24 August 2022: In a recently published study, the transparency initiative Trase analyzed how much tropical deforestation German consumption caused between 2014 and 2018: it is 229,600 hectares. Within the five years studied, there is no clear increase or decrease in deforestation. In the calculation, indirect imports (e.g. palm oil from Indonesia, which is exported to Germany via the Netherlands and consumed here) and inputs (e.g. beef from Brazil, where soy was fed) are taken into account in addition to direct imports.
Read more in the German press release by OroVerde