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Palm Oil

As China Touts Green Financing and Climate Goals, Its Banks Are Pouring Billions Into Commodities From the World’s Rainforests

China plays a growing role in the future of the planet’s tropical forests, but a new report says its financial flows are going in the wrong direction.

By Georgina Gustin

Cows graze on deforested land in Madre de Dios, Peru. Credit: Angela Ponce/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Herzuza Dongkin’s 3-acre oil palm plantation is harvested by family and community members near Kampung Chenderong Kelubi in the Malaysian state of Perak.

Changes May Ease Burdens of European Deforestation Regulation on Small Palm Farms, but Not the Confusion

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

A man walks up to a palm oil factory operated by an Astra Agro Lestari subsidiary in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Seven10 Media/Friends of the Earth

Is This Palm Oil Company Operating on Protected Forestland?

By Jenaye Johnson

Indonesia: Palm Oil Giant to End Deforestation

By Fiona Harvey, Guardian

A Breakthrough for Preserving Wetlands Globally

By Stacy Feldman

EU Fuel Rules Could Exacerbate the Palm Oil Problem

By Max Ajl

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