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					<title>From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/from-forest-to-flatpack-ikea-faces-timber-traceability-test-under-eudr/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/from-forest-to-flatpack-ikea-faces-timber-traceability-test-under-eudr/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Mar 2026 15:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Annelise Giseburt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Global, Poland, Romania, Southeast Asia, Sweden, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, forest degradation, Forests, Industry, Natural Resources, Regulations, Supply Chain, Sustainability, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[Furniture giant IKEA is famous for its wood products, but it may soon need to tighten oversight of its supply chains due to the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation that comes into force at the end of this year. The Swedish company sources timber from both inside and outside the EU, with major source markets including [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Furniture giant IKEA is famous for its wood products, but it may soon need to tighten oversight of its supply chains due to the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation that comes into force at the end of this year. The Swedish company sources timber from both inside and outside the EU, with major source markets including Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and China. It processed nearly 15 million cubic meters (530 million cubic feet) of wood in the fiscal year 2025. IKEA already emphasizes its commitment to sustainable forestry practices, which include ensuring that close to 100% of its timber has acquired voluntary sustainability certification or is recycled. However, investigations in 2024 revealed issues among some of IKEA’s suppliers in Romania, suggesting that even companies committed to sustainable forestry may benefit from the more rigorous traceability requirements under the upcoming EU Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR. To comply with the EUDR, companies must report geolocation data that proves a relevant commodity, whether domestic or imported, was not produced on land deforested after December 2020. “The IKEA business remains committed to responsible sourcing practices that ensure our products and operations do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation,” IKEA wrote in a statement to Mongabay. IKEA flatpack. Image by IKEA.com. However, the company also highlighted ongoing uncertainties regarding the EUDR requirements and implementation timeline. Adopted in 2023, the EUDR aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect global biodiversity by monitoring the supply chains of seven key deforestation-linked commodities entering the EU market: wood, cattle,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/from-forest-to-flatpack-ikea-faces-timber-traceability-test-under-eudr/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/study-busts-big-bad-myth-that-wolves-are-growing-fearless-of-humans/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/study-busts-big-bad-myth-that-wolves-are-growing-fearless-of-humans/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Oct 2025 11:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Canids, Conflict, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[After years of being hunting to near-extinction, wolves are making a comeback in some of their historical ranges in Europe and North America. With their return comes a growing concern that the predators are moving too close to human settlements, becoming bolder and less fearful of people. Researchers set out to see if that’s true, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After years of being hunting to near-extinction, wolves are making a comeback in some of their historical ranges in Europe and North America. With their return comes a growing concern that the predators are moving too close to human settlements, becoming bolder and less fearful of people. Researchers set out to see if that’s true, running a four-month-long experiment in Poland’s Tuchola Forest. Their findings suggest that the “big bad wolf,” as portrayed in popular culture, still has a healthy fear of humans. Tuchola Forest in northern Poland is representative of the human-dominated wildlife landscape wolves are reoccupying across Europe, with a mix of pine plantations, farms and towns, the authors write in their recent study. Wolves (Canis lupus) were first spotted there in 2005; today, the forest has about 15 wolf packs. To see how fearful they are of humans, researchers attached camera-speaker units to trees along 24 forest road intersection across 1,100 square kilometers (425 square miles) of Tuchola, covering the ranges of 10 wolf packs. The speakers played one of three audio recordings when triggered by motion: women and men speaking calmly in Polish; dogs barking; and a control sound of bird calls, a natural part of the forest. The researchers then made hundreds of recordings to see how wolves and their prey, such as red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and wild boar (Sus scrofa), responded to these playbacks. The study found both wolves and their prey fear humans. Wolves fled 2.4 times as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/study-busts-big-bad-myth-that-wolves-are-growing-fearless-of-humans/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307310</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Last chance to save Europe&#8217;s greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/last-chance-to-save-europes-greatest-old-growth-forest-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2025 14:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alan Weiss]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Forests, Governance, Old Growth Forests, Temperate Forests, Trees, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Białowieża Forest is unparalleled in the world. It harbors the best-preserved fragments of lowland deciduous and mixed forests in the European Lowlands, where natural processes, including all stages of forest ecosystem dynamics, unfold undisturbed by human interference over vast areas. Yet, only 36% of the Białowieża Forest on the Polish side is protected within [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Białowieża Forest is unparalleled in the world. It harbors the best-preserved fragments of lowland deciduous and mixed forests in the European Lowlands, where natural processes, including all stages of forest ecosystem dynamics, unfold undisturbed by human interference over vast areas. Yet, only 36% of the Białowieża Forest on the Polish side is protected within the Białowieża National Park and its related nature reserves. The rest is managed commercially, underscoring the urgent need to minimize human impact. In light of climate change and the biodiversity crisis, placing the entire Białowieża Forest under permanent protection should be a matter of course. Conveying the uniqueness of this place cannot be achieved merely by listing species, providing statistics on protected areas, or enumerating natural attractions. Such data is readily available online, yet it pales in comparison to the haunting sound of wolves (Canis lupus lupus), howling at dusk, the swift current of the Narewka River, the rustling of ancient oaks, and the watchful eyes of a pine marten (Martes martes) surveying the forest from a spruce windfall. Here, you can admire the rare three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus), the vibrant cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae), and the elusive pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum). To truly feel the primal pulse and witness the captivating beauty of the Białowieża Forest, you must visit. This forest, embodying the distinct traits of a primeval ecosystem, has existed for 12,000 years. It might not have survived to this day if Polish kings had not placed it under their protection. In modern&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/last-chance-to-save-europes-greatest-old-growth-forest-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Timber trade watchdog urges Poland to halt imports of Myanmar ‘blood timber’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/timber-trade-watchdog-urges-poland-to-halt-imports-of-myanmar-blood-timber/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Feb 2025 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, Myanmar, Poland, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Loss, Forestry, Forests, Illegal Logging, International Trade, Logging, Military, Rainforests, Timber, Timber Laws, and timber trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Highly prized teak from Myanmar continues to be imported into Poland, despite EU sanctions on the Southeast Asian country’s state-run timber monopoly following the 2021 military coup and violent crackdown on citizens. Environmental law nonprofit ClientEarth last month formally requested the Polish timber trade regulator urgently inspect firms engaging in the trade and take serious [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Highly prized teak from Myanmar continues to be imported into Poland, despite EU sanctions on the Southeast Asian country’s state-run timber monopoly following the 2021 military coup and violent crackdown on citizens. Environmental law nonprofit ClientEarth last month formally requested the Polish timber trade regulator urgently inspect firms engaging in the trade and take serious action to prevent imports of the banned timber. According to data from the Polish Central Statistical Office, the country imported more than $11.5 million worth of Myanmar timber between 2021 and 2024. Most imports were of teak (Tectona grandis), a durable and weather-resistant wood coveted by luxury furniture and yacht manufacturers. In its formal request to the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection, ClientEarth said the persistent trade not only infringes the EU sanctions, but also brings Poland, an EU member state, into violation of the EU Timber Regulations (EUTR). The bloc ruled in 2020 that any import of Myanmar teak into the EU violates the EUTR because it’s not possible to determine whether it was harvested legally. The nonprofit previously raised a complaint about Poland’s non-compliance with the EUTR with the Council of the European Union in June 2023. However, it said it has yet to receive any response to its complaints, either from Polish authorities or through EU channels. “The EUTR rules are a key tool in the fight against the trade in illegal timber, but they need to be implemented effectively,” said Ranja Łuszczek, a lawyer at ClientEarth. “The lack of adequate action&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/timber-trade-watchdog-urges-poland-to-halt-imports-of-myanmar-blood-timber/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-294758</doi>				</item>
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					<title>COP24: Green groups warn of pitfalls in ‘forests for climate’ deal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/cop24-green-groups-warn-of-pitfalls-in-forests-for-climate-deal/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/cop24-green-groups-warn-of-pitfalls-in-forests-for-climate-deal/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Jan 2019 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biofuels, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, Plantations, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — A plan adopted by delegates at last month’s climate summit in Poland to weaponize forests in the fight against global warming could have a disastrous outcome, environmentalists say. The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate builds on the universal understanding that forests are a key carbon dioxide sink and must be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — A plan adopted by delegates at last month’s climate summit in Poland to weaponize forests in the fight against global warming could have a disastrous outcome, environmentalists say. The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate builds on the universal understanding that forests are a key carbon dioxide sink and must be considered a major part of efforts to cap the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2030. Sixty-four countries have expressed their willingness to endorse what’s become known as the “forests for climate” declaration as of Dec. 17, after the conclusion of the summit in Katowice, Poland, with more expected to follow suit. “We want to show how to strive to achieve a balance between emission and absorption through the application of innovative solutions in the field of forest management, and by relying on the natural process of CO2 absorption by soil and forests,” said Henryk Kowalczyk, the Polish environment minister. Paola Deda, chief of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) forestry and timber section, said the forest declaration was made not only to keep forests healthy, but also to promote the use of sustainable forest products. “We have to make sure we have sustainable resources but also making the resources healthy,” she said. But observers say the wording of the declaration, if not its spirit, presents an opportunity for wide-scale logging — effectively going against the call to expand forest cover to fight climate change. Henryk Kowalczyk, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/cop24-green-groups-warn-of-pitfalls-in-forests-for-climate-deal/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-214079</doi>				</item>
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					<title>COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-summit-a-step-forward-but-fails-to-address-climate-urgency/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Dec 2018 11:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[European Union, Global, Poland, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Science, Conservation, Controversial, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Ethics, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Law, Mitigation, Monitoring, Politics, Pollution, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Poland climate meeting addressed some issues, including Paris rulebook, but fell far short. UN’s António Guterres to convene special September climate action meeting in New York.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The neon COP24 logo was a popular place for delegates to meet and pose during the two-week climate summit in Katowice, Poland. The summit ended with mixed results. Image by Justin Catanoso. KATOWICE, Poland – COP24, the most important United Nations climate summit since Paris in 2015 ­– and one shadowed by dire scientific warnings of impending climate disaster – produced “1,000 tiny steps forward” but not the robust global consensus on climate action that observers demanded in order to meet the urgency of the moment. That urgency will have to wait until September, when UN General Secretary António Guterres convenes a special week-long meeting in New York City of the same delegates and leaders who were in Poland. That gathering will focus on a single task: increasing climate-action ambition. “From now on, my five priorities will be: ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition,” Guterres said in a statement read to delegates at the conclusion of COP24, the Conference of the Parties. “Ambition in mitigation. Ambition in adaptation. Ambition in finance. Ambition in technical cooperation and capacity building. Ambition in technological innovation.” Poland’s COP24 President Michal Kurtyka being interviewed by a Polish journalist. After the negotiations ended, he told global delegates, “Under these circumstances, every single step forward is a big achievement.” Critics attacked the overlarge presence of Polish coal companies at the event. Image by Justin Catanoso. Delegates and ministers from nearly 200 nations grappled with each of those issues during their two weeks in Katowice, and claimed myriad levels&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-summit-a-step-forward-but-fails-to-address-climate-urgency/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: Sitting down to take a stand for real climate action</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-sitting-down-to-take-a-stand-for-real-climate-action/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Dec 2018 07:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Impact Of Climate Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — It’s noon on a Friday in the city of Katowice, Poland, and a teenage girl with her hair braided in pigtails is sitting alone on the floor of the Spodek conference arena, site of this year’s United Nations climate talks. Nearby, thousands of government officials are busy negotiating the future of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — It’s noon on a Friday in the city of Katowice, Poland, and a teenage girl with her hair braided in pigtails is sitting alone on the floor of the Spodek conference arena, site of this year’s United Nations climate talks. Nearby, thousands of government officials are busy negotiating the future of the planet by trying to agree on a single guideline to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, a historical global pledge signed by 195 countries in 2015 to combat climate change. That they still haven’t been able to agree over how to move ahead with a pact they signed three years ago grates on Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old from Sweden. “I think I’m doing more good sitting here than being inside the negotiation room,” she tells Mongabay. Despite her diminutive stature and shy demeanor, Thunberg has captured the world’s attention at the U.N. talks here in Poland, formally known as the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24). She’s been sitting in an act of protest against politicians and policymakers who she says have failed to act swiftly to humanity’s greatest threat, and says they’re “behaving like children.” Her protests didn’t start at COP24. Thunberg began cutting class back home to sit outside the Swedish parliament to protest against what she saw as a lack of ambitious climate actions by her government. This year, Sweden experienced its hottest summer since records began 262 years ago, with heat waves and wildfires roiling the country. “I am doing this because you&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-sitting-down-to-take-a-stand-for-real-climate-action/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-will-they-stay-or-will-they-go-brazils-threat-to-leave-paris/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Dec 2018 11:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Agribusiness and Amazon Infrastructure]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Poland, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, agribusiness, Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Science, Conservation, Controversial, Drought, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Ethics, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Law, Mining, Mitigation, Monitoring, Murdered Activists, Politics, Pollution, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Soy, Supply Chain, Sustainable Development, Trade, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro pledged to leave the Paris accord during his presidential run. But his Amazon agribusiness and mining expansion plans may pose a far bigger threat to forests and global climate.]]>
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							<![CDATA[President-elect Jair Bolsonaro pretends to shoot a gun, a signature gesture he uses to punctuate a point in his speeches. The gesture has become a sort of meme and accompanies incendiary language which critics say may be inciting some Brazilians in remote rural areas to violence against indigenous groups and other minorities. Image by Carlos Eugênio. KATOWICE, Poland – One by one, Brazilian representatives from science, government and civil society gamely responded publicly in a press conference this week to a question they’d been fielding privately since arriving at the 24th United Nations climate summit, COP24, here in Poland: Would the volatile and staunchly anti-environmental President-elect Jair Bolsonaro follow the path of another volatile and staunchly anti-environmental president to the north and join the United States as the only other nation on earth to promise to leave the historic Paris Agreement? The answer is critically important not only to Brazilians, but to the world. The South American country is the world’s eighth largest economy and is guardian to much of the Amazon rainforest – the world’s largest carbon storehouse. “I don’t think he will leave,” said Alfredo Sirkis, a former presidential candidate and member of Brazil’s Congress, now executive director of the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change. “But I didn’t think the Trump government would leave either. It depends on a lot of political circumstances. There will be very strong pressure, especially from agribusiness, to remain in the Paris Agreement. At the same time, this is a very idiosyncratic group&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-will-they-stay-or-will-they-go-brazils-threat-to-leave-paris/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-213532</doi>				</item>
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					<title>COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-fossil-fuel-inc-s-outsize-presence-at-talks-reflects-its-influence/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Dec 2018 06:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Controversial, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Oil, Politics, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — “How did you get here?” asked the angry fossil fuel company executive. “Have you ever been to Nigeria?” responded the agitated environmental activist. This was part of an exchange between Swedish environmental activists and a senior executive from oil-and-gas giant Royal Dutch Shell at the ongoing United Nations climate summit in Katowice, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — “How did you get here?” asked the angry fossil fuel company executive. “Have you ever been to Nigeria?” responded the agitated environmental activist. This was part of an exchange between Swedish environmental activists and a senior executive from oil-and-gas giant Royal Dutch Shell at the ongoing United Nations climate summit in Katowice, Poland. Not exactly fighting words, but not a friendly conversation either. What it exposed, though, was just how deeply entrenched parties with a vested interest in fossil fuels are in influencing the global climate pact. It started after Shell, among the top 10 fossil fuel companies in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, presented its future scenario on climate change, called SKY, during a side event at the climate talks on Dec. 11. Shell’s chief climate change adviser, David Hone, and its projects and technology director, Harry Brekelmans, said solutions ranging from carbon capture technology to hydrogen fuel and market-based mechanisms would be essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), as targeted by the Paris Climate Agreement. Brekelmans responded to charges that Shell had willfully withheld since 1988 knowledge that its fossil fuels were contributing to climate change, saying that no one company was responsible for the current climate situation. “So we are all responsible for this,” he said. “We can’t be pointing fingers at each other to say that you are unilaterally causing [climate change]. Because we are all enjoying the energy in this room with electricity powered by fossil fuel.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-fossil-fuel-inc-s-outsize-presence-at-talks-reflects-its-influence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: Trumpers tout clean coal; protesters call it ‘climate suicide’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-trumpers-tout-clean-coal-protesters-call-it-climate-suicide/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-trumpers-tout-clean-coal-protesters-call-it-climate-suicide/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Dec 2018 09:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global, Poland, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Conservation, Forest Carbon, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Demonstrators, subnationals, NGOs and COP24 delegates have moved beyond the Trump administration delegation’s public farce advocating coal as a viable climate solution.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate activists lined up early outside the Trump Administration&#8217;s only event at COP24. which mostly promoted the use of coal as a climate change solution. Image courtesy of Climate Nexus. KATOWICE, Poland – Trump Administration representatives, impossible to embarrass and weirdly courageous, braved mocking laughter, blatant disrespect and even a walk-out on Monday as they reprised their surreal public performance of a year ago by promoting coal burning for energy at a climate conference that seeks in part to drastically reduce coal usage to fight climate change. The unvarnished disgust with which the administration was met began before the event, as reporters were flooded with prepared remarks at the start of the final week of the United Nations climate summit, or COP24, here in Poland. Advance responses came easy, as the Trump team repeated the same cynical panel discussion talking points put on in 2017 at COP23 in Bonn, Germany. “It’s ludicrous for Trump officials to claim that they want to clean up fossil fuels, while dismantling standards that would do just that,” said Dan Lashof, director, World Resources Institute US. “Since taking office, this administration has proposed to roll back measures to cut methane leaks from oil and gas operations, made it easier for companies to dump coal ash into drinking water, and just days ago proposed easing carbon pollution rules for new coal-fired power plants… This sideshow in Poland would be laughable if the consequences of climate change weren’t so deadly serious,” Lashof said. Jean Su, energy director&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-trumpers-tout-clean-coal-protesters-call-it-climate-suicide/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-us-russia-saudis-downplay-ipcc-report-in-display-of-disunity/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-us-russia-saudis-downplay-ipcc-report-in-display-of-disunity/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Dec 2018 10:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kuwait, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Conservation, Forest Carbon, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Vulnerable nations were eager to praise the IPCC report, the US was not. Environmental activist Tom Steyer sees another blue wave as the only route to global climate action.]]>
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							<![CDATA[An estimated 3,000 protesters watched closely by Polish police clogged the streets around the COP24 on Saturday calling for greater climate change action urgency. Image by Hans Nicholas Jong/Mongabay. KATOWICE, Poland – Three years ago in Paris, the U.S. delegation was instrumental in drafting thousands of words that ultimately became one of the most significant agreements ever to be approved by all nations on earth: the Paris Agreement on climate change. Saturday, at the end of the first week of negotiations at the 24th United Nations climate summit, or COP24, a very different U.S. delegation played a leading role involving just one word, emphasizing  the Trump Administration’s hostility toward climate action in all forms. The U.S., along with oil producing allies Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have succeeded, so far, in blocking broad consensus that would fully acknowledge the gravity of the landmark October report by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That document, agreed to by the world’s top scientists, warns that climate conditions are far worse than previously realized, with time running out for nations to act to curb carbon emissions and prevent disastrous global warming. Saturday, in a heated meeting of delegates representing large and small nations, negotiators argued over one word regarding the required acceptance of the IPCC’s so called “1.5 degree report,” which warns that nations have just 12 years to act to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change. The Maldives, a South Asian island country threatened by sea level&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-us-russia-saudis-downplay-ipcc-report-in-display-of-disunity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: Human rights concerns cast a shadow over U.N. climate summit</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-human-rights-concerns-cast-a-shadow-over-u-n-climate-summit/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Dec 2018 08:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate, Climate Change, Conflict, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — Concerns about the apparent sidelining of human rights have been aired as the United Nations climate summit in Poland enters its second week. According to the Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide coalition of more than 1,300 NGOs, the inclusion of a human rights reference in a set of guidelines for action [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — Concerns about the apparent sidelining of human rights have been aired as the United Nations climate summit in Poland enters its second week. According to the Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide coalition of more than 1,300 NGOs, the inclusion of a human rights reference in a set of guidelines for action was challenged by the United States, which argued that any such inclusion was an attempt to operationalize something that by definition wasn’t operational. “The U.S. legal gymnastics to exclude the preamble suggests a hidden intention: further sidelining human rights from climate action,” the CAN said. The coalition denounced the move as especially ironic, given that it came on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which falls on Dec. 10. “In case the U.S. delegation here has forgotten, it was the United States and Eleanor Roosevelt who fought for the Declaration in 1948,” the CAN said. The Paris Climate Agreement, struck in 2015, acknowledges the role of human rights in a climate change treaty, a result of years of advocacy by civil society organizations. Its preamble says “climate change is a common concern of humankind” and that “Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights.” However, the latest draft of the Paris Agreement rulebook, a set of guidelines on how to put the climate accord into action, makes no references to human rights, according to Sébastien Duyck, a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-human-rights-concerns-cast-a-shadow-over-u-n-climate-summit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP24: Coal casts a shadow over U.N. climate talks in Poland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/coal-casts-a-shadow-over-u-n-climate-talks-in-poland/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2018 11:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — Joanna Flisowska is a native of the coal-mining city of Katowice in Poland. She says she welcomes her city hosting the latest United Nations climate talks, seen as the most important discussions since the 2015 Paris climate summit. The city of Katowice grew out of the discovery of rich coal reserves in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATOWICE, Poland — Joanna Flisowska is a native of the coal-mining city of Katowice in Poland. She says she welcomes her city hosting the latest United Nations climate talks, seen as the most important discussions since the 2015 Paris climate summit. The city of Katowice grew out of the discovery of rich coal reserves in the area in the mid-18th century. Since then, Katowice and its surrounding areas have turned into a major coal production center, home to around half of all the coal workers, and the biggest coal company, in the European Union. The irony of a coal city hosting a summit on climate change isn’t lost on Flisowska, a coal policy coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. Instead, she sees it as an opportunity to take a stand. “We can be such a bright example for the transition away from coal if only we could put effort into using these opportunities,” she told Mongabay at the climate talks. The burning of coal accounts for almost half of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. And Poland generates 80 percent of its energy from coal. It’s the 10th-largest consumer of the fossil fuel in the world, and the second-biggest in the EU, after Germany. So it was little surprise that the Katowice summit’s host, Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda, used his opening speech on Dec. 3 to declare that his nation’s dependence on coal doesn’t go against global efforts to combat global warming. “The use of our natural resources, that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/coal-casts-a-shadow-over-u-n-climate-talks-in-poland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-213096</doi>				</item>
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					<title>COP24: World’s nations gather to grapple with looming climate disaster</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-worlds-nations-gather-to-grapple-with-looming-climate-disaster/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-worlds-nations-gather-to-grapple-with-looming-climate-disaster/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Dec 2018 10:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Poland, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Conservation, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Land Use Change, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[As scientists’ warnings over climate catastrophe mount, will nonstate actors at COP24 in Poland be able to goad nations to finally take decisive climate change action?]]>
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							<![CDATA[Delegates heading towards the plenary hall of the 24th UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland. Image by Hans Nicholas Jong/Mongabay. Alarming signals – arising from the Earth and from scientists – have prompted urgent calls for a decisive international response to climate change as leaders from nearly 200 nations gathered in Katowice, Poland yesterday, Sunday, 2 December, for the start of the 24th annual United Nations climate summit. This Conference of the Parties, known as COP24, is the third such meeting since the Obama administration, with China as a vital partner, helped engineer the historic Paris Agreement of December 2015. That accord marked the first time ever in which the world’s 196 nations achieved consensus on the need to reduce their carbon emissions with a goal of keeping global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. Unfortunately, since Paris, the physical and political weather has worsened, with global heat, drought and storm surging; and with nations falling drastically short of Paris commitments (just 7 are on target to meet the 2 degree C goal). Since Paris, President Donald Trump has promised to withdraw the U.S. from the accord. And last month, in a sign of more disunity, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro canceled Brazil’s offer to host COP25; in the past, he’s threatened to pull his nation out of Paris. “I’m very worried,” said Michael Jenkins, president and CEO of the NGO ForestTrends. “When you have the global [COP] structure coming apart, with no leadership from the U.S.,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/cop24-worlds-nations-gather-to-grapple-with-looming-climate-disaster/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-213013</doi>				</item>
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					<title>After logging, activists hope to extend protections for Bialowieza Forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/after-logging-activists-hope-to-extend-protections-for-bialoweiza-forest/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/after-logging-activists-hope-to-extend-protections-for-bialoweiza-forest/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Jun 2018 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global Forest Reporting Network]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Beetles, Birds, Bison, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Global Warming, Logging, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Temperate Forests, Trees, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
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							<![CDATA[But for the rumble of frogs or the song of a bluethroat, Bialowieza Forest in Poland has become quiet again after two years of heavy machinery, chainsaws and falling trees. But it’s not the same forest as it was before the drastic explosion in logging began—and it will likely take decades, if not longer, to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[But for the rumble of frogs or the song of a bluethroat, Bialowieza Forest in Poland has become quiet again after two years of heavy machinery, chainsaws and falling trees. But it’s not the same forest as it was before the drastic explosion in logging began—and it will likely take decades, if not longer, to recover. So, activists say now is the time to call for the Bialowieza National Park to be extended across the entire ecosystem. “The entire Forest of Bialowieza must become a national park. It is [the] most valuable forest [in] Poland and lowland Europe, the home of unique species of animals, plants and fungi,” said Krzysztof Cibor, a spokesperson for Greenpeace- Poland. “We cannot lose this treasure.” The logging bonanza The firestorm over Bialowieza—which tested the European Union—began over two years ago. In March of 2016, then-Polish Environment Minister Jan Szyzko approved a plan to triple industrial logging in Poland’s Bialoweiza forest. The government argued it was the only way to combat a spruce bark beetle outbreak, but environmentalists believed that was largely an excuse to give access to the state-run logging regime. Two months later the government dismissed 32 scientists from an advisory board for their opposition to the plan. Although the logging plan spared the national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site portion of Bialoweiza, it targeted the remaining unprotected forest, which comprises the majority of the ecosystem in Poland. Logs lie on the ground after being felled in Bialoweiza Forest. Photo by Grzegorz&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/after-logging-activists-hope-to-extend-protections-for-bialoweiza-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-207897</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mothers vs. loggers: the destruction of Białowieża Forest splits Poland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/mothers-vs-loggers-the-destruction-of-bialowieza-forest-splits-poland/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/mothers-vs-loggers-the-destruction-of-bialowieza-forest-splits-poland/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Jul 2017 11:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rachel Fritts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biodiversity, Bison, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Hunting, Logging, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a recently logged clearing outside Krakow, Poland, a woman sits on a tree stump, nursing her child. She looks down affectionately, her purple knitted cap and magenta jacket vividly defined against the subdued brown hues of the surrounding arboreal graveyard. She is not alone. Several other women are dotted about the clearing, sitting on [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a recently logged clearing outside Krakow, Poland, a woman sits on a tree stump, nursing her child. She looks down affectionately, her purple knitted cap and magenta jacket vividly defined against the subdued brown hues of the surrounding arboreal graveyard. She is not alone. Several other women are dotted about the clearing, sitting on tree stumps of their own. Each mother holds a child in her arms. These are the women who speak for the trees. Matki Polki na wyrębie or “Polish Mothers at the Felling” is a grassroots group of local mothers formed earlier this year to protest newly intensified logging practices that are slashing their way across the Eastern European country. The Polish Mothers at the Felling protest deforestation by feeding their children on tree stumps in recently-logged clearings. Photo credit: Tomasz Wiech. In March 2016, Polish environment minister Jan Szyszko green-lighted a three-fold logging increase in Białowieża, the largest of Europe’s last old-growth forests. This January, a logging amendment nicknamed “Szyszko’s Law” went into effect, allowing private landowners to cut down any tree on their property without giving permission or notice of any kind. “[Forests are] part of our culture and our heritage, and our pride,” said Daria Gosek of Polish Mothers at the Felling. “Sadly instead of preserving them, foresters more and more often are pursuing profit and a wish to earn money from selling timber, and cutting them down.” Logging now continues at breakneck speed, threatening to snuff out all but the 17 percent&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/mothers-vs-loggers-the-destruction-of-bialowieza-forest-splits-poland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-197469</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ignoring scientists, Poland begins logging famous primeval forest  </title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/ignoring-scientists-poland-begins-logging-famous-primeval-forest/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/ignoring-scientists-poland-begins-logging-famous-primeval-forest/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Jun 2016 19:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global Forest Reporting Network]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Europe and Poland]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Bison, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Habitat Loss, Logging, Megafauna, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Temperate Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The quiet of Europe&#8217;s last old-growth lowland forest is being interrupted by the whirr whirr whirr of chainsaws – and trees, some hundreds-of-years old, are coming down by government decree. Loggers have entered Bialowieza Forest in eastern Poland, a place home to wolves (Canis lupus), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), moose (Alces alces), red deer (Cervus [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The quiet of Europe&#8217;s last old-growth lowland forest is being interrupted by the whirr whirr whirr of chainsaws – and trees, some hundreds-of-years old, are coming down by government decree. Loggers have entered Bialowieza Forest in eastern Poland, a place home to wolves (Canis lupus), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), moose (Alces alces), red deer (Cervus elaphus), wild boar (Sus scrofa), and the Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus). Bialowieza, which means &#8220;white tower,&#8221; was also the staging ground for the slow and steady comeback of the continent’s biggest mammal, the European bison (Bison bonasus) and houses the world’s largest population of this megafauna. Unlike the rest of Poland and much of Europe, a significant portion – approximately half – of Bialowieza Forest has never been knowingly logged. In late March, Poland’s new far-right government announced a radically stepped-up plan to log inside Bialowieza, which has largely escaped historical logging due to its status as a hunting ground for royal Poles and Russian kings. The new plan will allow loggers to harvest more than 180,000 cubic meters of wood from the forest by 2021, three-and-a-half times the original plan of 40,000 cubic meters. While the project will avoid logging inside Bialowieza National Park, it will cut large, old trees out of the ecosystem directly surrounding the small protected area. “Every increase of logging in the Bialowieza Forest leads to loss of natural unique forest,” Rafał Kowalczyk, the director of the Mammal Research Institute in Bialowieza Forest, told Mongabay. He called the current plan&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/ignoring-scientists-poland-begins-logging-famous-primeval-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-186825</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The triumph of the bison: Europe&#8217;s biggest animal bounces back a century after vanishing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/the-triumph-of-the-bison-europes-biggest-animal-bounces-back-a-century-after-vanishing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/the-triumph-of-the-bison-europes-biggest-animal-bounces-back-a-century-after-vanishing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 May 2015 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, and Poland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Conservation, Ecology, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hunting, Mammals, Megafauna, Poaching, Rewilding, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Temperate Forests, Tourism, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[We&#8217;d been hiking through deep snow all day with the mercury well below zero, not an uncommon occurrence during winter in eastern Poland. Still I was sweating, covered in several layers and walking with greater strides than I was used to. We stopped once for lunch, taking our repast on a snow-covered log, eating our [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[We&#8217;d been hiking through deep snow all day with the mercury well below zero, not an uncommon occurrence during winter in eastern Poland. Still I was sweating, covered in several layers and walking with greater strides than I was used to. We stopped once for lunch, taking our repast on a snow-covered log, eating our sandwiches and drinking greedily from our flasks, the tea still piping hot. All strangers until the day before, we chatted, laughed a little, then followed the trail onwards through the edges of Białowieża Forest. On a path flanked by thick woods, I first spied our quarry. When she appeared, far away between the long verticals of bare trees, I could hardly believe she was there. She was a ghost, a specter haunting this winter forest. Her horns were prettily curved, her face slender, her whole 400 kilogram (880 pound) mass framed by the trees. She eyed us with that wariness only prey species have, a super-abundance of caution, and if she had run we would have easily lost her amidst the forest. But she didn&#8217;t flee. Instead she stood still, puffs of breath emanating from her nose, for a few minutes. It&#8217;s a moment I will never forget: a continent&#8217;s megafauna in the flesh. European bison running across a trail in Białowieża Forest. Photo by: Lukasz Mazurek/Wild Poland. European bison (Bison bonasus), or wisent as they are also called, very nearly became real ghosts. Instead, the last half-century has marked an incredible comeback story. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/the-triumph-of-the-bison-europes-biggest-animal-bounces-back-a-century-after-vanishing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23695</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe&#8217;s last old-growth forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/stuff-of-fairy-tales-stepping-into-europes-last-old-growth-forest/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/stuff-of-fairy-tales-stepping-into-europes-last-old-growth-forest/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jul 2014 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, and Poland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Carnivores, Deforestation, Ecotourism, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, Logging, Mammals, Old Growth Forests, Parks, Photos, Predators, Protected Areas, Top Predators, Tourism, Travel, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[On bison, wolves, and woodpeckers: the wonder of Europe&#8217;s only lowland virgin forest. Bialowieza Forest at dawn. Old-growth forest is characterized by ancient trees, tall canopies, little undergrowth, and a huge amount of dead wood. Photo by: Lukasz Mazurek/Wild Poland There is almost nothing left of Europe&#8217;s famed forests, those that provided for human communities [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On bison, wolves, and woodpeckers: the wonder of Europe&#8217;s only lowland virgin forest. Bialowieza Forest at dawn. Old-growth forest is characterized by ancient trees, tall canopies, little undergrowth, and a huge amount of dead wood. Photo by: Lukasz Mazurek/Wild Poland There is almost nothing left of Europe&#8217;s famed forests, those that provided for human communities for millennia and gave life to the world&#8217;s most famous fairytales. This doesn&#8217;t mean that there aren&#8217;t forests in Europe, far from it: approximately 35 percent of the EU is currently covered in forest. But almost all of this is either plantations or secondary growth, having been logged sometime in the last few hundred years and in many areas logged in the last couple decades. This is why, according to author and guide, Lukasz Mazurek, the Bialowieza Forest is so special: &#8220;You really feel here like you travelled back in time some hundreds or thousands of years.&#8221; Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the Bialowieza Forest is Europe&#8217;s last lowland old-growth forest, parts of which have never been cut by man. The entire forest covers about 140,000 hectares, or around 15 percent the size of Yellowstone National Park. Here, trees are king: growing over 40 meters (over 130 feet) tall, some were saplings when Christopher Columbus was born. Moreover, most of Europe&#8217;s forests are now bereft of their megafauna: bears, wolves, red deer, moose have all seen their ranges squeezed considerably in the last few centuries. Other species have vanished altogether: it&#8217;s hard to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/stuff-of-fairy-tales-stepping-into-europes-last-old-growth-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24963</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Citizen groups walk out of UN Climate Summit to protest lack of ambition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/citizen-groups-walk-out-of-un-climate-summit-to-protest-lack-of-ambition/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/citizen-groups-walk-out-of-un-climate-summit-to-protest-lack-of-ambition/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Nov 2013 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Poland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Green, Industry, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Japan and Poland blamed for sabotaging UN Climate Summit talks. Thirteen citizen groups&#8212;including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF&#8212;have walked out of ongoing climate talks in Warsaw to protest what they view as a lack of ambition and long-stalled progress on combating global climate change. Nearly 200 governments are currently meeting in Warsaw, Poland at the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Japan and Poland blamed for sabotaging UN Climate Summit talks. Thirteen citizen groups&#8212;including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF&#8212;have walked out of ongoing climate talks in Warsaw to protest what they view as a lack of ambition and long-stalled progress on combating global climate change. Nearly 200 governments are currently meeting in Warsaw, Poland at the the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is meant to prepare the way for a new agreement in 2015. &#8220;Enough is enough,&#8221; the groups wrote in a statement as some 800 members from conservation, youth, trade and poverty groups walked out. &#8220;The Warsaw Climate Conference, which should have been an important step in the just transition to a sustainable future, is on track to deliver virtually nothing. In fact, the actions of many rich countries here in Warsaw are directly undermining the UNFCCC itself, which is an important multilateral process that must succeed if we are to fix the global climate crisis.&#8221; The groups largely blamed rich countries for the problems at Warsaw, which they say &#8220;have come with nothing to offer,&#8221; leveling particular scorn on Japan, Australia, and host nation Poland. &#8220;When Japan announced that it was following Canada and backtracking on emission cut commitments previously made, and Australia gave multiple signals that it was utterly unwilling to take the UN climate process seriously, the integrity of the talks was further jeopardized,&#8221; the groups wrote. NGO members walking out of UN Climate Summit in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/citizen-groups-walk-out-of-un-climate-summit-to-protest-lack-of-ambition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26029</doi>				</item>
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					<title>UN talks tough to global coal industry</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/un-talks-tough-to-global-coal-industry/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/un-talks-tough-to-global-coal-industry/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Nov 2013 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Europe and Poland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Politics]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Yesterday, at the International Coal and Climate Summit&#8212;just a couple miles from the ongoing UN Climate Summit&#8212;Christiana Figueres delivered a speech unlike anything ever heard at a coal industry meeting before. Figueres, the Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), took time off from wrangling world leaders and officials toward a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yesterday, at the International Coal and Climate Summit&#8212;just a couple miles from the ongoing UN Climate Summit&#8212;Christiana Figueres delivered a speech unlike anything ever heard at a coal industry meeting before. Figueres, the Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), took time off from wrangling world leaders and officials toward a climate agreement to talk tough to an industry currently worth around $3 trillion. &#8220;Let me be clear from the outset that my joining you today is neither a tacit approval of coal use, nor a call for the immediate disappearance of coal,&#8221; Figueres told the summit. &#8220;But I am here to say that coal must change rapidly and dramatically for everyone’s sake.&#8221; Even before Figueres&#8217; speech, the International Coal and Climate Summit had attracted considerable controversy. Critics say Poland, whose government is a huge proponent of coal, purposefully planned the coal summit to occur simultaneously with the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in order to undercut progress at the Climate Summit. &#8220;Hosting a coal and climate summit side-by-side is like throwing a cigarette expo next to a meeting of cancer experts,&#8221; noted Jamie Henn, Strategy Director for climate NGO 350.org earlier in the month. Some also criticized Figureres, a Costa Rican native who has headed up climate negotiations since 2010, for even agreeing to speak at the coal summit. Currently, Poland depends on coal for around 85-90 percent of its energy and has largely eschewed any efforts to move toward renewable&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/un-talks-tough-to-global-coal-industry/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26046</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Burning coal responsible for over 20,000 deaths a year in Europe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jun 2013 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Vidal]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, England, Europe, Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and United Kingdom]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Coal, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Health, and Pollution]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned by Greenpeace International, suggests that a further 2,700 people can be expected to die prematurely each year if a new generation of 50 planned coal plants are built in Europe. &#8220;The coal-fired power plants in Europe cause a considerable amount of health impacts,&#8221; the researchers concluded. Analysis of the emissions shows that air pollution from coal plants is now linked to more deaths than road traffic accidents in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. In Germany and the UK, coal-fired power stations are associated with nearly as many deaths as road accidents. Polish coal power plants were estimated to cause more than 5,000 premature deaths in 2010. The cumulative impact of pollution on health is &#8220;shocking&#8221;, says an accompanying Greenpeace report. A total of 240,000 years of life were said to be lost in Europe in 2010 with 480,000 work days a year and 22,600 &#8220;life years&#8221; lost in Britain, the fifth most coal-polluted country. Drax, Britain&#8217;s largest coal-powered station, was said to be responsible for 4,450 life years lost, and Longannet in Scotland 4,210. According to the study, Polish coal power plants have the worst health impact in the European Union. The Polish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28840</doi>				</item>
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