Norway Becomes First Country In The World To Commit To Zero Deforestation
by The Daily Eye Team June 7 2016, 2:55 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secsNorway has become the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation. The
Norwegian parliament pledged the government’s public procurement policy will become deforestation-free after a committee of MPs recommended
imposing regulations to ensure the state did "not contribute to deforestation of the rainforest". Norway funds forest conservation projects worldwide and also supports human rights programmes for forest communities.