Deeply worried by the devastating impact on the environment by the massive and rapid development of cultivation of palm oil across the globe, MEPs on the Parliament’s environment committee sounded the alarm on Thursday 9 March, calling on the EU to provide itself with a range of measures to halt this scourge of tropical forests, ecosystems, biodiversity and local inhabitants whose livelihoods are closely linked to these ecosystems and the climate.
The report by Katerina Konecna (GUE/NGL,...