Environmental Auditors Approve Green Labels for Products Linked to Deforestation and Authoritarian Regimes

Inside Climate News · By Scilla Alecci · last updated March 5, 2023 – 12:04 AM

A new ICIJ-led cross-border investigation exposes how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations when granting environmental certifications.

By Scilla Alecci

Major environmental auditing firms ignore or fail to recognize glaring environmental damage caused by loggers and other clients whose practices they certify as sustainable, undercutting an elaborate global system meant to fight forest destruction and climate change.

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