Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is a 19-year-old voluntary private-sector agreement to not source soybeans from areas deforested after 2008 in the Brazilian Amazon. It is estimated to have kept at least 18,000 square kilometers (6,950 square miles) of rainforest standing. Environmental NGOs, including Greenpeace Brazil and Imaflora, warn that suspending the soy moratorium could put huge areas of the Amazon rainforest at risk of being deforested and replaced with soy farms. “Dismantling an effective, internationally recognized agreement built over nearly twenty years, in the name of unchecked deforestation

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