Brazil's Soy Industry Gives Deforestation a Green Light

Brazil's soy industry gives deforestation a green light

For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a dangerous threshold. Scientists warn that continued deforestation could push the world’s largest rainforest past a tipping point, transforming it into a degraded, fire-prone savanna that emits more carbon than it stores. One of the most effective barriers preventing that outcome is now being dismantled. For nearly 20 years, the Amazon Soy Moratorium has helped protect millions of hectares of forest. It stop…