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  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    Amazon rainforest loss fuelled by destruction around roads

    Brazil accounted for more than 40% of global tropical forest loss in 2021

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    JBS SA
    Meatpacker JBS comes under fire over 50% emissions rise

    Environmental study finds Brazilian company’s carbon footprint is larger than all of Italy

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Climate change
    Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

    Satellite research finds that an irreversible ‘tipping point’ could be approaching

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Agricultural commodities
    Nestlé to pay cocoa farmers to stop using child labour

    Maker of Kit Kat to tackle root cause through direct payments to smallholders

  • Monday, 24 January, 2022
    Storebrand ASA
    Storebrand urges agricultural traders to act on Brazil deforestation risk

    Nordic asset manager criticises Bunge and Archer Daniels Midland as investors apply pressure on supply chains

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Supermarkets drop Brazilian beef products linked to deforestation

    Sainsbury’s, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize clean up supply chains to cut CO2 emissions

  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    Climate change
    Bunge and Cargill linked to soya supply chains with deforestation risk

    Agriculture traders named as France tries to cut greenhouse gas threat to environment

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    News in-depthESG investing
    Asset managers fail to act on pledges to divest from Brazil over deforestation

    Lack of action by institutional investors comes as rate of rainforest clearing hits 15-year high

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    Agritech
    Morrisons ditches soya for insects in chicken feed to hatch carbon neutral eggs

    Automated farms in shipping containers will produce the insects fed on supermarket waste

  • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
    Brazil
    Brazil hits out at EU ‘protectionism’ behind planned anti-deforestation law

    Brussels proposal to halt imports of products from deforested areas angers South American exporter

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Brussels seeks to curb deforestation with food import ban

    Draft law would bar six commodities produced in at-risk areas from sale in single market

  • Monday, 8 November, 2021
    Agricultural production
    Food systems emissions rose 17% over past three decades, UN says

    Agricultural food sectors accounted for a third of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019

  • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
    The Big Read
    Policing the Amazon: on the front lines of deforestation

    Despite pledges at the COP26 summit, enforcement officials working in the rainforest say they lack resources and political support

  • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
    LexCarbon footprint
    Carbon counter: palm harm serves up orang-utans on toast

    Palm oil contributes significantly to CO2 emissions and the dwindling population of the great apes

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    InterviewColombia
    Colombia’s president says cocaine users culpable in Amazon destruction

    Iván Duque targets recreational drug users who preach environmentalism but fuel deforestation

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    COP26
    COP26 forests pact frays as Indonesia calls it ‘unfair’ days after signing up

    Environment and forestry minister says asking the developing country to halt deforestation by 2030 is unjust

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    Banx 
    COP26 pledge to reverse deforestation

    Stop illegal logging

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    COP26
    Global leaders sign pledge to halt deforestation

    More than 100 countries promise to ban practice by 2030 but enforcement remains unclear

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    News in-depthClimate change
    COP26 deforestation deal criticised over lack of detail on enforcement

    More than 100 world leaders sign pledge yet previous commitments have not been met

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    Banx 
    World on brink as COP 26 starts

    ‘It’s one minute to midnight’

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Amazon populations under threat from floods, fires and drought

    Emerging dangers in the region represent a warning for the whole planet

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Global finance industry sinks $119bn into companies linked to deforestation

    Investigation shows extensive financing activity has continued since Paris accord on global warming

  • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
    Food retailers and green groups criticise ‘watered down’ UK environment bill

    House of Lords fails to amend legislation to limit products linked to deforestation in food supply chains

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    Climate change
    UN calls for reform of $540bn farming subsidies to help climate

    Most polluting sectors such as dairy receive most state support, while health and environment costs total $12tn a year

  • Friday, 20 August, 2021
    News in-depthClimate change
    Brazil’s new environment minister faces huge Amazon challenge

    Activists hope for change of direction on climate under Joaquim Pereira Leite

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