Focusing on forests, without considering human rights in countries where tropical forests are destroyed for cultivation, risks undermining the future draft European legal framework to curb global deforestation due to EU imports, warned MEP Delara Burkhardt (S&D, Germany) on Thursday 16 September.
At issue is a working document from the Commission, which the MEP, the Parliament’s rapporteur for this dossier, considers to be incomplete. This is a draft impact assessment of the various...