Updates

By the end of March, all EU countries must implement the European Directive 2024/825, known as the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive, into their respective sets of rules. The rules will take effect on 27 September 2026, and companies will need to review their environmental and social sustainability claims by that date.

ALPI group is a leading Italian company in the production of decorative wood surfaces, with over 50 years of experience and an integrated model covering the entire supply chain: from the management of forest concessions in Cameroon to processing in Italy, through to export. With the entry into force of the EUDR — the new European regulation imposing stricter standards on traceability and deforestation — ALPI chose to further strengthen its own processes, partnering with Etifor and the EMMA method to build a due diligence system that is robust, scalable, and fully compliant with the regulation. We spoke about this with Vittorio Alpi, President of the Group.

The growing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂), is recognized as one of the main drivers of the ongoing climate crisis (IPCC, 2023). Policies and initiatives aimed at reducing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations are therefore essential to counter the climate crisis, and among these, those related to the forestry sector, its management, and its products must play a key role.

We are living in a period of intense instability, marked by increasingly widespread and interconnected armed conflicts and energy crises that are reshaping economic and political balances. In this context, the attention of governments and institutions focuses almost exclusively on immediate emergencies – and this is where a contradiction emerges: we are slowing down precisely on the activities that reduce systemic risk in the medium and long term.