The European Union's new plan to curb deforestation is deeply flawed

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Analysis and Environment

Sustainability researchers person superior doubts astir whether the EU’s caller regularisation volition win successful stopping deforestation

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

An lipid thenar plantation connected deforested onshore successful South-East Asia

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The European Union is aiming to halt immense swathes of tropical wood from being destroyed oregon degraded with a caller instrumentality that came into effect past week. But sustainability researchers person told New Scientist the instrumentality doesn’t code the systemic issues that origin deforestation, and determination is uncertainty astir however effectual it volition be.

From 29 June, ample to medium-sized companies registered successful the EU person 18 months to guarantee their products haven’t been produced connected onshore deforested aft 2020; …

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