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From now on, any product whose exploitation comes from deforestation can no longer be sold in the EU. A historic law, while four million square kilometers of forests have been destroyed by man since 2000.
Coffee, chocolate, or even spread, do we really know where these products come from? Cultivated in tropical countries, cocoa, soya or palm oil are products from plantations that are the cause of massive deforestation. To put an end to it, the European Union will ban the import of any product resulting from deforestation, a historic law. “We are going to guarantee to all Europeans who in the morning have a cup of coffee, a cup of chocolate, the fact that they will no longer contribute, even without knowing it, to the deforestation of the Amazon”explains Pascal Canfin, president of the environment commission of the parliament.
4 million km2 of forests destroyed since the beginning of the century
The landscape of this forest has radically changed in three years and worldwide, since 2000, more than four million square kilometers of forests have been destroyed by man, 16% of which because of the European market . Customs will thus be able, on arrival of the product in Europe, to check the history of its exploitation thanks to satellites. The controls will be random, but not systematic, a regret for certain associations fighting against deforestation.
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