Amazon deforestation may rise 30% as major traders exit historic soy pact
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Major soy traders operating in Brazil announced in early January that they would abandon one of the world’s most successful zero-deforestation agreements, known as the soy moratorium. As a result, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon may increase by up to 30% by 2045, according to the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), pushing the rainforest toward […]