EU Anti-Deforestation Law Could Overlook Big Violators, NGO Warns

EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law could fail to deliver on its environmental promises if enforcement authorities disproportionately focus on small importers while missing less obvious violations from major commodity firms, according to a new analysis by U.K.-based investigative nonprofit, Earthsight. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which comes into force Dec. 30, 2025, aims to […]

The novel that had multiple chapters last year related to the regulations sanctioned by the European Union (EU) that demands that exports of soybeans and meat to that market be from “deforestation-free” zones, revived in the last hours and not in the best way. It happens that the EU published a list of importing countries and classified them according to their risk precisely related to deforestation, creating a sort of traffic light where the pa…