The EU's great green retreat benefits the far right. For the rest of us, it's a looming disaster | Arthur Neslen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : That would be a global gamechanger, because the EU's deforestation law is a green jewel in European commission's president Ursula von der Leyen's crown that has garnered praise and inspired imitations beyond the EU.
56% : The EU could also clamp down on commodity speculation with better market monitoring, price controls on futures markets, and an excess profits tax for commodity index funds and other derivates trades.
48% : But farmers' demands have been many and various, and typically centred on three grievances: a financial squeeze caused by fixed low retail pricing for their products, high input prices turbocharged by commodity speculation around the Ukraine war, and fears that the trade deal between the EU and South America's Mercosur bloc will increase imports from countries with lower environmental and animal health standards.
46% : The difference, says Pieter de Pous, of the independent climate-change thinktank E3G, is that "unlike with the school strikes, the commission and EU ministers didn't even wait for the election results to come in this time.
40% : EU consumption of these commodities has caused about 10% of global forest loss.

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