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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. .

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

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Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. Palm oil plantation at the edge of a rainforest. “There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue,” Waxman says.

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