Wednesday, September 18, 2024.
The European Union’s anti-deforestation regulation was handed in 2022 and adopted in June 2023, giving corporations 18 months to adapt. The regulation applies to a variety of merchandise, together with soy, cattle, espresso, cocoa, rubber, palm oil, timber and its derivatives corresponding to beef, paper, furnishings, chocolate and tires. Click here and access Annex 1 for the complete list of derived products.
Listed here are some excerpts from the letter despatched by Brazil to the European Fee on September 11, 2024.
“Honourable Commissioners and High Representative,
The expected start of implementation of the European Union’s anti-deforestation regulation (EUDR) at the end of 2024 is a matter of serious concern for several Brazilian export sectors and for the Brazilian Government. Brazil is one of the main suppliers to the EU of most of the products covered by the legislation… In order to avoid any impact on our trade relations, we request that the EU does not implement the EUDR from the end of 2024 and urgently reassess its approach to the issue…
The EUDR was designed without any knowledge of how the production and export processes of different products work and what the reality is in each country. The Brazilian production sectors affected by the EUDR were in Brussels and explained…
We recognize that environmental challenges transcend national borders… At the international level, sustainable development is an unequivocal priority for Brazil…
We believe, however, that unilateral coercive and punitive measures undermine confidence in nationally determined contributions when used as a justification for imposing trade barriers. Positive incentives are more effective in promoting environmental protection by adequately rewarding and remunerating those who provide environmental services. Financial assistance to developing countries frees up resources for investments in poverty reduction and implements environmental commitments related to financing, training and technology transfer, including the allocation of USD 100 billion per year for environmental preservation in developing countries, in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. …
We hope to be able to count on the European Union and its member countries as partners in facing these common challenges, based on dialogue, cooperation and mutual respect, avoiding the imposition of barriers to our bilateral trade.”
The letter was signed collectively by the Minister of Overseas Affairs and the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil.
The picture beneath was taken from the 2021 examine “Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests” por Keiichiro Kanemoto e Nguyen Tien Hoang do Analysis Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japão.
Utilizing 15 years of distant sensing information, they linked deforestation to worldwide commerce and consumption patterns and concluded: “We find that while many developed countries, including China and India, have achieved net forest gains domestically, they have also increased deforestation embedded in their imports, of which tropical forests are the most threatened biome.”
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