… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, … from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the agreement was named) represented a dramatic advance in their decades-long efforts to protect …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades that this tropical … environmental NGO, GAR sat down with Greenpeace and in often tense meetings hammered out an agreement that set forth guidelines for operating the company without contributing to … of the countries in which it operated. The company’s leadership had described the agreement with Greenpeace as important, but argued that the compact had not significantly …