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Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark: Report
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Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark: Report

A new report from Greenpeace contends that multinational consumer goods companies are addressing the global plastics crisis with "false solutions."

New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation
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New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation

Over the past decade there has been a rise in corporate zero-deforestation commitments, but very few companies have shown progress in meeting their goals of reducing deforestation in their supply chains by 2020.

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia's forests

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia's forests

An Indonesian-owned plantation company operating in Liberia has come under renewed scrutiny for allegedly clearing hundreds of hectares of protected forestland, including chimpanzee habitat, wetlands and river buffer zones.

Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report
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Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report

Major agribusiness firms are using opaque corporate structures to gain access to palm oil sourced from plantations operating in violation of their sustainability commitments, according to an investigation into the practice by a leading research group. The report, by risk analysis group Chain Reaction Research (CRR), alleges that large conglomerates in Southeast Asia’s plantation sector …
When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

Activists have warned of a worrying number of farmers in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province being driven off their land by palm oil companies, often with the support of the local police and officials.

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