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EurActiv (10 July 2020)

The EU must take an aggressive “stick and carrot” approach to trade deals in order to put an end to deforestation and avert a next pandemic, writes Fazlun Khalid.

Fazlun Khalid is an advisor to the UN, founder of Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) and author of “Signs on the Earth – Islam, Modernity & the Climate Crisis”.

A new World Wildlife Fund report, released around the same time as a sharp acceleration in Amazon deforestation, concludes that the rampant destruction of nature led to the COVID-19 pandemic – a view reinforced by the UN and WHO.

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