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To achieve emissions reduction goals in a credible manner, companies with significant land footprints must take early action to eliminate deforestation and conversion.
Giving indigenous communities legal title to their land has been shown to be more effective at protecting forests than declaring them national parks.
Treehugger spoke to Ruth Rennie, Rainforest Alliance's director of standards and assurances, for an in-depth look at what the new standard brings to the world of sustainable and ethical agriculture.
Governments must invest far more in protecting the world's tropical forests, a key ally in warding off climate change and future pandemics.
Conventional farming is one of the world's greatest drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss, and we're running out of time to reverse its adverse effects.
People and nature are inextricably linked - the wellbeing of one is central to the other and vice versa. Sustainability is the true intersection of people, planet and profit which gives us hope for the future.