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‘Forests are non-negotiable’: World off course to meet 2030 deforestation pledge

Global forest loss is 63 per cent off 2030 targets as finance and policy pledges fall behind.

Euronews

Global Goal To End Deforestation Nowhere Near Being Met: Experts

Deforestation "has not meaningfully declined" despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month's UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said Tuesday.

International Business Times

Who Is Setting Fire To The Amazon?

"Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon.

International Business Times

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The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of

UK banks, energy giants and arms exporters are at the heart of one of the world’s least-known human rights and environmental crises, our research has revealed.

The Conversation

As cocoa production in Liberia fosters mass deforestation, campaigners urge Europe to act

Cocoa production is fueling illegal deforestation in Liberia, new investigation reveals.

Euronews

From beef to timber, a new era of labels will reveal where your shopping comes from

Have you noticed more QR codes or country-of-origin labels on the meat at the supermarket or timber decking from the hardware shop? You’re not imagining it.

The Conversation

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance

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Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis, study finds

Scientists say the findings should not obscure the devastation wrought by deforestation

The Independent UK

Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation

The Guardian - UK

EU postpones anti-deforestation rules as bloc signs trade deal with Indonesia

EU environmental chiefs have announced another one-year delay to plans to tighten up rules on importing products such as soy, beef and cocoa that have been linked to forest destruction.

Radio France Internationale

Commission claims IT glitch forced second delay to EU deforestation rules

EU executive blames IT failure for the second delay in implementing the Deforestation Regulation.

Euronews

EU Proposes New Delay To Anti-deforestation Rules

The EU said Tuesday it will seek a new one-year delay to sweeping anti-deforestation rules cheered by green groups but assailed by key trading partners from the United States to Indonesia.

International Business Times

Indonesia, EU Sign Long-awaited Trade Deal

Indonesia and the European Union finalised negotiations on a trade agreement Tuesday after nearly a decade of talks, a senior minister said.

International Business Times

How Europe’s deforestation law could change the global coffee trade

If your morning can’t begin without coffee, you’re in good company. The world drinks about 2 billion cups of coffee a day. However, a European Union law might soon affect your favorite coffee beans – and the farmers who grow them.

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The Independent UK

What Brazil’s soy moratorium fight means — and what happens next

Brazil’s soybean moratorium, credited with curbing Amazon deforestation since 2006, faces an uncertain future after the country’s competition regulator ordered its suspension while probing potential cartel-like behavior among traders

Al Jazeera

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests

Deforestation and glacial melting are the two leading causes compounding the climate crisis in the north of Pakistan.

Euronews

Deforestation linked to thousands of heat-related deaths each year, study warns

New research links tropical deforestation to 28,000 annual heat-related deaths.

The Guardian - UK

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds

Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find

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Can lab-grown oils offer a sustainable alternative to ingredients linked to deforestation?

Traditional palm and cocoa butter supply chains can take months. SMEY’s lab-grown oils cut that down to only 30 days.

The Guardian - UK

Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure

Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

The Independent UK

Bolivia will choose a new president but environmental activists see little hope of progress

Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule

The Guardian - UK

From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment

Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit

Radio France Internationale

Meet the NGOs striving to save the last forests of the Comoros

On the most mountainous and densely populated island in the Comoros, only the most remote forests have escaped decades of deforestation – ravages which several NGOs are now trying to repair.

The Independent UK

Takeaways from AP's reporting on armed groups recruiting children in Colombia

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining

The Independent UK

Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia's children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining

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