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Is your Christmas dinner driving deforestation?

17 December 2020

Food and gifts given at Christmas often contain ingredients linked to tropical deforestation

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Hidden deforestation in the fashion industry: how bad can a pair of shoes be?

2 October 2019

As Paris Fashion Week draws to a close, the Amazon fires continue.

Not on target: the NYDF companies failing to act

23 September 2019

Thirty one of the companies assessed by Forest 500 are signatories to the New York Declaration on Forests. Has this global commitment led to change in these companies' supply chains?...
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Hidden deforestation in the fashion industry: how sustainable is “sustainable” fabric?

13 September 2019

As London Fashion Week gets underway, we look at the shift to more "sustainable" plant-based materials - and ask whether there could be hidden deforestation in the fabrics being used...
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The clock is ticking

19 July 2019

With less than six months to go, the countdown to the 2020 deadline for company action to tackle deforestation is sounding ominously like a doomsday clock.

Is your beef deforestation-free?

18 June 2019

UK and European consumers could be unintentionally buying deforestation when they purchase beef and leather products.
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European governments and companies failing to address impacts of consumption on tropical forests

11 June 2019

New joint analysis with Trase shows European governments are not doing enough to support companies in making supply chains deforestation-free

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