EU Commission Proposes Delay for Anti-Deforestation Law

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The palm oil plantation area beside the Tabin wildlife reserve forest in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, September 9, 2019. © 2019 Aditya Sutanta/Abaca/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Photo Yesterday the European Commission proposed a substantial delay in the implementation of its landmark anti-deforestation law. This is bad news for the climate-critical forests around the world as well as the human rights of Indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities. The European Union’s Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR) is a piece of legislation that required considerable…

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