Weekly podcast: Global Canopy on why palm oil, soy, cattle and timber supply chains look set to miss 2020 deforestation targets

The top 500 companies with deforestation risks should still be more ambitious

This week: Global Canopy’s Sarah Rogerson, lead researcher on the just-launched 2018 Forest 500 report, on how far companies are implementing tropical deforestation commitments and why even the leading companies are not innovating fast enough.

Plus: Malaysia takes on the EU at the WTO over palm oil ban, some evidence that MSC certification prevents seafood fraud, a new plastic recycling incentive scheme in Latin America from PepsiCo, and why recycling rates in the US are collapsing, in the news digest.

Hosted by Ian Welsh