Earth Moves (or not) Toward a Sustainable Future
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Palm Oil production has increased by 400% over twenty years. Consumers are increasing demands for traceable deforestation-free palm oil. Plantations could use degraded lands instead of taking over forested areas to plant the crop.
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The United Nations will host a world summit on Climate change in September, 2014 to help advance a global climate change treaty.
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A billion voters in three of the world’s largest democracies – India, Brazil and Indonesia - will have the final say on the future of a sustainable world as they choose new heads of state in 2014.
