Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest: Deforestation, biodiversity and cooperation with the EU and international forums
Analyse approfondie
15-05-2020
For the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, an aggravated forest fire and deforestation regime in Amazonia put at risk the world’s richest biodiversity assets and a major climate regulator. For the EU27, it highlights the need to associate the question of embodied deforestation consumption by placing deforestation-free supply chains at the centre of negotiations surrounding the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement, given the volume of trade between these economic blocs in meat, leather, soy, coffee, rubber, wood pulp, biofuel and timber.
Analyse approfondie
Auteur externe
Cristina MÜLLER
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Domaine politique
Mot-clé
- accord d'association (UE)
- AGRICULTURE, SYLVICULTURE ET PÊCHE
- Amérique
- biodiversité
- Brésil
- commerce international
- construction européenne
- déboisement
- détérioration de l'environnement
- ENVIRONNEMENT
- forêt
- forêt tropicale
- GÉOGRAPHIE
- géographie politique
- géographie économique
- Mercosur
- milieu naturel
- organisations extra-européennes
- ORGANISATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- politique commerciale
- politique commerciale commune
- politique de l'environnement
- protection de l'environnement
- protection de la forêt
- relation commerciale
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- ÉCHANGES ÉCONOMIQUES ET COMMERCIAUX