Today, we cover a move by French food retailers against Amazon deforestation. New evidence on the hack of Brazil’s election systems. And what you need to know about the municipal runoff races.
French pledge against deforestation a threat to Brazil’s agro
The top 8 supermarket chains in France jointly announced measures to stop using products containing soy grown on deforested land. In celebration of the two-year anniversary of the National Strategy Against Imported Deforestation (SNDI), big retailers committed to including non-deforestation clauses in contracts with suppliers.
- As pressure from consumers increases, brands start to adopt environmentally responsible procedures in their supply chains. A YouGov poll from April 2019 showed that 87 percent of European Union citizens agree governments must enact stricter laws to ensure that products sold in the region do not contribute to global deforestation.
Why it matters. France imported over 3 million tons of soy in 2017, two-thirds of which came from Brazil. And, according to a July 2020 research paper published in Science magazine, roughly 20 percent of soy exports and at least 17 percent of beef exports from the Amazon and Cerrado biomes to the EU may be the products of illegal deforestation.
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