Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high in February, semafor.com reported. Despite President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s pledges to end the environmentally destructive policies of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, more than 120 square miles — an area roughly six times larger than Manhattan — of the Brazilian Amazon were cut down last month.
Fashion brands have a new problem: committing to sourcing leather from verified "deforestation-free" supply chains by 2030, if not sooner. In this Sourcing Journal report, as Textile Exchange and the Leather Working Group (LWG) launched this challenge on Thursday 17/11 at the 2022 Conference in Colorado Springs. [Textile Exchange Wants Fashion to Take a Second Look at ... – SJ]
To fight global climate change and biodiversity loss, Parliament demands companies ensure that products sold in the EU do not come from deforested or degraded land. .[Press Release by @Europarl_EN]
The leather industry’s representative body in the European Union, COTANCE, has issued a statement to refute claims in a recent report from campaign group Global Witness linking the leather industry to deforestation in the Amazon, reports Leatherbiz.
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