{"id":188876,"date":"2025-04-16T23:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/palm-oil-lobbyists-water-down-europes-anti-deforestation-law-the-understory\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:22:31","slug":"palm-oil-lobbyists-water-down-europes-anti-deforestation-law-the-understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=188876","title":{"rendered":"Palm oil lobbyists water down Europe&#8217;s anti-deforestation law &#8211; The Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-22004\">\n<h2>Lobbyists want to give a pass to small, rogue operators<\/h2>\n<div class=\"author-details\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/headshot-48x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-profile_48 size-profile_48\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\tBy <span class=\"author\">Timothy Workman<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The European Union made waves when it passed the landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/topics\/forests\/deforestation\/regulation-deforestation-free-products_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EUDR<\/a> \u201czero deforestation\u201d law in 2023. Unfortunately, multinationals are already trying to undo it.<\/p>\n<p>The new law is an attempt to keep deforestation-linked products out of Europe, but palm oil lobbyists are fighting back, saying its monitoring and tracing requirements could financially harm small farmers.<\/p>\n<p>In part due to these concerns, the EU is giving all importers until 2026 to get up to speed on compliance. But now, lobbyists are pushing the EU to grant smallholders exemptions from the EUDR\u2014a potential death knell for some of Indonesia\u2019s last standing rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201csmallholder\u201d is very ambiguous in Indonesia. Some smallholders run impoverished family farms. Others are local elites who abuse their influence to create mini corporate plantations in protected areas, a growing problem for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/RAN_Orangutan_Capital_Under_Siege_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orangutan capital of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those elites are a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0266178#sec013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major source<\/a> of deforestation in Indonesia, but lobbyists want to have the EU pre-label entire geographic regions as being at \u201cminimal risk\u201d for smallholder deforestation, essentially giving them a pass on EUDR requirements.<\/p>\n<p>While the EU does a poor job of articulating how it will help smallholders meet EUDR requirements, it shouldn\u2019t create major loopholes for small, rogue operators. Instead, it should help smallholders reach full compliance.<\/p>\n<p>If not, the EUDR will become just another paper tiger in a dense overgrowth of hollowed-out \u201czero deforestation\u201d promises.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EU-logs.png\" class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image\" alt=\"\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/the-understory\/palm-oil-lobbyists-water-down-europes-anti-deforestation-law\/\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EU-logs.png\" data-pin-description=\"Palm oil lobbyists water down Europe\u2019s anti-deforestation law\"\/>\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobbyists want to give a pass to small, rogue operators By Timothy Workman The European Union made waves when it passed the landmark EUDR \u201czero deforestation\u201d law in 2023. 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