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New Forest 500 report finds both public and private sector long way go on deforestation
2015-11-20 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Just 31 companies adopted new deforestation policies or strengthened existing policies in the past year, though two titans of their respective industries, McDonalds and Bunge, did commit to zero net deforestation across all of their commodities supply chains. Just 1 percent of the financial institutions among the Global Canopy Programme's "Forest 500" have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their lending portfolios. Financial institutions and governments play a vital role in creating the...
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