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Companies inconsistent in approach to deforestation risks: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... CDP, demand for four agricultural commodities drives global deforestation - cattle products, palm oil, timber products and soy. These commodities appear in supply chains in companies across sectors, and CDP notes that deforestation related to those four ...

Westpac signs on to Soft Commodities Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... supply chains of commodities that are grown rather than mined to reduce tropical deforestation. Palm oil, timber products, soy and beef will be the first soft commodities targeted under the initiative. The Soft Commodities Compact is "an important step ...

CDP: companies unaware of deforestation supply chain risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... to a call for disclosure on their exposures to deforestation risk through use of five agricultural commodities - palm oil, soy, biofuels, timber, and cattle products. Those five commodities are responsible for most deforestation, CDP said. Companies ...

Transition to sustainable palm oil needs "significant work"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... concerns because of palm oil's high concentration of saturated fat, compared with other liquid vegetable oils including canola, soy and olive, the report says. The environmental and sustainability concerns include the impacts of deforestation in Malaysia ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... including climate change and the increased likelihood of damaging, catastrophic weather events, "[g]rowing demand for palm oil, soy, beef, and other agri-commodities creates increasing pressure for land, which can impact timberland highest and best use ...
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