Mongabay: Over half the world's palm oil traded internationally is now bound by zero deforestation commitments after Singapore-based Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) extended its forest conservation policy across all palm oil it produces, sources and trades.
In a filing posted Friday Singapore Stock Exchange, GAR announced its breakthrough forest conservation policy - which when established in 2011 was the first by a palm oil major - now applies to all the palm oil it trades.
"Golden Agri-Resources (GAR)...