{"id":656022,"date":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656022\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","slug":"uks-long-awaited-action-on-illegal-deforestation-welcomed-by-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656022\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s long-awaited action on illegal deforestation welcomed by investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/media.responsible-investor.com\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1080705820-716x477.jpg\"   alt=\"UK flag, United Kingdom flag, England flag, British flag, Big Ben, Brexit concept\" title=\"UK flag by Big Ben\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investors, politicians and environmental NGOs have welcomed the UK government\u2019s announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-uks-approach-to-deforestation-regulations\/the-uks-approach-to-deforestation-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to move forward<\/a> on long-awaited action to tackle illegal deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the government said it aims to operationalise regulations under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/world-leading-environment-act-becomes-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2021 Environment Act <\/a>which include prohibiting businesses from using illegally produced forest risk commodities, and establishing and reporting on due diligence systems for each commodity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors, politicians and environmental NGOs have welcomed the UK government\u2019s announcement to move forward on long-awaited action to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[556,2980,4890,59,57,58,548,50,306,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-climate-change","tag-companies","tag-deforestation","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}