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    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Appetite for charcoal threatens ‘lungs of Africa’

      Some businesses are starting to develop alternatives to the cooking fuel

      Three people looking at charcoal for sale at a market in Ambovombe, Madagascar
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Brazil
      Lula faces struggle to reverse Brazil’s environmental destruction

      Former minister says climate change will be a top priority after increase in deforestation under Bolsonaro

      Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Marina Silva
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Moral Money
      A year on, COP26 pledges ring hollow Premium content

      Plus, Big Tech isn’t so clean after all

      Oil tanks at a Saudi Aramco oil facility
    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
      Tree-planting and land pledges would need area bigger than US, report estimates

      Countries have promised 1.2bn hectares in total of new forests and restored land to help curb climate change

      Students take part in planting mangrove trees at a beach in Pekan Bada, Indonesia
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Amazon rainforest
      Brazil presidential vote sparks rush to clear more Amazon rainforest

      Possible change of government prompts further land grab by criminal logging gangs, say campaigners

      A deforested and burnt area along a highway in Humaitá, Brazil in September 2022
    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      News in-depthColombia
      Colombia’s battle against Amazon deforestation: ‘The jungle is disappearing’

      Leftwing government launches crackdown on illegal clearances to tackle destruction of rainforest

      A farmer cuts down trees with a chainsaw to plant coca at a plantation in Guaviare, Colombia
    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      The ancient subarctic forests at risk from climate change and war

      The boreal ecosystem that covers swaths of Russia and North America is nearing a dangerous tipping point

      Boreal forest in Dryden, Canada.
    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      Brazil’s other deforestation: has the savannah farming boom gone too far?

      Decades of intensive agriculture threaten the Cerrado region, which acts as an important carbon dioxide ‘sink’ and helps fend off global warming

    • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
      LexWildfires
      Carbon counter: the cost of wildfires Premium content

      If nature has an economic value, then wildfires linked to climate change must have an economic cost.

      Smoke rises from the forest due to a wildfire in Orosh, Mirdite, Albania
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Henry Paulson
      Planting trees is not a panacea — we need to save existing forests

      Stopping deforestation is complicated but more important than making pledges that have mixed results

      A chemically deforested area of the Amazon jungle caused by illegal mining activities in the river basin of the Madre de Dios region in south-east Peru
    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Moral Money
      How can investors help save the Amazon? Premium content

      Plus, the UK seeks to hold the finance sector accountable for its role in environmental crimes

      An aspiring cattle farmer takes a break from illegally burning an area of rainforest in Brazil’s Amazonas state. The region’s deforestation rate has surged under President Jair Bolsonaro
    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Climate change
      Nestlé and Unilever CEOs: we will make our supply chains deforestation-free

      Net zero will be a pipe dream without a collective effort to conserve and restore the world’s forests

      An aerial view of deforestation in Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin
    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      A new legal battleground in US abortion wars

      UK advised to ban use of live facial recognition in public spaces

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Global InsightBryan Harris
      Brazil is letting the Amazon rainforest become lawless

      Murders of British journalist and Brazilian researcher show crime is festering and hindering the fight against deforestation

      Xukuru indigenous people hold a poster showing Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, during Pereira’s funeral in Recife, Brazil, on Friday
    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      Ukraine war hits global timber trade and adds to risks for forests

      Fears rise that illegal logging will meet demand as protections are loosened and sanctions curb Russian exports

      Logs stacked at the Lesosibirsk woodworking plant in Russia
    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      News in-depthEnvironment3 min
      Can we save the world’s forests? | FT Rethink

      Moves to combat deforestation are being made, but how effective are they?

    • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
      Amazon rainforest loss fuelled by destruction around roads

      Brazil accounted for more than 40% of global tropical forest loss in 2021

      Graphic of tree loss hotspots over an aerial view of deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil July 28 2021.
    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      JBS SA
      Meatpacker JBS comes under fire over 50% emissions rise

      Environmental study finds Brazilian company’s carbon footprint is larger than all of Italy

      A worker spreads salt in a trough at a cattle ranch in Sao Paulo state, Brazil
    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      Climate change
      Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

      Satellite research finds that an irreversible ‘tipping point’ could be approaching

    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Agricultural commodities
      Nestlé to pay cocoa farmers to stop using child labour

      Maker of Kit Kat to tackle root cause through direct payments to smallholders

    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      Storebrand ASA
      Storebrand urges agricultural traders to act on Brazil deforestation risk

      Nordic asset manager criticises Bunge and Archer Daniels Midland as investors apply pressure on supply chains

      A soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil
    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      Supermarkets drop Brazilian beef products linked to deforestation

      Sainsbury’s, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize clean up supply chains to cut CO2 emissions

    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      Climate change
      Bunge and Cargill linked to soya supply chains with deforestation risk

      Agriculture traders named as France tries to cut greenhouse gas threat to environment

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      News in-depthESG investing
      Asset managers fail to act on pledges to divest from Brazil over deforestation

      Lack of action by institutional investors comes as rate of rainforest clearing hits 15-year high

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Agritech
      Morrisons ditches soya for insects in chicken feed to hatch carbon neutral eggs

      Automated farms in shipping containers will produce the insects fed on supermarket waste

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