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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr

Business Green

This needs to be backed in the UK with bold policies to cut our global footprint and future trade deals that clearly reject deforestation and other poor agricultural practices.". While richer nations will experience the largest gross impacts, developing nations are expected to shoulder a disproportionately large burden, the report adds.

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A deforestation roadmap that leaves a lot to be desired

Business Green

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. While the palm oil commitment requires zero deforestation in all sourcing regions, soy and cattle mainly focus on South America's Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco regions. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. For cattle, action ends with forests.

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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

Business Green

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".