UK prepares law to remove deforestation-related products from supermarkets
The proposed legislation would cover beef, soy, leather, palm oil and cocoa.
Companies with a global annual turnover of £50m (US$63m) and using more than 500 tonnes of regulated products a year would be banned from using them if they were sourced from illegally deforested land.
"Globally, we are losing forests equivalent to the size of about 30 football pitches every minute", Environment Secretary Steve Barclay said in a statement.
"We are cleaning up supply chains to ensure that large UK companies are not responsible for illegal deforestation", the minister said.
In the UK, the so-called Environment Bill has been in the works since 2020 and the key difference with the legislation passed by the EU this year is that it will ban trade in products grown on all recently deforested land anywhere in the world.
The proposed UK law will focus solely on illegal destruction of forest land.
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