The landmark EUDR is scheduled to take effect next year but some governments and business groups are pushing back.

The European Union is debating delaying a landmark deforestation regulation that has led to massive backlash among stakeholders. Environmental NGOs and politicians warn a delay would threaten forests and the climate.

Centre-right lawmakers in the European Parliament have made proposals to further weaken the European Union's beleaguered law to ban commodity imports linked to deforestation, a document seen by Reuters showed.

The European Parliament should reject proposed amendments to the European Union’s Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR).

The landmark EUDR is scheduled to take effect next year but some governments and business groups are pushing back.

The largest political group in the European Parliament is counting on support from the far right to gut a law that would keep products linked to deforestation off the market, in a move that risks undermining the EU’s position at the COP29 climate talks.