Deforestation pledge will fail unless consumers switch to more sustainable food sources

100 world leaders, including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, pledged to not only end but also to reverse the highly damaging process of deforestation.

Unless consumers are willing to shift to more sustainable food sources, the target of ending deforestation by 2030 may not be met.

That is the view of one of Ireland’s foremost environmental science experts in reaction to the global pledge by world leaders to end the practice by 2030.