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2015-04-07 10:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A quarter of agricultural goods produced from illegally deforested land are destined for the EU, a new report has found, which estimates their value at more than EUR6bn (4.3bn) a year. The investigation by Fern, a Brussels-based forestry NGO, puts the EU ahead of the US and China per capita. More than half of the total value of EU imports of agricultural commodities estimated to be linked to illegal deforestation originates in Brazil, and a quarter originates in Indonesia. While the figures may...

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