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Actualit\u00e9s<\/p>\n

19 septembre 2025<\/p>\n

Africa takes the lead on building deforestation-free value chains <\/h1>\n

Joint Press release of the Africa Climate and Energy Nexus, European Union and Enabel<\/p>\n \n \"panelists\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n

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Addis Ababa, 19 September 2025 – At the 2nd Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), that took place on September 8-10 2025 in Addis Ababa, African governments, farmer cooperatives, private innovators, and international partners joined forces to showcase pioneering solutions for meeting the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR), while strengthening rural livelihoods and protecting forests.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The side event, \u201cBuilding Deforestation-Free Value Chains: Lessons from Africa\u2019s Coffee and Cocoa Sectors and Beyond\u201d<\/em> highlighted Africa\u2019s leadership in developing scalable models, which deliver future proof and sustainable solutions that are in line with joint commitments, via concrete examples from Uganda and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. This event was hosted at the Team Europe Pavilion within ACS2, which represented the strong joint commitment of Europe and Africa to accelerate climate action and celebrated both the 50 anniversary of the EU-Ethiopian relations and the 25 anniversary of the AU-EU partnership (#AUEU25).<\/p>\n

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Consumers no longer want to eat forests away \u2013 neither in Europe nor in Africa<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The EUDR is closely linked to the \u201cGlasgow Leaders\u2019 Declaration on Forests and Land Use\u201d<\/strong>, in which Leaders from 34 African countries and from all 27 European Union member confirmed \u201cWe therefore commit to working collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and promoting an inclusive rural transformation.\u201d<\/em>1<\/p>\n

Yet, the challenge remains immense. The World Resources Institute (WRI), through its Global Forest Watch platform, reported in May 2025 a global record of 6.7 million hectares of primary tropical forest lost in 2024. This alarming rate of loss puts the global goal of ending deforestation by 2030 significantly off track. While tree cover loss outside the tropics decreased, the increase in tropical primary forest loss was so severe that global tree cover loss rose by 19% in 2024. WRI\u2019s latest analysis also shows that 92% of deforestation in Africa between 2021 and 2024 was driven by permanent agriculture and shifting cultivation.2<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is why the EUDR is so important \u2013 particularly for Africa, where addressing agricultural drivers of deforestation is central to both protecting forests and securing sustainable livelihoods.<\/p>\n

The objectives of the EUDR are:<\/p>\n