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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.

The Conversation

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

The Independent UK

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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.

Al Jazeera

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

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

Euronews

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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 Guardian - 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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Radio France Internationale

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

The Independent UK

Amazon rainforest is approaching 'tipping points' that could transform it into a drier savanna

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could transpire.

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The Guardian - AU

Queensland land-clearing figures show state remains ‘deforestation capital of Australia’, conservationists say

Overall clearing was up 3%, with almost half in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas while 21% was remnant woodland, government data shows

The Independent UK

Chimp refuge shuts doors to tourists in deforestation protest

Workers said deforestation in the area was fuelled by ‘land grabbing’ for development

The Independent UK

Amazon deforestation surges in Colombia, reversing historic gains

Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a historic low in 2023

Euronews

Proposed changes to EU deforestation law will boost illegal Russia timber trade, NGO warns

A majority of EU countries are pushing for changes to the EU deforestation law that could likely boost illegal timber imports from sanctioned Russia and Belarus, according to NGO Earthsight, which claims states pushing for the changes are benefiting from the illegal timber trade.

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Evening Standard

MPs urge ministers to introduce long-awaited rules on supply chain deforestation

Environment Secretary Steve Reed has been urged to set a date for proposed forest-risk commodity rules to come into force.

The Guardian - UK

Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law

President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities

Evening Standard

Supermarkets ‘in limbo’ over Government action on deforestation in supply chains

Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl are among those calling on ministers to enact promised due diligence laws that effectively ban forest-risk commodities.

Euronews

Eighteen EU countries call for 'simplification' of EU Deforestation Law

Eighteen member states called for the 'simplification' and postponement of the implementation of the EU deforestation law, amid criticism from civil society over the move.

The Guardian - UK

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future

Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

AAP

Long way to go to stop lending for deforestation

A number of bank-financed landholders might be involved in illegal landclearing, raising questions about lender exposure to risky nature destruction.

The Guardian - UK

One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village

Since 1999, Armando López Pocol and his team of volunteers have bucked the trend for deforestation, regenerating the landscape of the highlands with their Chico Mendes project

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