Politics
Brazil Farm Sales to EU Imperiled by Deforestation, Report Finds
- Trade accord with Mercosur may increase EU’s emission ties
- Brazil needs public monitoring system to enforce deforestation
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Brazil’s soybean and beef trade with Europe is being threatened by the industry’s remaining ties to forest destruction, according to a report released Thursday.
European purchases of Brazilian soybeans may have been indirectly responsible for 58.3 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions between 2009 and 2017 from both legal and illegal deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado regions, according to the study published in Science magazine.