Summary
Authors set out to study the impact of European demand-side restrictions on high-deforestation palm oil in Indonesia. To do this, they integrated a global trade model with a spatially explicit model of land-use change in Indonesia and modeled the impacts of a hypothetical European ban on high-deforestation palm oil from 2000 to 2015. They found that the ban resulted in 1.6% less deforestation and 1.9% less emissions from deforestation in Indonesia. Impacts on a European wide ban are minimal as imports of high-deforestation palm oil would have moved to non-participating countries.