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Look up what drives deforestation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the results are many: trade with countries like China and the EU, mining to satisfy growing demand for gold and other metals, speculation and land grabbing tied to U.S. universities and pension funds. While all of these are factors, one of the biggest […]

Tropical deforestation is predominantly driven by agriculture, but vast tracts of cleared forest do not become productive land. That’s according to a global review of tropical deforestation published in Science. These findings, the authors argue, underline that corporate zero-deforestation commitments and policies cannot halt tropical deforestation on their own. Researchers analyzed deforestation between 2011 and […]

The stories shaping the Global, Regional and Industry agendas

The stories shaping the Global, Regional and Industry agendas

​In its new proposal aimed at reducing tropical deforestation, the European Commission has wrongly left out certain goods which make a significant