Deforestation

EU Backs Supply Chain Audit Law As Italy Switches Sides

European Union governments backed a proposed law requiring large companies in the bloc to check if their supply chains use forced labour or cause environme...

Nestlé Reports Progress Against Net-Zero Goals, Reduces GHG Emissions In 2023

Food giant Nestlé has reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 13.5% in 2023, compared to its baseline year 2018, while continuing to expand it...

Louis Dreyfus Company Launches Its Own Juice Brand

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has launched its own juice brand, starting in France, seeking to use its orange production in Brazil to tap into demand for fre...

EU Countries Block Supply Chain Audit Law At Last Hour

European Union countries blocked at a late stage new rules requiring large companies to check if their supply chains use forced labour or cause e...

JDE Peet’s To Assess And Address Coffee-Related Deforestation

JDE Peet’s plans to roll out a new programme to assess and address coffee-related deforestation globally in collaboration with Enveritas.

Ivory Coast Cites Progress Tracing Cocoa As EU Deforestation Law Looms

Top cocoa producer Ivory Coast said it has handed out electronic cards that allow for the tracking and tracing of cocoa to nearly three-quarters of farmers...

EU Says It Is Still Pursuing Mercosur Trade Deal

The European Commission said that it was continuing to pursue a trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc of countries, a day after the office of French Presi...

France Says EU Commission To End Trade Deal Talks With Mercosur Countries

French President Emmanuel Macron has told the European Commission that it was impossible to conclude trade deal negotiations with South America's Mercosur...