🌿 Environment 9h ago · Elisângela Mendonça

EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying

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EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying
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The leather industry spent most of the last year intensifying an already determined lobbying campaign in Brussels to win an exemption from the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR. The effort is paying off: on May 4, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, formally proposed excluding leather, hides, and skins from the regulation’s product scope, ahead of the law being enacted at the end of the year. The Commission’s proposal is being introduced through a delegated act, a

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