This article takes stock of the many private and public instruments enacted transnationally to tackle the pressing problem of deforestation, ecosystem conversion, and associated human rights violations caused by international demand for and trade in agricultural commodities. The article argues that non-financial due diligence based on no-conversion criteria, and in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, holds considerable potential for ensuring deforestation-free value chains by enrolling and scaling up firm-level supply-chain management systems and private standards. The article introduces the main features of a possible European Union measure that disciplines via non-financial due diligence the placing on the market of commodities and products associated with deforestation, ecosystem conversion, degradation of forests and ecosystems, and associated human rights violations. Such a measure would also have the effect of streamlining initiatives enacted by private authority.

本文评估了许多跨国制定的私人和公共文书，以解决因国际对农产品的需求和贸易而导致的森林砍伐、生态系统转变以及相关的侵犯人权行为等紧迫问题。文章认为，基于不转换标准并符合联合国商业与人权指导原则的非财务尽职调查通过招募和扩大公司层面的供应，在确保无毁林价值链方面具有相当大的潜力-链管理系统和私有标准。本文介绍了一项可能的欧盟措施的主要特点，该措施通过非财务尽职调查来约束与森林砍伐、生态系统转变、森林和生态系统退化，以及相关的侵犯人权行为。这样的措施还将具有简化私人当局制定的举措的效果。