| Norway's $700 billion sovereign wealth fund last year stepped up its no-deforestation policy, asking portfolio companies to disclose their impacts on tropical forests as part of the fund's risk management strategy related to climate change. It divested from 23 palm oil companies found to be non-compliant with its policy.
Now the Norwegian Parliament is calling for stricter criteria, including a provision that tree plantations should not count as regrowth of natural forest...............................................Full Article: Source
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