Deforestation Free Legislation

This week, 38 New York legislators are calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to protect the world’s rainforests and sign the Tropical Rainforest Economic & Environmental Sustainability (TREES) Act.

This is the most substantial climate legislation awaiting action by the Governor and the most important pending deforestation measure we know of in the world.

In New York, Governor Hochul can help end this devastation of Indigenous communities and endangered species with a commonsense climate solution.

The ongoing destruction of the earth’s last great rainforests is as unforgivable as it is irreversible, and is inextricably tied to labor abuses, violence against human rights defenders, species ext…

The TREES Act will make sure New York government agencies don’t use taxpayer money on certain goods and products derived from tropical deforestation.

The NY TREES Act would make New York the first U.S. state to prevent its public procurement from driving tropical deforestation, defending the planet from further climate catastrophe.

Global forests are the planet’s best defense against further climate catastrophe, and that makes the TREES Act reintroduction all the more critical.