targets. Selecting the right indicators for forest health, resilience, and functions is therefore crucial.

  • Position paper | Towards a robust EU Forest Monitoring Law that works for forests and forest managers

    EU forests are in a poor ecological state and face increasing risks from climate-related hazards and unsustainable forestry practices. The EU Forest Monitoring Law can help fill gaps in the current frameworks and help to assess and prevent transnational forest risks and losses through data exchange and harmonised reporting.

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