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40% of the Forest 500 have yet to set a single policy on deforestation

15 February 2023

Global Canopy’s 9th annual Forest 500 report and ranking finds that the companies and financial institutions with the most influence on deforestation are taking insufficient action on deforestation, with the finance sector “woefully behind”.

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Forest 500 analysis shows that the companies with the greatest influence on deforestation are currently unprepared for incoming EU regulation

13 March 2023

The new EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) is a welcome and significant step in the efforts to eliminate deforestation. However, the majority of the companies in the Forest 500 have...

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Ship in Brazilian port

Too little, too late: traders' roadmap to 1.5C lacks ambition

25 November 2022

Fourteen traders committed at COP26 “to catalyse further progress on eliminating commodity driven deforestation” and by COP27 to “lay out a shared roadmap for enhanced supply chain action consistent...

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McDonald's food

Fast food giants won’t reach net zero while deforestation is on the menu

17 November 2022

Global Canopy’s annual Forest 500 report and ranking of the companies most exposed to deforestation-risk shows that although Burger King, KFC and McDonald’s perform better than their competitors, the...

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Tibal Elder, Binan Tukum

Why companies must act to protect forest, land and human rights defenders

9 November 2022

A look at why companies need to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to threats and violence against forest, land and human rights defenders, in line with a new Forest 500 indicator.

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Jurisdictional approaches - what are they and why are they important?

20 September 2022

Some companies see partnership with local governments as a way to ensure deforestation-free supply chains, but their results are not guaranteed.

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Brazilian Indigenous leaders, including Célia Xakriabá

Investing in protecting human rights

8 September 2022

Too few financial institutions are taking the necessary action to ensure they are not financing human rights abuses linked to deforestation.

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