Sky News live with Jayne Secker

I was invited on Sky News live with Jayne Secker, to discuss the findings of the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Global Deforestation.

The report warned the UK is far off track from the 2030 goal to halt and reverse forest loss - and called for three urgent reforms to the UK's approach, all of which I recommended in my oral evidence to the inquiry:

💰 Introduce a new due diligence law to stop British financial institutions providing billions to companies with inadequate systems to prevent deforestation.

🌎 Amend the Environment Act to prohibit the import of ALL deforestation goods. We need trade which is not just legal, but also sustainable.

✊ Ensure our human rights expectations are explicit in that Act.

Deforestation, evictions, intimidation and violence go hand in hand. We have to tackle them together - and get money flowing to local communities - if we want to keep forests standing.

MPs in the inquiry were shocked to hear Global Witness recorded an average of one environmental activist killed every other day in 2022.

Watch a clip here.