Rio+20 seen as last chance for rainforest

Financial Times: When Greenpeace accused Brazil's JBS, the world's largest beef exporter, of sourcing cattle from illegally deforested parts of the Amazon this month, the company's response was swift. An angry JBS immediately filed a lawsuit against the environmental activist group and won a court injunction last week restricting dissemination of Greenpeace's report. Round one may have gone to JBS but Greenpeace's timing could hardly have been more strategic. Its attack on the meatpacker came as a long-running...

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