Press release: Cepi welcomes EU Parliament’s ITRE Committee vote on a revised Renewable Energy Directive, but implementation of the cascading use principle must be left to Member States

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jul 13, 2022 | Forest Resources, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity

Today, the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, ITRE, voted on the revision of the renewable energy directive, or RED III. The vote was a welcome response to the need for an accelerated development of renewable energy sources in Europe. It...

Press release: EU Parliament ENVI Committee vote shows deforestation is taken seriously, but some new rules would be hard to implement

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jul 12, 2022 | Forest Resources, Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity

The European Parliament’s ENVI Committee vote today is a good sign that the EU is taking the threat represented by deforestation and illegal logging seriously. But some definitions in the proposed text go against international agreements and the experience of the...

Press release: Cepi annual statistics show factors behind the resilience and strong performance of the European pulp and paper industry

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jul 7, 2022 | Forest Resources, Industry Statistics, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Product Innovation, Product Safety, Sustainability and Circularity

Cepi’s annual statistics for the European pulp and paper industry published today offer a unique view of the current state of the market for pulp and paper products and the industry’s performance. They also allow for an objective analysis of deeper trends behind the...

Press release: Cepi voices strong concerns over robustness of tools provided to the industry to achieve the EU’s climate objectives

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jun 23, 2022 | Forest Resources, Industry Transformation, Media Resources

The EU Parliament has now adopted its mandates for negotiations on the revision of the emissions trading scheme (ETS), the EU’s main carbon pricing tool, and the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). Both are instruments to attain the EU’s 2030 climate...

Press release: Cepi calls for more focus, impact assessment and consultation on EU Commission’s nature restoration proposal

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jun 22, 2022 | Forest Resources, Media Resources

A Regulation on nature restoration has now been tabled by the EU Commission, the first European legislation addressing biodiversity in three decades. Parts of the proposed regulation would be relevant to the management of forests. Cepi, the Confederation of European...

Press release: The EU Parliament shows ambition on forest sinks, not on materials substitution

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jun 9, 2022 | Forest Resources, Media Resources, Product Innovation, Sustainability and Circularity

The EU Parliament approved yesterday a very ambitious, yet realistic, target for how much CO2 European forests should help remove from the atmosphere. The goal could be reached only by adapting our forests to climate change threats and increasing their annual growth,...