Europe's impacts on tropical forest changes through international trade and supply chains interventions

Abstract

Being both a large producer and consumer of land-based products, Europe has a major influence on global land use, in particular through trade of agricultural and forestry products. Here I will summarize recent works that analyse the different ways by which trade relations between Europe and the rest of the world affect forest cover mainly in the tropical regions. Attention will be paid on the impacts of EU’s domestic land use and forestry policies on other regions. Finally, I will show how emerging tools to intervene on supply chains have the potential to modify the impacts of Europe on forests abroad.