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The Commission welcomes the provisional political agreement just reached between the European Parliament and the Council on an EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains. Once adopted and applied, the new law will ensure that a set of key goods placed on the EU market will no longer contribute to deforestation and forest degradation in the EU and elsewhere in the world. Since the EU is a major economy and consumer of these commodities, this step will help stop a significant share of global deforestation and forest degradation, in turn reducing greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. This major agreement comes just before the start of the milestone Conference on Biodiversity (COP15) which is set to define protection goals for nature for decades to come.
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| Originally Published | 06 Dec 2022 |
| Related organisation(s) | EC - European Commission |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Biodiversity | Biodiversity and healthBiodiversity and tradeBiodiversity and its global governance |
| Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | biodiversityecosystem servicesdeforestationenvironmental protectionsustainable forest managementProductionconsumptionEU lawEU policysupply chainMarketreduction of gas emissionsagricultural productlow input farminglivelihoodecosystemClimate change mitigationland use |
| Geographic coverage | EUEuropean Union |
