Climate Change
Colombia Passes First-Ever National Law Requiring Beef to Be Traced Back to Its Origins
The new law is aimed at tackling deforestation in protected areas and will take effect over two years.
Colombia this month enacted a landmark law designed to stop deforestation connected to cattle ranching, a move that environmental groups say could provide a model for the wider Amazon region, where livestock production is a leading driver of tree loss in the world’s largest and most climate-critical rainforest.
Colombia Passes First-Ever National Law Requiring Beef to Be Traced Back to Its Origins