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By Maxwell Radwin MEXICO CITY — Top suppliers of Mexican avocados continue to work with growers who use land where forests have been cleared illegally, a new investigation shows. Top suppliers Calavo Growers, Fresh Del Monte Produce, Mission Produce and West Pak Avocado purchased avocados in 2023 and 2024 from illegally deforested land, according to a new investigation from Climate Rights International (CRI), an environmental and human rights group, and Mexican NGO Guardián Forestal. “The continued sourcing of avocados from deforested land by these companies is in defiance of the public statem...
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released on Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016, when officials began using the current method of measurement. In the past 12 months, the Amazon rainforest lost 4,300 square kilometres, an area roughly three times the size of London. That's a nearly 46 per cent decrease compared to the previous period. Brazil’s deforestation surveillance year runs from 1 August to 30 July. Still, much remains to be done to end the destruction and the month of July s...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is working on improving and synchronizing its forest and supply chain data to comply with increasingly strict sustainability standards and requirements in markets where it exports to, including the European Union. Earlier this year, the Indonesian government discovered discrepancies between the forest map and data that it uses, and those used by the EU as a reference for the implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The EUDR bans imports of seven forest-related commodities — soy, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, timb...
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By Charles Kolou KARÈ, Togo — Under the hot sun of an April afternoon in northern Togo, we made our way by motorcycle across the impoverished prefecture of Kozah. It wasn’t a long journey, about 30 minutes, but threading between trucks and cars on National Highway No. 1, it was a treacherous one. When we arrived, we were greeted with a smile by “Dadja” Pékémassim Ali, the 57-year-old chief of the canton of Kouméa, where the village of Karè is located. “We’re glad you’ve come to talk about this forest, whose restoration we’re delighted to see,” he told us. “Out of ignorance, and in a desire to ...
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A cup of coffee could soon become much more expensive due to new coffee production and deforestation rules, according to the chairman of Lavazza, Giuseppe Lavazza. The EU's recently implemented deforestation rules could mean that thousands of farmers' coffee bean exports to the EU could soon be rejected, due to them having been produced on land that was recently deforested. Although the EU's deforestation rules are seen to have good intentions, aimed at preserving forest quality and reducing the impact of deforestation on local communities, several industry leaders fear that they may have been...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Activists allege that two of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies have violated their zero-deforestation pledge by clearing natural forests and peatlands in Indonesia. An investigation by a coalition of Indonesian NGOs found deforestation within and around the concessions of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd. (APRIL) on the island of Sumatra. In the case of APRIL, the coalition alleged that two of its concessions had cleared natural forests and destroyed peatlands, with some of their activities suspected to hav...
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Deforestation in Colombia fell by 36% in a year, marking a new record low. It's especially good news the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, one-third of which is in Colombia. The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink meaning it sucks up carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming. The drop happened between 2022 and 2023 and comes off the back of years of campaigning by Indigenous activists who depend on the Amazon for their homes and livelihood. The decrease “means that 44,262 hectares of forest stopped being cut down,” Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told j...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — German chemical giant BASF and French miner Eramet have pulled out of a multibillion-dollar “green energy” project in Indonesia because of its impact on one of the last Indigenous tribes on Earth living in voluntary isolation. In an announcement on June 24, both companies said they had scrapped plans to invest up to $2.6 billion in the project on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia’s eastern province of North Maluku. The Sonic Bay project would have seen the construction of a refinery producing about 67,000 metric tons of nickel and 7,500 metric tons of cobalt ...
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A leading lawmaker in the European People’s Party has said he is “confident” the EU executive will move to postpone an incoming ban on marketing goods that are linked to deforestation, following a warning last month from the Biden administration in Washington, and the centre-right group has other Green Deal legislation in its sights. Peter Liese, an MEP since 1994 and freshly re-elected, told Euronews today that recent contact with officials “at all levels” in the European Commission had shown him “everybody is aware that we have a problem that cannot be solved without postponement”. As to the...
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Using dead leaves rather than healthy trees to make paper: that's the idea behind Ukrainian startup Releaf Paper. While still at school, founder Valentyn Frechka used his passion for biochemistry to find new ways to make cellulose, the key ingredient in paper. After a failed experiment with grass and straw, he discovered that it was possible to extract fibre from leaves. After creating a working prototype, he relocated to Paris due to the war in Ukraine, and founded Releaf Paper alongside his partner Alexandre Sobolenko. Coffee grounds might be the answer to agricultural contamination: Here’s ...
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