Under new Government rules, businesses will be banned from using or selling certain goods that came from land linked to illegal deforestation.
Rules that would help to remove deforestation from supermarket shelves must go ahead “without delay”, a group of cross-party MPs and peers have said.
Environment Secretary Steve Barclay announced that ministers would introduce the necessary legislation needed to enact these measures during a Cop28 speech in December. The letter said: “Despite much anticipation and some progress, more than two years later the secondary legislation needed to progress these measures has not been laid.”
They also called for Defra to accept and implement the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on tackling the UK’s contribution to global deforestation, including extending the scope of the due diligence regime to cover all deforestation and financial services. Other signatories include shadow nature ministers Olivia Blake MP and Alex Sobel MP as well as Liberal Democrat climate spokesperson Wera Hobhouse MP.
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