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Research found that 27 percent of global forest loss is caused by permanent commodity-driven deforestation-as-usual.
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Natural climate solutions could provide more than a third of the emissions reductions we need — so why aren't we paying attention to them?
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Some insights from the global supply chain and sustainability chief of McDonald's.
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Working together can help balance the sometimes seemingly conflicting goals of economic growth, social development and environmental protection.
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Some estimates suggest that up to 30 percent of all timber traded globally may be illegally harvested.
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Re-building resilience, one community at a time.
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People love trees and know that deforestation is harmful. So how do we truly put an end to it?
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Critics say it's too easy for the timber industry to exploit loopholes. Plus, the process isn't reaching a major contributor to tropical deforestation: agricultural organizations.
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Companies interested in cleaning up their supply chains must find better ways of accommodating the economic aspirations of communities in forest-rich developing countries.
by Rod Taylor
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A new platform aims to help financial institutions uncover their exposure to environmental risks from palm oil, soy, cattle trading and timber, amid deforestation fears.
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The research could inform future land-use decisions.
113
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In this week's episode, a GreenBuild recap, how Canopy's founder is winning converts on deforestation and why island microgrids are essential.
by Joel Makower
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A new network has bonded together to use finance to weaken the devastation of forest fires.
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More than 190 governments, businesses and civil society organizations have committed to ending commodity-driven deforestation by 2020.
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It's vines versus old-growth forests, a biodiversity debate with consequences for steelhead trout, mountain lions and spotted owls.
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In this week's episode: Michelin, GM halt deforestation; a G20-approved guide to disclosure; and the troubling new math on carbon reduction.
by Joel Makower
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Deforestation has accelerated in the rubber producing countries of Southeast Asia to feed global demand for tires. But Michelin and now General Motors have launched zero deforestation rubber procurement policies.
119
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The economic benefits of restoring degraded or deforested land are an estimated $84 billion, roughly the entire gross domestic product of Sri Lanka in 2015.
by Andrew Wu
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The multinational personal care companies are among new supporters of the CDP's forest supply chain initiative, which requires deeper disclosure from key suppliers.
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The trees planted under this targeted approach do more than offset emissions. They make supply chains more resilient.
by Meg Wilcox
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Don't brush off tree planting as mere greenwashing. PUR Projet has helped companies offset an admirable 1.4 million tons of carbon, and counting.
by Meg Wilcox
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Corporate exposure to “forest risk commodities” like soy and timber could top $900 billion per year. Now, as institutional investors push companies in all sectors to come clean on their climate-change liabilities and exposure, their impacts on forests could become clearer as well.
by Steve Zwick