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Podcast: Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum
Episode: Deforestation: is there too much focus on palm oil?
Description: Announcements at COP26 have refocused attention on to the need for companies to transparently and immediately eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. However, new Aidenvironment research warns palm oil buyers of the risks from non-palm deforestation by companies in the palm oil sector. This begs the question – how credible are corporate deforestation-free palm oil claims?
In this hour-long webinar, an expert panel discussed:
Why a focus on palm oil has meant that other deforestation risks haven’t had the profile they perhaps should.
The critical challenge of “leakage” in terms of where deforestation risks are in value ch...