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It attributes the worsening violence against Indigenous Peoples to the government of Jair Bolsonaro and the management of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). 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Furthermore, it argues that compliance costs are likely to be negligible when implemented at scale and that voluntary certification schemes, while useful tools, cannot serve as automatic evidence of compliance due to documented shortcomings in governance and reliability.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"client-000560#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The proposed EU regulation requires operators to collect 'geo-localisation coordinates, latitude and longitude of all plots of land where the relevant [Covered Products] were produced' as part of their due diligence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"client-000560#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The regulation does not mandate specific supply chain structures; operators are not required to use 'identity preserved' or 'segregated' models, and supply chains with products of mixed origin are permissible provided they are traceable.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"client-000560#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Geolocation Requirement does not require operators to link every individual unit of a commodity (e.g., a single soybean or drop of palm oil) to a specific plot of land, but rather to identify all plots of land associated with the quantity of products supplied by a particular supplier.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"client-000560#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Traceability to the farm level is presented as feasible for smallholders, with evidence that 22.8% of global cocoa fields are already certified by standards including traceability, and the Coffee-Cocoa Board in Côte d’Ivoire has georeferenced 993,031 cocoa farmers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"client-000560#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["deforestation","forest degradation","smallholder","sustainable agriculture"],"geography_discussed":["Brazil","Ivory Coast","Ghana","Indonesia","Malaysia","Cameroon","Colombia","France"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","industry critique"]},{"id":"geconco-000127","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/geconco-000127","title":"Setting a structural agenda for a green economic recovery from COVID-19","publisher":{"name":"Green Economy Coalition","organization":"green-economy-coalition"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2022-06","source_url":"https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/GEC-Reports/Structural_Agenda_GE_Recovery_COVID19_PIGE_Paper_May22-v1.2.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The paper argues that COVID-19 recovery should move beyond short-term stimulus to 'structural reforms' that are systemic, long-lasting, and general purpose. 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