nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230803-224224-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230803s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230803-224224-0 doi eng 342 23 Klimke, Romy Author aut Out of the Woods? - Human Rights and the New EU Regulation on Deforestation  Klimke, Romy Verfassungsblog 2023-08-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Large-scale deforestation not only accelerates climate change and biodiversity loss, it is also a serious threat to human rights. While the EU has pursued strategies to combat illegal logging since the early 2000s, it has mostly turned a blind eye to the adverse human rights effects of deforestation. The new EU Regulation on Deforestation (EUDR) acknowledges that human rights and the protection of forests are inextricably linked, but is this really a “major step for ‘deforestation-free’ trade”? This post provides a brief introduction to the EUDR, its most salient features, and critically, its weak points. CC BY-SA 4.0 Deforestation environmental law EU EUDR Human Rights indigenous peoples Supply Chain Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/out-of-the-woods/ raw object