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    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      EU deforestation rules risk ‘catastrophic’ impact on global trade, says ITC chief

      Head of International Trade Centre warns move favours big companies that can trace where their produce was grown

      Land cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Amazon nations fail to agree deforestation target

      Brazilian president had aimed to persuade neighbours to agree to halt illegal destruction of forests by 2030

      Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Climate change
      Brazil to launch ‘most ambitious’ green transition package

      Investors welcome bold environmentalist programme from leftwing president

      Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with indigenous women on a stage
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      InterviewColombia
      Petro courts foreign investors to fulfil Colombia’s ‘potential’ beyond oil

      President’s agenda stutters, with markets betting that leftist leader lacks support to implement radical reforms

      Gustavo Petro
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Tropical forest loss increased by 10% in 2022

      Tree cover the size of Switzerland destroyed globally last year with Brazil top of the list for largest decline

      Deforested land in the rural city of Humaita, Amazonas
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      LexEuropean companies
      EU deforestation law: root and branch reform is long overdue Premium content

      Unlike the carbon emissions data companies provide, this law clearly quantifies the financial impact of environmental action

      Staff at chocolate and cocoa product maker Barry Callebaut prepare chocolates
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Indonesia and Malaysia freeze trade talks with EU over palm oil

      Bloc’s new rules on products that come from land cleared of forests deemed ‘punitive and unfair’

      An Indonesian farmer poses with palm oil fruit at his plantation
    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      InterviewBrazil
      Brazil urges international action against illegal gold trade

      Indigenous affairs minister calls for penalties against buyers of illicit metal from the Amazon region

      Sonia Guajajara sings at an event
    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      Climate change
      Brazil looks to start-ups in battle to reforest the Amazon

      Companies are replanting millions of hectares and generating revenue through carbon credit sales

      Scientist Renato Crouzeilles examines a forested area in the Amazonian state of Pará in Brazil
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

      Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

      A worker arranges palm oil fruit on a truck in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      South America
      Plan to plough $1bn into sustainable farming in South America misses initial target

      Fund for beef and soy farmers who protect rainforest struggles to make loans as planned

      Cattle at an Argentine auction
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      UK trade
      UK poised to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil

      Britain’s move to cut duties as it seeks entry to CPTPP trade deal sparks concern among green groups

      Workers use palm fruit spears to remove bad bunches from a pile at the Bukit Senorang Palm Oil Mill in Malaysia
    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      ExplainerClimate Capital
      EU deforestation law triggers ire of its trading partners

      Indonesia and Malaysia lead criticism of legislation that bans imports of products linked to clearing of forests

      An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Person in the News
      Marina Silva, an unflinching campaigner to save Brazil’s rainforest

      In her new spell as president Lula’s environment minister she will face challenges even greater than in her first term

      Marina Silva holding a microphone in a forest setting
    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Brazilian politics
      Green champion Marina Silva returns to Brazil’s environment ministry

      New leftwing government has pledged to end deforestation of Amazon by end of decade

      Marina Silva and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      UN pushes end to $1.8tn in subsidies linked with harm to nature

      Focus turns to economic risks of loss of plant and animal life that experts estimate could affect up to half of global GDP

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      COP27
      Lula promises COP27 that ‘Brazil is back’ in climate change fight

      President-elect greeted at UN summit with chants of his name from supporters

      President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the COP27 climate summit
    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances

      Technology makes farming in developed areas more sustainable but rainforest destruction has been soaring

      An aerial view of burning forest in the Amazon
    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Appetite for charcoal threatens ‘lungs of Africa’

      Some businesses are starting to develop alternatives to the cooking fuel

      Three people looking at charcoal for sale at a market in Ambovombe, Madagascar
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Brazil
      Lula faces struggle to reverse Brazil’s environmental destruction

      Former minister says climate change will be a top priority after increase in deforestation under Bolsonaro

      Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Marina Silva
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Moral Money
      A year on, COP26 pledges ring hollow Premium content

      Plus, Big Tech isn’t so clean after all

      Oil tanks at a Saudi Aramco oil facility
    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
      Tree-planting and land pledges would need area bigger than US, report estimates

      Countries have promised 1.2bn hectares in total of new forests and restored land to help curb climate change

      Students take part in planting mangrove trees at a beach in Pekan Bada, Indonesia
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Amazon rainforest
      Brazil presidential vote sparks rush to clear more Amazon rainforest

      Possible change of government prompts further land grab by criminal logging gangs, say campaigners

      A deforested and burnt area along a highway in Humaitá, Brazil in September 2022
    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      News in-depthColombia
      Colombia’s battle against Amazon deforestation: ‘The jungle is disappearing’

      Leftwing government launches crackdown on illegal clearances to tackle destruction of rainforest

      A farmer cuts down trees with a chainsaw to plant coca at a plantation in Guaviare, Colombia
    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      The ancient subarctic forests at risk from climate change and war

      The boreal ecosystem that covers swaths of Russia and North America is nearing a dangerous tipping point

      Boreal forest in Dryden, Canada.
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