047 | An Accountability Framework For Deforestation
Environmental NGOs have long pressured companies to reduce their impact on forests, and companies have long complained that every NGO seems to come with different demands.
Now a coalition of more than a dozen NGOs have called the corporate bluff by creating a framework that provides a universal way of accounting for deforestation.
They call it the Accountability Framework, and today's guest, Jeff Milder, is one of the people helping to pull it together.
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