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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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'More emissions than Exxon': Is meat the next target for divestment?

Business Green

As SIGWATCH data shows (see graph above), while campaigning on meat divestment has a way to go before it reaches the dizzying heights of carbon divestment, it is seeing a sustained increase that correlates with greater attention on industrial agriculture's contribution to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Simplification and satellites: Inside Mars' zero deforestation palm oil strategy

Business Green

The food giant reveals how a simplification of a once sprawling palm oil supply chain has helped the company to ensure it can deliver on its sustainable sourcing pledges. The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO.

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