Copernicus Sentinel data is being used by chocolate producers to ensure that the cacao they source from tropical regions is not contributing to deforestation. In 2023, the new EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (EUDR) came into force and means that any operator or trader who places certain commodities (including the subject of this case; cocoa) on the EU market, must be able to prove that the products do not originate from recently deforested land or have contributed to forest degradation. In this case, we see how Original Beans, a chocolate manufacturer, is using a service based on Sentinel-2 data in order to ensure and demonstrate that the cacao they source from Peru is not
contributing to deforestation.