Similarly, Rapeseed imports are forecasted at 4.70 million tonnes next year, in part due to
environmental conditions, market trends, and
external pressure.
While local environmentalists have been pushing the government to adopt greener policies for years (with limited success), the government's newfound enthusiasm for climate change policies is apparently the result of
external pressure, namely the Copenhagen summit and the
environmental requirements of the OECD, which Israel seeks to join.