Stephen Cadogan: Improved farming has saved a billion hectares of forest

Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of the European Green Deal, Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, and Virginijus Sinkevicius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. Picture: Jennifer Jacquemart

There was an eloquent, if perhaps unintended, comment on the EU’s sustainability plans, at an important event in the US last week.