Investigating the pledge of zero-deforestation
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 2015-03-16

Private companies, governments, indigenous groups and civil society have signed a “zero-deforestation” pledge. What are the chances of success? Is the aim too high, or, in this climate of corporate and government responsibility is this the beginning of a new era in environmental good citizenship?
 
Krystof Obidzinski and Steven Lawry from CIFOR discuss the goals and targets and how the outcomes of the pledge will be judged.