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Q: Norway 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. 
  
 Nils Hermann Ranum, the head of Policy and Campaign at Rainforest Foundation Norway, said in a statement: “This is an important victory in the fight to protect the rainforest. Over the last few years, a number of companies have committed to cease the procurement of goods that can be linked to destruction of the rainforest. 
  
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 “Until now, this has not been matched by similar commitments from governments. Thus, it is highly positive that the Norwegian state is now following suit and making the same demands when it comes to public procurements”. 
  
 The Rainforest Foundation Norway has campaigned for years to secure a zero deforestation commitment from the Norwegian government. 
  
 The MPs' committee also called for the government to protect biodiversity by developing a separate policy and through investments made by Norges Bank Investment Management. 
  
 Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: Biggest threats to the rainforests Show all 10 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: Biggest threats to the rainforests 1/10 Borneo Destruction of the rainforest, deforestation in Borneo 2/10 Brazil Aerial view af an area devastated by clandestine gold mining in the Jamanxim National Forest, state of Para. With 1,3 million hectares, the Jamanxim National Forest is a microsm that replicates what happens in the Amazon, where thousands of hectares of land are prey of illegal woodcutters, stock breeders and gold miners 3/10 Amazon rainforest Intensive logging makes rainforest fires more likely as the Earth warms Rex 4/10 Peru Miners known as "Maraqueros" ready a rustic type of hydraulic jet known locally as a "Chupadera," after hauling the device about 16-meters deep into a crater at a gold mine process in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. A new threat now looms for the estimated 20,000 wildcat miners who toil in huge scar of denuded rainforest known as La Pampa 5/10 Peru A rope hangs around the trunk of a tree at a illegal gold mining process in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. An estimated 20,000 miners toil in this malarial expanse of denuded rainforest known as La Pampa 6/10 Amazon rainforest The extent of the environmental damage in the Amazon rainforest afp/getty images 7/10 Indonesia Destruction remains from tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku in Riau Province, Sumatra. Norway entered a partnership with Indonesia to support Indonesia's efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests and peat lands. The business of pulp, palm oil and wood are causing the deforestation of Sumatra, the largest island owned by Indonesia, and is contributing global climate change to the extinction of many of the world's rare species 8/10 Malaysia An area that has been cleared of rainforest to make way for a palm oil plantation in Sabah, Malaysia CORBIS 9/10 Indonesia Regenerated palm oil trees are seen growing on the site of destroyed tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku GETTY IMAGES 10/10 Brazil Brazil launched the Amazon Fund, aimed at protecting the rainforest so vital to the world's climate, and at combating climate change. In December 2008 Brazil launched a national climate change plan which proposed to cut the country's deforestation rate in half by 2018 Getty Images 1/10 Borneo Destruction of the rainforest, deforestation in Borneo 2/10 Brazil Aerial view af an area devastated by clandestine gold mining in the Jamanxim National Forest, state of Para. With 1,3 million hectares, the Jamanxim National Forest is a microsm that replicates what happens in the Amazon, where thousands of hectares of land are prey of illegal woodcutters, stock breeders and gold miners 3/10 Amazon rainforest Intensive logging makes rainforest fires more likely as the Earth warms Rex 4/10 Peru Miners known as "Maraqueros" ready a rustic type of hydraulic jet known locally as a "Chupadera," after hauling the device about 16-meters deep into a crater at a gold mine process in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. A new threat now looms for the estimated 20,000 wildcat miners who toil in huge scar of denuded rainforest known as La Pampa 5/10 Peru A rope hangs around the trunk of a tree at a illegal gold mining process in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. An estimated 20,000 miners toil in this malarial expanse of denuded rainforest known as La Pampa 6/10 Amazon rainforest The extent of the environmental damage in the Amazon rainforest afp/getty images 7/10 Indonesia Destruction remains from tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku in Riau Province, Sumatra. Norway entered a partnership with Indonesia to support Indonesia's efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests and peat lands. The business of pulp, palm oil and wood are causing the deforestation of Sumatra, the largest island owned by Indonesia, and is contributing global climate change to the extinction of many of the world's rare species 8/10 Malaysia An area that has been cleared of rainforest to make way for a palm oil plantation in Sabah, Malaysia CORBIS 9/10 Indonesia Regenerated palm oil trees are seen growing on the site of destroyed tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku GETTY IMAGES 10/10 Brazil Brazil launched the Amazon Fund, aimed at protecting the rainforest so vital to the world's climate, and at combating climate change. In December 2008 Brazil launched a national climate change plan which proposed to cut the country's deforestation rate in half by 2018 Getty Images 
  
 In 2014 Norway made a joint declaration with Germany and the UK at a UN climate summit in New York, pledging to “promote national commitments that encourage deforestation-free supply chains, including through public procurement policies to sustainably source commodities such as palm oil, soy, beef and timber". 
  
 The production of beef, palm oil, soy and wood products in seven countries with high deforestation rates was responsible for 40 per cent of total tropical deforestation and 44 per cent of associated carbon emissions between 2000 and 2011, according to Climate Action. ||||| (CNN) Norway has become the first country to stop clear-cutting of trees, a huge step toward curbing global deforestation. 
  
 At the rate we are going, the world's rain forests could completely vanish in 100 years. 
  
 In their pledge last week, Norwegian lawmakers also committed to find a way to source essential products such as palm oil, soy, beef and timber so that they leave little to no impact on their ecosystems. It's a pledge Norway made at the U.N. Climate Summit in 2014, alongside Germany and the United Kingdom. 
  
 This move could be potentially transformative. 
  
 According to the United Nations, the production of palm oil, soy, beef and wood products contributed to a little less than half of total tropical deforestation. 
  
 Read More ||||| Norway is so woke to deforestation, it's the first nation to outlaw it. 
  
 On May 24, Norway committed to zero deforestation, reports UN partner Climate Action. The groundbreaking move means that the nation pledges to ban any product in its supply chain that contributes to the deforestation of rainforests through the government’s public procurement policy. 
  
 Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Virgin Amazon rain forest surrounds patches of deforested land prepared for the planting of soybeans. 
  
 “This is an important victory in the fight to protect the rainforest. Over the last few years, a number of companies have committed to cease the procurement of goods that can be linked to destruction of the rainforest,” Nils Hermann Ranum of Rainforest Foundation Norway said in a statement on the organization's site. “Until now, this has not been matched by similar commitments from governments. Thus, it is highly positive that the Norwegian state is now following suit and making the same demands when it comes to public procurements.” 
  
 The foundation has campaigned for years to make this a reality. 
  
 Rickey Rogers / Reuters Mato Grosso State in the Amazon jungle, one of the Brazilian states of greatest deforestation. 
  
 At the UN Climate Summit in New York in 2014, Norway, Germany and the U.K. pledged to “promote national commitments that encourage deforestation-free supply chains,” through public procurement policies and to sustainably source products like palm oil, soy, beef and timber. 
  
 According to Climate Action, production of palm oil, soy, beef and wood products in seven countries with high deforestation rates (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea) contributed to 40 percent of total tropical deforestation and 44 percent of associated carbon emissions between 2000 and 2011. 
  
 This is not Norway’s first anti-deforestation rodeo, either. 
  
 DEA / P. JACCOD via Getty Images Aerial view of Amazon rainforest in Amazonas State, Venezuela, |||||
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Norway just became the world's biggest tree-hugger. The Independent reports the European country is the first in the world to ban deforestation, following a pledge by its parliament. That means the Norwegian government won't purchase anything that contributes to the destruction of the world's rainforests, especially beef, timber, soy, and palm oil that come from questionable sources, reports the Huffington Post. Instead, Norway will buy them via "deforestation-free supply chains." The production of those four items in seven heavily deforested countries accounts for 40% of global rainforest deforestation, according to Climate Action. (The countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papau New Guinea.) The Rainforest Foundation Norway says the pledge is an "important victory" in the battle to preserve tropical forests and calls on other countries to follow suit. At the current rate of deforestation, the world's rainforests could be gone in a mere 100 years, CNN reports. Advocates say that clear-cutting rainforests not only destroys ecologically important trees, but releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when those trees are burned, contributing to climate change. (Eco-conscious Norway may also be banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles within the next decade.)