BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO, Dec 6 (Reuters) – The European Union approved on Tuesday a new law aimed at preventing companies from selling on the European market coffee, beef, soybeans and other products linked to deforestation in the world. The law will require companies to produce a due diligence statement showing that their supply chains do not …
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Nov 18 (Reuters) – Litigation over climate change has more than doubled in the past seven years globally, according to a June report from the London School of Economics, and is reaching beyond traditionally polluting industries such as production of fossil fuels. At the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, UN experts warned last week that …
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Countries at the world’s biggest wildlife summit have voted for the first time to regulate the trade that kills millions of sharks every year to feed the vast appetite for shark fin soup. In what marine conservationists hailed as a landmark decision, parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna …
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