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Forest twice size of UK destroyed in decade for big consumer brands - report

Karen McVeigh, the Guardian
clock 11 June 2019 •
Forest twice size of UK destroyed in decade for big consumer brands - report

Greenpeace estimates 50 million hectares cleared by 2020, warning companies must evolve to prevent 'climate breakdown'

An area twice the size of the UK has been destroyed for products such as palm oil and soy over the last decade, according to analysis by Greenpeace International. In 2010, members of the Consumer Goods...

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