Your afternoon chocolate bar may be fuelling climate change, destroying protected forests and threatening elephants, chimpanzees and hippos in West Africa, research suggests. Both companies have committed to join the Cocoa and Forests Initiative, a major effort to end deforestation in the global cocoa supply chain, launched in March. Ivory Coast, Francophone West Africa's biggest economy, is the world's top cocoa grower. Deforestation for cocoa happens in sight of authorities and chocolate traders are aware of it, they said. Details of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative, which is initially focusing on Ivory Coast and Ghana, will be announced by November's global climate talks in Bonn.

Source: The Star September 14, 2017 16:30 UTC