Ending subsidies for meat and soy sector is key to halting deforestation, shows new paper
18 Nov 2018
18 Nov, Sharm El Sheikh: Incentives to produce and export meat and animal feedstocks like soy in major producer countries like Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina are a leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss says a new briefing paper [1] launched by the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [2] at the Convention of Biodiversity’s (CBD) Conference of Parties in Egypt today [3]. Such subsidies must be phased out by 2020 to conserve biodiversity, in line with the Aichi Target 3 [4], …
