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After GAR expands policy, over 50% of world's palm oil bound by zero deforestation commitments
Description: Over half the world's palm oil traded internationally is now bound by zero deforestation commitments after Singapore-based Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) extended its forest conservation policy across all palm oil it produces, sources and trades. In a filing posted Friday with the Singapore Stock Exchange, GAR announced its breakthrough forest conservation policy - which when established in 2011 was the first by a palm oil major - now applies to all the palm oil it trades. [Source: Mongabay]
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0303-gar-palm-oil.html
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Source: Mongabay
Publish Date: 3/3/2014
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