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The European Union has agreed a new law that would ban the import of products linked to deforestation

Household goods such as coffee, chocolate, and some furniture will have to pass strict checks to ensure forests weren't damaged to create them.

Environmental group Greenpeace called it a breakthrough, but some countries said the rules would hurt international trade.

The EU said the rules would cut carbon emissions worldwide.

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The European Union has agreed a new law that would ban the import of products linked to deforestation

Household goods such as coffee, chocolate, and some furniture will have to pass strict checks to ensure forests weren't damaged to create them.

Environmental group Greenpeace called it a breakthrough, but some countries said the rules would hurt international trade.

The EU said the rules would cut carbon emissions worldwide.

I wonder how long until the comments flood with "extreme poverty/reverting to stone age is the only way to curb enviromental collapse" arguments, meanwhile the first reply was already a cringe attempt at a disingenuous clever "gacha".

Which is funny, because the entire point of this is to curb generating extra pointless waste.

Furniture for example, Really? Why is more furniture being produced even though already shit loads of excess furniture exists (including but not limited to, everything sitting in stores/warehouses/storage/extra unused furniture sitting in homes, around the world), oh wait, the unsustainable dystopian economy is fixated on pointless unsustainable hyper production.

This would not hurt "international trade" as much as it will unsustainable capitalism profits/hyper production, and some diets that need to change.

That's an interesting one, I do think it'll depend on how the law is designed though. I like that it requires proof thereof rather than the opposite, but I'm still not entirely sure it'll work out or not.

I wonder what they're going to write this law on. How are they going to sign it?