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The global pharmaceuticals giant expands a global reforestation program to support its 2045 net-zero and nature goals.
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The deadline for 2025 corporate deforestation commitments is just around the corner. Here’s how companies can succeed.
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Sponsored: We all depend on healthy forests — and so does our economy. Here are key lessons from a company aiming to counteract deforestation for their products.
by James McCall
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The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) asked food, agriculture and land-use companies to commit to ending deforestation by 2025.
by Amber Rolt
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Brazil single-handedly accounted for over a third of all loss of humid tropical primary forests worldwide, with more primary forest lost than any other tropical country in 2019.
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Sponsored: How goods are packaged is driving consumer purchasing decisions.
by Ian Lifshitz
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And only 8 percent of global companies involved in the production of commodities associated with deforestation have publicly committed to ending it.
by Steve Zwick
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The U. N. Sustainable Development Goals could be a game changer for forestry and agriculture, although challenges remain.
by Steve Zwick
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As companies such as Walmart, Nestlé and Unilever vow to combat deforestation, a few key actions would make an outsized impact.
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A new study calls out PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson for stalled efforts.
by James Murray
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The New York Declaration in September catalyzed political and corporate action, firmly moving deforestation into the mainstream.
by Will Nichols
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A total of 34 companies signed the New York Declaration on Forests this week at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York.
by Mike Hower
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Primatologist Biruté Galdikas thought all was lost when she learned that palm oil company PT Best was about to destroy Borneo's Seruyan Forest.
by Steve Zwick
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BusinessGreen Plus reveals how the company developed a sustainability strategy that has even won over Greenpeace.
by James Murray
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The climate talks could see a measured progress toward new global agreement.
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If the company's partnership with a tiny biotech upstart delivers on its promises, it could start sourcing and processing the material at commercial scale in the southeastern U.S.
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Activists from the Rainforest Action Network are targeting The Walt Disney Company for a slack paper-buying policy that allows children's books to be printed from rainforest-destroying pulp.
by Marc Gunther
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With its first combined CSR report, the American Forest and Paper Association aims to boost the industry's paper recovery and recycling rates while cutting emission and increasing energy efficiency.
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Georgia Pacific's recent commitment to expand its sustainable forestry practices could help transform the entire paper industry; even if the company's overally environmental performance isn't flawless, it's an important project for the NRDC to get behind.
by Peter Lehner
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A new partnership from the World Bank will give developing countries the tools they need to integrate the value of their natural environments into their national accounting systems.
by Robert Kropp
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General Mills and Walmart have both made smart business decisions by committing to use 100 percent sustainable palm oil. Companies that ignore supply chain risks such as deforestation put their company's reputation and profits at risk, and investors are starting to notice.
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General Mills became the latest company to declare it would only buy palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible means.
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eBay made a big push Monday to get consumers to commit to using products over new ones with the launch of a new green shopping website. The company will reward the first 250,000 people who make the reuse pledge with a donation toward the protection of an acre of rainforest.
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The exhibits and side events at the climate conference are bustling with activity and serious discussions on deforestation and a multitude of other issues. Non-governmental organizations from literally nearly everywhere in the world are here.
by Steve Thomas