The 10 Terms in the Glossary

A third of all global greenhouse gas emissions come from the industrial food system. The idea of zero deforestation is really just to sort of carve things out and say, okay, well, you have like, you know, imagine a large forest and half of it is already deforested. And then the crops that are being grown in that area or the cattle that are being raised in that area can be considered not to be causing any further deforestation. That's where you get the this term zero deforestation. But of course, there's all kinds of loopholes in it and there's, and their structural need for more commodities means that there's a constant call out that keeps happening.