Cocoa traceability rates fail to improve as EU deforestation law looms

1/10/2024 19:36

        The volume of cocoa in Ivory Coast and Ghana that can be fully traced did not increase last year, a major UN-backed report has found, raising questions about how the world's top two cocoa growers will comply with a new EU law banning the import of commodities linked to deforestation.
        
        The new law next year will require importers of commodities and related goods to prove their products weren't grown on deforested land by, amongst other measures, tracing their supply chains down to the plot where their raw materials were grown.