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Environment Bill

Proceeding contribution from Kerry McCarthy (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 20 October 2021. It occurred during Debate on bills on Environment Bill.

Does the Minister not accept that legal deforestation is becoming as much of a problem as illegal deforestation? If it is deforestation per se of the Amazon, that is a bad thing. Bolsonaro is relaxing the rules in his country, and it is happening in other countries in the region as well, and as a result we are increasingly seeing products entering our supermarket supply chains that are linked to deforestation—there was a story last week about cheese being sold in UK supermarkets. That is bad regardless of whether the Government of the country authorised it or not.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
701 c846 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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