ANNUAL REPORT 2023 - JANUARY TO DECEMBER

And as we head supporting a diverse delegation of Brazilian, towards our 30th anniversary in 2025, it’s an Argentinian and Paraguayan civil society actors ethos we hold to as tightly as ever – it is the best to expose their dismay over lack of consultation way to play our part in staving off the multiple of the peasant farmers and communities threats facing forests in Europe and around the that wi. [...] Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous We saw that the topic of raw materials was Peoples – and states that Indigenous Peoples emerging strongly and that the rights of must have the right to decide what happens local communities and Indigenous Peoples in their lands. [...] in a big, beautiful barn, with wild bison wallowing Pracownia, our hosts, played a leading role in a in the sun in the surrounding fields, and we stayed massive mobilisation to stop the logging, and in a house owned by the Polish forest movement, eventually the European Court of Justice ruled which served as a critical centre for organising 20 ANNUAL REPORT 2023 Photo by Daria Andreeva . [...] The new people who have joined the or- Having lived and worked in Vietnam and Asia for ganisation in the last couple of years have 10 years, I was au fait with the region and was brought things that youth brings: new able to introduce Fern to Vietnam and Laos. [...] STEMMING THE TIDE ZERO WASTE HEROES EU RULES ON PACKAGING The study concludes that there This report investigates the This briefing presents the is already a lack of woody European businesses making position of NGOs on what needs material available and a lack reuse a reality, and the voices to happen to truly reduce the of forecasts about the likely of those at the cutting edge of negative environ.