Deforestation

IATP comments to EU Commission on removal of leather from EUDR

In May, the European Commission proposed that a list of products including leather, hides, and skins be removed from the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

The Land Gap: Climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal, ignoring our forests

This week, the University of Melbourne launched the second edition of The Land Gap Report, which looks closely at countries’ climate commitments and their implications for how land is to be used — and how forests need to be protected — to reach those targets.

Study finds COP30 climate pledges lean heavily on land-based carbon removal over reducing emissions by protecting forests

Belém, Brazil (12 November 2025) — An analysis of national climate plans released today at the COP30 climate summit warns that countries are failing to carry out the core work required to reduce emissions by halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation, and are instead pushing carbon removal schemes, such as large-scale tree planting, to levels that are far b

Brazilian perspectives on the EUDR, the Cerrado, and respect for family farmers, Indigenous people, and community rights

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples and local communities living in and adjacent to forests and the importance of including the Cerrado biome in the regulation, in accordance with demands from Brazilian civil society organizations.

Aligning deforestation-free supply chain initiatives

This article outlines some key elements of the EUDR and compares it with deforestation prevention proposals emerging in other importing countries.

EU-Mercosur Agreement: Old pledges, new potential impacts for food systems and a just transition

This article by Maureen Santos will focus briefly on some of the implications on the final EUMA text negotiated between 2023 and 2024 called the Brasília Package, while remaining strongly critical about the overall agreement.

The Complicated Challenge of Protecting Peru's Forests

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand and directed by enormous agribusiness and finance interests.

The imperative for coherence: Deforestation and trade policies in Peru, the U.S. and EU

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of agricultural commodities have come into focus. While they represent a fresh approach to a vexing intersection of problems, they can work at cross purposes with other policies.

Trade flows and trade policies driving deforestation

It seems every day the climate catastrophe inches closer to us. Last week, dense smoke from wildfires in Canada led to severe air quality alerts across the East coast of the United States, with a stinking yellow haze coating the skies.

Can we stop trading in deforestation?

The expansion of agriculture commodity production, often for export, is the biggest driver of deforestation in the world, whether it is more land for cattle, soy for animal feed or palm oil plantations.