Norway Bans Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil Biofuels
The Norwegian parliament voted to make Norway the world's first country to ban its biofuel industry from importing deforestation-linked palm oil starting in 2020. A 2017 report by Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) showed palm oil-based biofuels have a more detrimental effect on climate change than using fossil fuels. The resolution calls on the government "to formulate a comprehensive proposal for policies and taxes in the biofuels policy in order to exclude biofuels with high deforestation risk."
- EcoWatch
- Climate Change
- Palm Oil
- Rainforest Foundation Norway
- The Norwegian parliament
- biofuel industry
- importing deforestation-linked palm oil
- fossil fuels
- policies
- taxes
- biofuels policy
- high deforestation risk