The chocolate industry’s biggest players have admitted that their buying habits have helped destroy virgin forests, and have signed an agreement to help stop deforestation in major cocoa-growing areas. The agreement commits companies like Nestle and Mars to present a plan-of-action to address deforestation at the United Nations Climate Change conference this November.
Chocolate companies are uniting to stop deforestation
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