ENVIRONMENT
Deforestation-free supply chains have been established for a range of commodities, and some third-party environmental certification systems are in place, but as ever, it is important for ethical consumers to vigilantly look out for companies providing misleading information about their environmental responsibility, or ‘greenwash’.
Toward zero deforestation – what you can do too
The global rate of deforestation has fortunately halved over the past 25 years. Despite this encouraging trend, consumers need to take a proactive stand to help curb further losses.
by Martin Oliver
DEFORESTATION AROUND THE GLOBE In May 2016, Norway became the first country to adopt a zero deforestation policy by ensuring that its public procurement policies do not contribute to deforestation. This move follows years of lobbying by a group known as the Rainforest Foundation Norway. Lush and highly biodiverse, the
planet’s tropical rainforests are threatened in many areas of the world by human activities. Increasingly, rainforest loss is linked to large industrial-scale operations rather than subsistence- shifting cultivation practices. Rainforest loss contributes to climate change via releases of the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane.
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PREVENTING GREENWASH WITH CERTIFICATION Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certification applies to timber, wood products and paper. Despite being the most credible scheme in the marketplace, FSC rules for tropical regions do allow some logging of old-growth rainforests, and this has understandably attracted some criticism. Figures such as primatologist Jane Goodall have called for consumers to avoid all wood sourced from tropical forests. Several, generally small, environment groups have withdrawn their support from the FSC in recent years. Greenpeace has dismissed other less
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