In a letter to the European Commission on Thursday 1 November, Denmark's Environment Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen called on the Commission for "an ambitious EU action plan on deforestation and forest degradation" as quickly as possible.
In his letter, Ellemann-Jensen says he is writing on behalf of the alliance of member states set up by the Amsterdam Declaration for the elimination of deforestation in agricultural supply chains. This declaration was signed on 7 December 2015 by...