# Can Trade Agreements Promote Sustainable Forest Management?
      
        
          - Centre for International Governance Innovation

> A Centre for International Governance Innovation commentary argues that trade agreements could be used to promote sustainable forest management in the Amazon. It cites deforestation driven largely by soy production, cattle rearing and logging.

- Date: 2019-11-14 · published 2019-11-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Brazil · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/56087-can-trade-agreements-promote-sustainable-forest-management-centre-for
- Commodities: [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md)

## Why it matters

Trade-linked deforestation rules could eventually restrict Brazilian soy and beef exports, but this is an opinion piece with no concrete policy change, so market impact is minimal.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: neutral

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## Sources

- cigionline.org: https://www.cigionline.org/articles/can-trade-agreements-promote-sustainable-forest-management/

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