Mongabay: Pig iron producers in the Brazilian state of Maranhão today pledged to stop using charcoal produced from Amazon rainforest logging, reports Greenpeace, which had waged a zero deforestation campaign targeting foreign automakers [PDF] that buy steel from the industry. Greenpeace says the agreement commits pig iron producers to "eliminate Amazon deforestation from their supply chain and implement a monitoring system of charcoal used in their production processes." "This agreement by the industry...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0802-greenpeace-pig-rion.html
Enclosure: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/forests/2012/Amazon/423%20-%20Pig%20Iron.pdf
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