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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.

Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds
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Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds

China imports more than 60 percent of the world's soy, meaning that the country could play a major role in halting deforestation and slowing climate change if companies and banks focus on stopping deforestation to grow the crop.

Colombia pledges to produce deforestation-free chocolate
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Colombia pledges to produce deforestation-free chocolate

The government of Colombia along with the National Cocoa Federation and one of the country's largest chocolate producers has committed to ending deforestation in its cocoa supply chain 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 …
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