Palm oil-based biofuels will no longer be permitted in Norway, the nation’s parliament announced last week. The move, which aims to thwart the destruction of Indonesian rainforests razed for palm oil plantations, makes Norway the first country to enforce such a ruling.

Norway’s biofuel industry will have until 2020 to phase out the oil. But palm oil isn’t just found in biofuel; it is also used in a range of food and personal care items from pastries and peanut butter spreads to shampoos and soaps. Those items will still be permitted. The EU is also working toward a 2030 deadline to phase out products using palm oil. And other countries are expected to follow Norway’s lead on palm oil.

“The Norwegian parliament’s decision sets an important example to other countries and demonstrates the need for serious reform of the world’s palm oil industry,” Nils Hermann Ranum of Rainforest Foundation Norway said in a statement.

The rainforests in Indonesia, and specifically in the Bornean forests, are being destroyed for the production of palm oil. Borneo is the only region where endangered orangutans are found in the wild and their numbers are rapidly declining as forests are burned so palm plantations can take their place. 

Norway’s decision to remove palm oil from its biofuel industry came after years of discussion and a vote last year to stop the government from purchasing palm-based biofuel (the government moved instead to a voluntary removal system).

The ruling last Monday garnered a majority vote by parliament; it was more comprehensive than previous legislation, too, now extending to the country’s entire fuel market, urging the government to “formulate a comprehensive proposal for policies and taxes in the biofuels policy in order to exclude biofuels with high deforestation risk.”