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Search platform allows investors to identify investments in deforestation funds

Deforestation Free Funds is a search platform that enables people to find out if their money, in the form of individual investments or an employer-provided 401(k), may be causing tropical deforestation through investment in companies that produce, consume, or finance palm oil – the fastest growing cause of rainforest destruction today. Palm oil is not the only cause of deforestation. Over time we will expand the tool to cover other industries that cause rainforest destruction; for now, Deforestation Free Funds begins with palm oil because the unsustainable expansion of this industry is causing social conflict and human rights abuses in tropical countries, driving endangered species to the edge of extinction, and driving Indigenous Peoples off their land.”

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