"The bottom line is that, globally, deforestation has gotten worse, not better, since the beginning of the decade.
We’re only six years away from a critical global deadline to end deforestation, and forests continue to be chopped down, degraded, and set ablaze at alarming rates,”
Ivan Palmegiani, consultant at the research group Climate Focus

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Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction

Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

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