Weekly podcast: Get to grips with deforestation and land conversion impacts: a how-to guide

<p>This week: Leah Samberg, Rainforest Alliance's lead scientist, global policy, and lead on the Accountability Framework initiative, and Pete Garbutt, sustainability director, nature and climate, at McDonald’s, discuss just-released guidance developed by AFi in partnership with the Science Based Targets initiative and Green House Gas Protocol. They talk about how the guidance can support companies in aligned target setting, accounting and disclosure for deforestation, ecosystem conversion and land use change emissions. </p> <p>Plus: Chatham House urges the forest sector to prioritise establishing more resilient land and forest economies; seven German citizens suing the federal government over air pollution; and, EasyJet to halt all carbon credit use, in the news digest.</p> <p>And Innovation Forum's Emily Heslop gives an update on the future of plastics and packaging conference coming up on the 11th and 12th October in Amsterdam. Host: Ian Welsh</p> <p> </p> <p>The new  AFi, SBTi and GHG Protocol land use change guidance is available <a href='https://accountability-framework.org/deforestation-and-conversion-free-supply-chains-and-land-use-change-emissions-a-guide-to-aligning-corporate-targets-accounting-and-disclosure/'>here</a>.</p>