Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mindy Lubber is CEO and president of Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization. Between the attention on forests at COP30, ...

Berlin — As severe flooding continues to displace families and threaten lives across Sumatra, Indonesia, Transparency International is warning that corruption has worsened the impact of the crisis on ...

The European Union (EU) passed a deforestation rule (EUDR) in June 2023 requiring imports of cattle, wood, cocoa, soy, palm oil, coffee and rubber, and any products produced with them, to prove they ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the ...

A clutch of the world’s largest chocolate makers have been linked in an NGO report to deforestation in Liberia. Global Witness has mapped supply chains it claims has left Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez ...

Even Swedish consumption contributes to the loss of rainforest—and nowadays coffee has overtaken beef as the product affecting deforestation the most. This is shown in a new report from the WWF in ...

Global demand for a handful of agricultural commodities—from your morning coffee to a piece of chocolate—is the single largest driver of deforestation and habitat loss across the planet. As ...

Banks have arranged more than $425 billion of financing for the companies most responsible for deforestation over the past decade. That includes $72 billion provided to the beef, palm oil, soy, rubber ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 11.08% in the 12 months through July compared with the same period a year earlier, hitting an 11-year low, government data ...

Coffee plants are seen at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation experimental farm in Brazil in 2022. Coffee production in Brazil is leading to deforestation, a nonprofit group says. Evaristo ...

A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee farms, rainfall decreases and crops are more likely to fail. By Ephrat Livni ...

The EU is now proposing not to delay the implementation of its deforestation programme for “large and medium” companies beyond the end of this year. Last month, the European Commission proposed ...