The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres

Almost all tropical deforestation is driven by demand for four commodities: beef, soy, palm oil, and wood. Beef cattle are responsible for more than double the deforestation of the other three combined. In the Amazon, providing land for beef cattle to graze on is directly responsible for more than 80 per cent of the deforestation.49 In addition, much of the soy is used as feedstock for chickens, pigs and cattle.