{"id":1047399,"date":"2026-06-24T16:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1047399\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:21:33","slug":"uks-long-awaited-action-on-illegal-deforestation-welcomed-by-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1047399\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s long-awaited action on illegal deforestation welcomed by investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/media.responsible-investor.com\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1080705820-716x477.jpg\"   alt=\"UK flag, United Kingdom flag, England flag, British flag, Big Ben, Brexit concept\" title=\"UK flag by Big Ben\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investors, politicians and environmental NGOs have welcomed the UK government\u2019s announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-uks-approach-to-deforestation-regulations\/the-uks-approach-to-deforestation-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to move forward<\/a> on long-awaited action to tackle illegal deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the government said it aims to operationalise regulations under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/world-leading-environment-act-becomes-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2021 Environment Act <\/a>which include prohibiting businesses from using illegally produced forest risk commodities, and establishing and reporting on due diligence systems for each commodity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors, politicians and environmental NGOs have welcomed the UK government\u2019s announcement to move forward on long-awaited action to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1047400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,2311,2437,3927,393,4884,729,1144,2443,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1047399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-climate-change","tag-companies","tag-deforestation","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-nature","tag-northern-ireland","tag-regulation","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116806005070424350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}