MightyEarth statement on COP soy roadmap announcement

Mighty Earth argues that the agribusiness soy roadmap fails to address the climate and nature crisis because it allows companies to set their own deforestation cut-off dates by 2025 rather than enforcing immediate action. The organization claims this approach undermines Brazil's environmental agenda and ignores demands from supermarkets for a 2020 cut-off date, warning that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point after losing over 2 billion trees in four years.

• Mighty Earth asserts that the soy roadmap is insufficient because it allows individual companies to use 'best efforts' to set their own deforestation cut-off dates by 2025, which the organization claims ensures that 'the bulldozers will keep running and the destruction will continue'.
• The agribusiness plan is described as defying the agenda of President Lula, which prioritizes forests in Brazil's development, as well as requests from supermarkets like Carrefour and Tesco to end deforestation starting in 2020.
• The Amazon has lost over 2 billion trees within the last four years, moving the ecosystem closer to a tipping point where it can no longer assist in cooling the planet.

APA

Jones, S. (2022). MightyEarth statement on COP soy roadmap announcement. Mighty Earth. https://mightyearth.org/article/mighty-earth-statement-on-cop-soy-roadmap-announcement/

Chicago

Jones, Sydney. MightyEarth statement on COP soy roadmap announcement. Mighty Earth, 2022. https://mightyearth.org/article/mighty-earth-statement-on-cop-soy-roadmap-announcement/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Jones |first1=Sydney |title=MightyEarth statement on COP soy roadmap announcement |publisher=Mighty Earth |date=8 November 2022 |url=https://mightyearth.org/article/mighty-earth-statement-on-cop-soy-roadmap-announcement/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{jones2022mightyearth, author = {Jones, Sydney}, title = {{MightyEarth statement on COP soy roadmap announcement}}, publisher = {Mighty Earth}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://mightyearth.org/article/mighty-earth-statement-on-cop-soy-roadmap-announcement/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }