Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation

China and the EU have a long history of bilateral cooperation on environmental issues. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the potential for alignment and synergies of European and Chinese policies and strategies to address imported deforestation. This study helps to fill that gap by building and expanding on the ‘Brussels Effect’ as a framework to analyse the prospects of policy convergence between the EU and China on imported deforestation.