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Latest Updates Click for latest news from Argentina
December 6, 2024
ARGENTINE PLATFORM TO FULLFILL EUDR REQUIREMENTS FOR SOYBEAN & CATTLE

This is a presentation made to the 30th MEETING OF THE “EXPERT GROUP/MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM ON PROTECTING AND RESTORING THE WORLD’S FORESTS at the European Commission. VISEC works on value chains for soybean and beef to fulfill EUDR
requirements covering the country and including all
operators of the value chain with independent auditing parties.

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September 24, 2024
Brazil’s Ecological Transition Plan: Paving the Way for the EU-Mercosur Agreement and Enhancing Global Perception

Increased trade in agricultural products between Mercosur countries and the EU could potentially aggravate deforestation, raising questions about the compatibility of the agreement with environmental goals.

 

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August 30, 2024
EU Sanctions Crush Russian Timber

Russia’s supply chain is bleeding, with Western sanctions to blame for one of Russia’s largest forestry and paper companies urgently raising funds through the Moscow Stock Exchange— causing its share price to plunge more than 20% in a single day’s trade.

Russia is suffering from high logistics costs, slowing Chinese demand, and increased competition from India, Brazil, and Argentina, forcing mills to cut production volumes.

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June 28, 2024
Sweeping reform package threatens environmental protections in Argentina, critics say

Lawmakers in Argentina passed a massive reform package to overhaul the economy, but many of its policies weaken protections for local communities and encourage accelerated investment in projects with a record of deforestation and pollution. With over 230 articles, the controversial bill was approved by the senate earlier this month then sent back to the lower house for a final vote.

 

One article in the reform streamlines the development of large investment in infrastructure, oil and gas and the mining of copper and lithium, among other things. It could let companies off the hook for endangering the environment, critics say.

Another article modifies an administrative law on public hearings that could make it harder for local communities to contest new projects.

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March 12, 2024
EU food giants turn blind eye to deforestation in Argentina

This is the second part of a cross-border investigation conducted by Voxeurop and Periodistas por el Planeta into how soy from deforestation-prone areas in Argentina arrives in Europe by exploiting legal loopholes and abusing self-regulation. You can read the first part of this investigation here.

Europe’s food giants turn a blind eye to deforestation in Argentina – VoxEurop

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March 4, 2024
Glencore Plc-backed crop trader Viterra Inc. plans to purchase low-carbon raised, deforestation-free soybeans in Argentina with the help of Bayer AG.

Purchases will start in 2024 and account for about 6% of all Argentina’s soy area in the first year of the deal, Bayer executives Juan Farinati and Fábio Passos said in an interview. The German seed giant will work with 300 Argentine farmers to certify the

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November 27, 2023
Cargill Adds Indirect Suppliers to Anti-Deforestation Pledge

The world’s largest agricultural commodities trader won’t buy any major crops from deforested areas in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay from 2025, it said Monday in a statement. The pledge includes for the first time supplies from third parties — the hardest ones to trace.

 

Cargill is building on last year’s pledge to source deforestation-free soy supplies from the Amazon, Cerrado and Gran Chaco biomes by adding corn, wheat and cotton to its goal and expanding its geographic scope.

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May 15, 2023
High grains prices, low fines spur loss of Argentina's woodlands

Argentina’s native woodlands are under threat from the expansion of soy and cattle ranching, with farmers often willing to accept low fines for clearing land to take advantage of high global grains prices.

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May 4, 2023
Barclays quietly introduces tougher deforestation rules

Barclays has published new supply chain sustainability requirements for clients in forest-risk commodity sectors including beef and palm oil.

Barclay’s has added a new Forestry and Agricultural Commodities statement to its website this week. The statement stipulates that Barclays has “no appetite” to support companies directly involved in illegal forest clearance.

 

From the beginning of July,  beef producers will not be able to undertake work in areas of the Amazon rainforest cleared or converted after 2008.

 

Those producing beef in South America will also need to prove that they gave deforestation-free supply chains by 2025. By the end of 2025, these firms will need to update their policy commitments on deforestation and human rights, and to monitor and report on deforestation-free product volumes.

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April 7, 2023
Ashland wildlife lab’s tools and know-how key to detecting illegal timber imports

Ashland is the unexpected home of the country’s only full-service forensic laboratory devoted to tracking illegally transported animals and plants. Now the lab is employing a new strategy to get forensic tools to U.S. ports to stop the illegal timber trade.

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February 27, 2023
China’s Latin American Gold Rush Is All About Clean Energy: Beijing’s not after gold—but lithium.

Some 60 percent of the world’s lithium reserves can be found in the so-called lithium triangle, a region that encompasses Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. It’s not just lithium either: Peru and Chile are the world’s two largest copper producers, while Brazil is home to 17 percent of all nickel reserves.

 

That has sparked a global scramble to tap the region’s wealth—one in which Chinese companies have an edge. Beyond lithium, Beijing has also struck deals for solar, wind, and hydroelectric projects across the region, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into solar parks in Argentina and Brazil as well as signing contracts for hydroelectric projects in Bolivia and Argentina.

 

Part of the allure of partnering with Beijing, experts say, is the very nature of Chinese deals. China has boasted about its no-strings-attached financing, with fewer economic and political conditions than Western lenders. “[Governments] know that they’re not going to get the same level of quality by partnering with Chinese companies, but they also will get fewer headaches, fewer regulations, fewer lessons on the environment, fewer complaints from [nongovernmental organizations],” Berg said.

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August 1, 2022
Towards a climate change consensus: How mining and agriculture legitimize green extractivism in Argentina

The tech-driven sustainability transition poses new challenges for resource governance.

We identify a discursive reframing of extraction in Argentina: arguments of climate protection are used to justify social-ecological depletion and destruction.

Our findings confirm what Voskoboynik and Andreucci have recently argued: Resource extraction is increasingly proposed as not only compatible, but rather framed as a necessity to deal with climate change.

This green extractivism is grounded in a non-ideological reframing of commodity extraction: the climate change consensus.

The climate change consensus is increasingly replacing the commodity consensus of the 2000s.

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March 24, 2022
Argentine Gendarmerie Seizes Drugs Hidden in Timber Shipments

In recent months, experts have warned about the close relationship between drug trafficking and the illegal timber trade in South America — a reality that is becoming increasingly visible in Argentina. Among the three large drug seizures the Argentine National Gendarmerie made in February 2022, two consisted of marijuana hidden in timber shipments.

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December 22, 2021
Deforestation-free beef plan should be ‘death knell’ for Mercosur

Fianna Fáil MEP, Billy Kelleher  has commented on the agreement between the European Commission and European Council to block products, such a beef or cattle, from entering the EU market which are linked to deforestation, and potential impacts on South American exporters of cattle products.

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Publications Click for publications related to Argentina
While subsistence agriculture and logging still contribute to deforestation, commercial-scale agricultural expansion is now recognized as by far the single largest driver of deforestation worldwide and thus also of greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change. Several initiatives have quantified how much and where deforestation is driven by commercial agriculture, and even how much of this […]
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