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Green groups last week sought to raise the alarm over how soaring global demand for soy is fueling deforestation and rising greenhouse gas emissions, with leading companies accused of failing to adequately deliver on sustainable supply chain pledges and crackdown on suppliers linked to forest clearances.
Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.
WWF, along with Global Canopy, a nonprofit working to create a deforestation-free economy, launched a scorecard to measure the commitments and actions taken by some of the biggest soy companies to address the impact of soy production on forests and human rights abuses in their supply chains. It assessed 22 of the world s soy trading giants, together responsible for more than two-thirds of global soy expo