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The UK must help to strengthen the resilience of its global supply chains and ensure they do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and the destruction of nature, or cause harm to people overseas 5-9% the UK’s share of global land footprint for cocoa, palm oil and pulp and paper.
WWF and RSPB report Risky Business: Understanding the UK’s overseas footprint for deforestation – risk commodities. UK demand for and trade in these commodities could be affecting more than 2,800 species already threatened with extinction (including orangutan populations in Sumatra and wild cat populations in South America, such as the northern tiger cat). UK legislation does not require these impacts to be monitored or mitigated. Greenhouse gas emissions arising from imported commodities are included in UK environmental accounts, but not in the UK carbon budget or climate strategy – so there are no requirements to mitigate them.