UK imports have been linked to deforestation almost twice the size of Paris since the Environment Act was signed into law nearly two years ago, according to campaigners. Researchers from ...

In 2021, the U.K. appeared to be making serious strides against illegal deforestation when lawmakers ... recent report from Global Witness. “The UK government has described the Environment ...

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) called on the government to act with urgency as it released a 66-page report on Britain’s contribution to tackling global deforestation. The committee said the ...

At the time, Boris Johnson, then the UK prime minister, hailed it as a “landmark agreement to protect and restore the Earth’s forests.” But as deforestation intensifies, experts have called ...

This was despite Labour promising to plough ahead with the previous Conservative government’s proposals to eradicate illegal deforestation in notoriously problematic commodity supply chains. A ...

Deforestation is when trees are removed to make new materials out of them, or to make space for farming or houses in the area they once grew in The UK government's efforts to tackle deforestation ...

As seen in the graph below, during Lula's years in office, between 2004 and 2012, Amazon deforestation — which refers to cutting down or clearing trees, often replacing them with farms or cattle ...

As part of steps to tackle the climate crisis, the world has rightly acknowledged that it needs to tackle deforestation, with the UK Government committing £500 million to protect rainforests at COP26.

UK imports have been linked to deforestation almost twice the size of Paris since the Environment Act was signed into law nearly two years ago, according to campaigners. Researchers from environmental ...