EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Mongabay
Nov 10, 2022, 7:10 am260 pts
BERLIN — Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union’s proposal of a regulation that they say negates more than a decade of progress by the Southeast Asian country to comply with EU sustainable timber rules. Under a voluntary partnership agreement, or VPA, signed in 2011, Indonesia developed a…

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