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Commodity series: It’s time to beef up action to protect the Amazon

13 March 2020

Conversion for cattle is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon, yet 79% of the Forest 500 companies assessed for beef had yet to make a commitment.

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Implementing commitments beyond 2020

21 March 2019

The Forest 500 annual report 2018 finds that companies are not on track to meet the 2020 deforestation goal - and companies need to do more to implement the commitments they have made.

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Facing up to the risks of illegality in your supply chain

29 November 2018

Almost half of all tropical deforestation is due to the illegal conversion of forests for commercial agriculture, according to a new report from the New York Declaration on Forests Assessment...

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Adding more companies to the Forest 500

31 May 2018

This year we are adding an extra 100 companies to the Forest 500 to allow greater visibility of the corporate powerbrokers linked to tropical deforestation than ever before. ...

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Companies still falling short on deforestation: more action needed

14 December 2017

The latest Forest 500 results show a lack of overarching deforestation policies across all sectors - and policies in the beef and leather supply chains are particularly scarce .