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A handful of commodities (🐮🌴🍫☕️) cause a third of all #deforestation, harming millions of forest-dependent people, the climate & biodiversity A few commodity traders (Cargill, Wilmar, Olam, etc) handle this trade Here’s what you need to know about their sourcing practices 🧵

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SUPER excited to announce the launch of the @NYUEnvrStudies PhD program! We are searching for a first cohort of *fully funded* students to start in Fall 2025 who will tackle pressing environmental problems using interdisciplinary approaches. Details here! as.nyu.edu/departments/en…

Real banger of a new paper on global temp/gdp relationships by Adrian Bilal and Diego Kanzig. SCC of >$1000 under pretty conservative interpretation of their results! Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/1zyOAE8…

Read the Mongabay blog for more details: news.mongabay.com/2024/04/tracea… And the original article for the full story: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Only by encouraging companies to measure success at multiple scales can initiatives for sustainable commodity sourcing create the right mix of incentives for addressing deforestation.

In the fight against deforestation, everyone is talking about TRACEABILITY. In a new article in Conservation Letters, we warn traceability should not be seen as a silver bullet - outline what governments and companies need to do next. news.mongabay.com/2024/04/tracea…

China just licensed beef imports from 24 new Brazilian slaughterhouses. In a recent @wef article we highlight the opportunities for sustainable trade that stem from growing Brazil-China trade links. Article: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02… New slaughterhouses: canalrural.com.br/pecuaria/boi/m…

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Read the full article here: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02… Co-authored with Yuan Zhuang and Andre Vasconcelos 🙏

4. And there are lessons from Chinese companies’ experience with other sectors. The Chinese trader COFCO International has, for example, recently incorporated a deforestation- and conversion-free sourcing conditions for soy imports from Brazil.

China is a huge and growing market for Brazilian beef exports. Here are four opportunities this brings for sustainable trade. New article in @wef: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02… 🧵