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Serious governance failures by the Peruvian state in the #AmazonRainforest has allowed industrial-scale agrobusiness to deforestate and operate with impunity for years.

Now since Europe plans to ban imports of commodities from ilegal #Deforestation, the Peruvian congress instead of ramping up efforts to fight deforestation, has just approved a law that in practice legalizes deforestation in the forest to keep exporting commodities.

Full IEA's #CarvingUpTheAmazon report: https://us.eia.org/report/carving-up-the-amazon/

Carving Up the Amazon

Industrial-scale agribusiness, particularly palm oil and cocoa, is driving deforestation in the most densely-forested regions of the Peruvian Amazon.
EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
#deforestation #amazonrainforest #carvinguptheamazon
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