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EU adopts new law for deforestation-free products

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A lorry ferrying logs in Nyeri, November 2023. Environmentalists in Mt Kenya and Aberdare Forest have raised alarm over the deforestation of water towers. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The European Union has adopted a new regulation to curb markets of products produced on lands that were formerly forests.

The new EU Deforestation Regulation has listed seven commodities that should be 'deforestation-free' for them to be sold to the EU markets.

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