'Shooting themselves in the foot': ZSL warns palm oil firms to step up climate risk management

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A palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia | Credit: Zoological Society of London
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A palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia | Credit: Zoological Society of London

ZSL urges the palm oil industry to implement climate risk strategies as report reveals just seven of top 100 producers have such plans in place

Many of the world's biggest palm oil producers are vastly unprepared for the major risks climate change poses to their business, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has warned. The international...

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