Indian palm oil consumption driving deforestation in Indonesia, says Greenpeace

Mongabay: Greenpeace opened a new front in its effort to push Indonesia's palm oil industry to reduce its reliance on forest conversion for oil palm plantations: India, the world's largest market for palm oil. On Tuesday, the activist group launched a new report linking major companies in India to deforestation in Indonesia. It said Ruchi Soya, Adani-Wilmar, ITC, Britannia, Godrej and Parle are among the Indian companies buying from Duta Palma, one of Indonesia's biggest palm oil companies. Greenpeace has...

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