deforestation

The Southeast Asian country has stated it cannot “promise what [it] can’t do”

The pledge is underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds

Its new pledge includes switching to 100% renewable energy and ‘strongly linking’ executive pay to climate action

New research finds more than half of the UK public would like to see the government reduce emissions at a faster pace

The company plans to give its shareholders a chance to vote on its green policy every three years in a bid to offer more transparency on its progress

The confectionery and food giant plans to cut the number of palm sourcing mills from 1,500 to fewer than 100 by 2021

That’s according to the Senior Research Leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Dr Olwen Grace who spoke to FNZ about the world’s methods of producing ‘green energy’

The government says currently, many of the products bought in the UK use ingredients that have been produced in countries where there is a high risk of deforestation

Larger companies will face fines if they are not able to demonstrate their supply chains are free from illegal deforestation

Advocacy group Instituto Socioambiental says  more than 24,000 hectares of forest were cleared illegally within indigenous lands in just eight months