Today, on the 22nd of March, people from 5 countries and 5 organisations, including Protect the Forest, Fridays for Future Sweden, Skogsvärn Näsåker, Greenpeace and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, are demonstrating outside SCA’s Annual General Meeting. A group of youth climate justice activists, including Greta Thunberg, also participated inside SCA’s AGM. Wearing shirts…
Tomorrow, the EU’s energy ministers will vote on LULUCF regarding proposed increased carbon sinks in the EU, something that Sweden intends to vote against. “Shameful and ignorant,” says Protect the Forest. The NGO urges the Swedish government to stop turning a blind eye to the gigantic environmental disaster that is underway. In the appeal to…
80 international environmental organisations including Protect the Forest demand that the EU stops voluntary carbon offsets. A fifth of the world’s largest companies have made some kind of promise to become carbon neutral, which means they must pollute less or pay for carbon offset. A popular type of carbon offset involves paying for forests and…
The International Day of Forests is initiated by the UN to raise awareness about forests and trees. This year’s theme is “Forest and climate change”. Several environmental organizations including Protect the Forest demand that EU’s ministers and leaders make decisions against burning forest for energy. Unfortunately, there is little awareness of protecting forests for the…
Members of Protect the Forest have demonstrated with a banner saying “Protect the Forest” outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. We want to draw attention to the fact that Sweden’s forest policy has devastating consequences for biological diversity and the climate. Fridays for Future with Greta was as always on site at Mynttorget. To reduce…
