Earth editorial note
The collapse of the Amazon Soy Moratorium is the most consequential deforestation supply-chain story of 2026. Every major commodity trader — Cargill, ADM, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, COFCO, Amaggi, Glencore — has now withdrawn from the 2008 private-sector agreement that banned soy purchases from land deforested after that year. A new study in Science estimates 9.1 million hectares of private forest are now at risk, with a projected 1.4 million hectares of additional deforestation over the next decade, releasing roughly 745 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent — comparable to Canada's annual emissions.
The trigger was a Mato Grosso state law stripping tax exemptions from companies applying stricter environmental standards than state law requires. With the regulatory backstop gone, independent satellite detection and transparency become the only remaining accountability layer for Amazon soy supply chains.
Original source
Mongabay
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/end-of-brazils-soy-moratorium-risks-millions-of-hectares-of-amazon-rainforest-study/
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