'A national embarrassment': UK imports goods linked to the destruction of a Liverpool-sized forest each year

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Global Witness analysis reveals UK is continuing to import a raft of goods that are directly driving deforestation around the world

Weak regulation of imported goods into the UK is contributing to an area of global forest equivalent to the size of Liverpool being destroyed each year. That is the stark conclusion of a new analysis...

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