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A recipe for sustainability

Published on 01 Aug 2015
Palm-oil firms are trying to go green. Governments could do more to help. Indonesia says it wants to cut its carbon-dioxide emissions by more than a quarter by 2020; since 2011 it has trumpeted a patchily-enforced ban on tree-felling in its thickest jungles. But the government is “nervous” about the newfound conservationism among big palm-oil firms, reckons Krystof Obidzinski of CIFOR, a forestry think-tank.
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