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Trading deforestation—why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient
| العنوان: | Trading deforestation—why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient |
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| المؤلفون: | Tiago N P dos Reis, Vinicius Guidotti de Faria, Gabriela Russo Lopes, Gerd Sparovek, Chris West, Raoni Rajão, Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, Marcelo M S Elvira, Raul S T do Valle |
| المصدر: | Environmental Research Letters, Vol 16, Iss 12, p 124025 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | IOP Publishing, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering LCC:Environmental sciences LCC:Science LCC:Physics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | commodity supply-chains, traded deforestation, legal CO2 emissions, Brazilian Forest Code, legislation requirements, export-driven agricultural expansion, Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, TD1-1066, Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Science, Physics, QC1-999 |
| الوصف: | Consumer countries and blocs, including the UK and the EU, are defining legal measures to tackle deforestation linked to commodity imports, potentially requiring imported goods to comply with the relevant producer countries’ land-use laws. Nonetheless, this measure is insufficient to address global deforestation. Using Brazil’s example of a key exporter of forest-risk commodities, here we show that it has ∼3.25 Mha of natural habitat (storing ∼152.8 million tons of potential CO _2 emissions) at a high risk of legal deforestation until 2025. Additionally, the country’s legal framework is going through modifications to legalize agricultural production in illegally deforested areas. What was illegal may become legal shortly. Hence, a legality criterion adopted by consumer countries is insufficient to protect forests and other ecosystems and may worsen deforestation and conversion risks by incentivizing the weakening of social-environmental protection by producer countries. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1748-9326 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-9326/ac358d |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/b2fb51a301b54bc0a01ae953c882f908 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.b2fb51a301b54bc0a01ae953c882f908 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 17489326 |
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| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-9326/ac358d |