Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva confirmed that the 30 peoplee The world climate conference (COP30), which will end on Friday 21 November, is being held in the Brazilian city of Belém, at the gateway to the Amazon. A symbol. This took a hit on Wednesday, November 19, by a decision taken thousands of kilometers away, in Brussels: European Union (EU) member states agreed to request a new delay of one year, to 1uh January 2027, deforestation import regulations come into effect. This decision was a defeat for Paris, which opposed the new changes but ultimately supported them.
Adopted in 2023, the regulation aims to ban the import into the EU of a range of products (cocoa, coffee, soybeans, palm oil, wood, etc.) originating from deforested land after 2020. The mandate adopted on Wednesday by the EU Council goes further than the postponement proposal put forward by the Commission in September, by adding simplification measures. This must now be negotiated with Parliament in the coming weeks.
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