Dozens of global investors demand that companies adopt "zero deforestation" policies in Latin America to combat effects of climate change RIO DE JANEIRO, March 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens ...
OFFOUMPO, Ivory Coast, April 8 (Reuters) - The European Union is not planning to delay a new law to crack down on the import of commodities linked to deforestation, its environment commissioner said, ...
Major global consumers like the U.K., the U.S. and the EU are debating how best to reduce the amount of tropical deforestation resulting from the production of the commodities they import. Some ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A new European Union law preventing the import of commodities linked to deforestation risks sidelining small farmers who are unable to meet the burdensome cost of ...
Maize, rice and cassava drive more deforestation than major export-oriented crops like cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This has been shown by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in ...
A devastating mudslide ripped through Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown in August 2017, burying homes and killing at least 1,100 people. Triggered by weeks of unusually heavy rain, it was one of the ...