EU Nations Call for Simplifying, Delaying Deforestation Rules
The EU’s push to curtail deforestation has become one of the most controversial elements of its green ambitions.
Photographer: Ivan Valencia/BloombergSeveral European Union members are asking the bloc’s executive to further simplify and delay the application of rules aimed at curbing global deforestation to reduce red tape for more compliant nations.
The regulation in its current form does not sufficiently take into account countries with effective forest protection laws and a negligible risk of causing deforestation, according to a letter from 18 of the 27 member states, including Austria, Finland, Luxembourg, Hungary, and Sweden, addressed to the European Commission on Monday.