"Products such as soya, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather may be products of #deforestation, and the environmental audit committee has found that the #UK’s deforestation footprint per tonne of product consumed is higher than that of other countries.
Deforestation contributes 11% of global carbon #emissions."
"#Deforestation contributes 11% of global carbon emissions. A study found that UK imports of just 7 forest-risk commodities – soya, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather, paper, rubber and timber – accounted for a land footprint of 88% of the size of the UK each year. In the same study, research showed that 40% of the UK’s overseas land footprint was in countries at high risk of deforestation, weak governance arrangements and poor labour standards."
The parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has found that the UK’s deforestation footprint per tonne of product consumed is higher than that of other countries, including China, calling it “unsustainable”. (A deforestation footprint is similar to a carbon footprint. It signifies how much deforestation occurs per tonne of product consumed). #Deforestation#Environment#Forests#Biodiversity#UKPolitics
"Deforestation contributes 11% of global carbon emissions. A study by the RSPB and WWF found that UK imports of just seven forest-risk commodities – soya, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather, paper, rubber and timber – accounted for a land footprint of 88% of the size of the #UK each year. In the same study, research showed that 40% of the UK’s overseas land footprint was in countries at high risk of #deforestation, weak governance arrangements and poor labour standards" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/04/deforestation-effect-of-uk-consumption-unsustainable-say-mps?CMP=GTUK_email
Here is Mongabay’s annual recap of major tropical rainforest storylines.
While the data is still preliminary, it appears that deforestation declined across the tropics as a whole in 2023 due to developments in the Amazon, which has more than half the world’s remaining primary tropical forests.
Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Farallones de Cali National Park, located on Columbia's Pacific coast, will undergo long-term habitat restoration.