After commemorating 20 Years of Certification in February, there was an opinion that the impact of certification systems against forest destruction is still.. well let's say.. less significant.
Yet economic and social benefits don’t need to be mutually exclusive. Of course, there’s no silver bullet, but we can start by channelling investment and political will into UK industries that have a broader multiplying effect on society beyond their basic financial contribution.
Business enterprise projects tend to be a difficult project to complete because they require suitably prolonged solutions, extensive groundwork and suitable income backups.
As the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 gathers for its general assembly in Jakarta this week, two of the world’s largest palm oil companies, Unilever and Wilmar, tell us how their commitments to ending deforestation are working out.