The new EU Deforestation Regulation: towards inclusive and sustainable forest and agricultural commodity chains

It is clear that voluntary demand-side measures alone are not enough to address deforestation stemming from unsustainable consumption patterns and lifestyles mostly in higher income countries (tele)coupled with land-use change in middle- and lower-income countries. Further regulatory measures are needed to address globally pressing deforestation due to land-use change to cultivate given raw materials and sourcing products from the Global South including for consumption in the European market (Pendrill, Gardner et al., 2022; Pendrill, Persson et al., 2019). Such interconnected challenges are not solved by voluntary sustainability standards alone and call for binding due diligence rules towards deforestation-free commodity chains. With its legislative lever, the European Union (EU) has gone ahead and adopted the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The EUDR is a critical piece of legislation for governing deforestation-free supply chains located in the EU market. It is targeted at deforestation-free forest and agricultural commodity chains (cattle, wood, cocoa, soy, palm oil, coffee, rubber).

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