This has led consumers and NGOs to pressure palm oil firms to clean up their act, while others have suggested boycotting products which contain the substance. Is boycotting palm oil the solution? Or can the palm oil industry—which is expected to be worth US$88 billion by 2025 — grow without taking a further toll on fragile ecosystems? What ...
Even though Unilever is one of the world’s biggest buyers of palm oil, we form just a small part of a vast and complex global industry. A 100% sustainable palm oil industry, which meets growing global demand while simultaneously protecting the planet and people’s livelihoods and human rights, can only ever come about through cooperation and ...
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“We welcome the research conducted by NGOs in highlighting to consumers some of the complex sustainability issues facing the palm oil industry. We continue to engage and support the RSPO, which remains the only industry standard which is widely accepted by stakeholders in the palm oil value chain. Whereas we appreciate the RSPO needs to be ...
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Today, Cadamosto’s description is probably the last one to come to mind if one is asked to size up the palm oil industry. Instead, if anyone thinks of it at all, palm oil is more likely to be associated with the mundane—hand soap, ice cream, and margarines—or the tragic—deforestation and labor abuses.
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“Shell has launched an invasion of children’s playrooms in order to prop up its public image, while threatening the Arctic with a deadly oil spill. We can’t let Shell get away with it ...
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The global debate on the sustainability and legitimacy of palm oil production is one that continues to evolve and define the industry. As Indonesia and Malaysia are the two major palm oil producing nations, there is much discussion around the issues that palm oil plantations pose in the face of environmental sustainability, the local economy, and human rights.
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Speaking ahead of next month’s Sustainable Cosmetics Summit (SCS) in Paris , an event organised by Ecovia Intelligence, Amarjit Sahota responds to some of the crucial questions facing the industry regarding sustainability.. See part one below on the six top challenges in the industry. Part two, on next generation sustainability and sustainability reporting, is live here .
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Palm oil can be produced more sustainably and things can change. The Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil or RSPO was formed in 2004 in response to increasing concerns about the impacts palm oil was having on the environment and on society. The RSPO has a production standard that sets best practices producing and sourcing palm oil, and it has the buy-in of most of the global industry.
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Unsustainable Palm Oil Faces Increasing Market Access Risks: NDPE Sourcing Policies Cover 74 Percent of Southeast Asia’s Refining Capacity November 1, 2017Chain Reaction Research is a The palm oil industry’s transformation towards sustainability gained traction in 2013
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14 Jun 2017 --- Some of the largest global players in palm oil have teamed up with NGOs to save orangutans endangered because of habitat loss, forming a new alliance to help the animals and other wildlife in landscapes impacted by the ever-increasing industry. The group includes leaders in palm oil
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Palm Oil Industry Facing Up to Sustainability Issues Posted on 14/06/2017 07/11/2025 Some of the largest global players in palm oil have teamed up with NGOs to save orangutans endangered because of habitat loss, forming a new alliance to help the animals and other wildlife in landscapes impacted by the ever-increasing industry.
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Palm Oil Industry Facing Up to Sustainability Issues. 14 Jun 2017 — Some of the largest global players in palm oil have teamed up with NGOs to save orangutans endangered because of habitat loss, forming a new alliance to help the animals and other wildlife in landscapes impacted by the ever-increasing industry.
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23-3-2017· Is boycotting palm oil the solution? Or can the palm oil industry—which is expected to be worth US$88 billion by 2025 — grow without taking a further toll on fragile ecosystems? What does sustainable palm oil cultivation look like? And how can consumers identify and support sustainable palm oil? Eco-Business explains. 1.
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The industry’s ground-breaking national palm oil certification program tackles key issues including deforestation and workers’ rights. The Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification differentiates this country’s responsible palm oil from the competition. Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil.
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This document, Key Sustainability Issues in the Palm Oil Sector addresses the second stage of this process. This paper provides a general overview of the sector and the issues facing it, and seeks to help provides a framework for the upcoming discussions with a wide range of stakeholders.
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Palm oil can be produced more sustainably and things can change. The Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil or RSPO was formed in 2004 in response to increasing concerns about the impacts palm oil was having on the environment and on society. The RSPO has a production standard that sets best practices producing and sourcing palm oil, and it has the buy-in of most of the global industry.
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Here’s what we learned from our expert panel on ways to build a sustainable palm oil industry. Skip to you need to know about sustainable palm oil trust you to deal with these issues.
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Traceability -- knowing exactly where a batch of palm oil comes from -- remains one of the greatest challenges facing the industry. An estimated two-fifths of the world’s palm oil is grown by smallholders, small-time farmers whose land is often tucked away in remote areas where regulatory oversight is poor.
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11-3-2020· Related tags: Palm oil, deforestation Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are likely to require ‘several years’ of development before they are commercially viable, meaning emphasis should be placed in the ‘immediate’ drive to make existing production more sustainable. Links
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Sustainability Challenges in the Paper Industry. by ChEnected Guest. Oct 12, 2016; Comments (0) IfS. The paper industry doesn’t figure into the deforestation issue as prominently as the palm oil, soy, American companies who have a stake in the paper industry are lining up to support sustainability
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As producers of sustainable palm oil, Sime Darby Plantation understands this concern and believes that traceability in our supply chain is necessary to draw the line on deforestation. While we have developed our own traceability tool called Crosscheck, we know we cannot do it alone because change requires an industry-wide effort.
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Palm oil is the most cost-competitive and versatile vegetable oil, and makes up the largest portion of global vegetable oil Comply with the principles and criteria of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry-wide certification body that promotes the growth and use of sustainable palm real-time view of emerging issues.
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Asimetris: Palm oil has become one of the world's most ubiquitous resources it's in our food, fuel, and cosmetics to name but a few. Yet the palm oil industry is responsible for committing
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Chemicals are the building blocks for our modern world. They are essential components in many of the products we use today and in the technologies that drive us towards a more sustainable future. Sustainability and petrochemical industry are not antagonistic, on the contrary. At INEOS, sustainability is fundamental to how we do business.
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Sustainability. Beauty is about managing our business sustainably. Our long-term success depends on our ability to make conscious decisions to embed sustainable practices along our value chain. We are dedicated to understanding and managing our economic,
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As such a tiny player we took the decision that the only way we could create meaningful change was to shout very loudly from outside the established palm oil industry. So we decided simply to stop using palm oil until the industry cleaned up its act. It was our own decision to give consumers a choice where previously there was none.
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Chemicals are the building blocks for our modern world. They are essential components in many of the products we use today and in the technologies that drive us towards a more sustainable future. Sustainability and petrochemical industry are not antagonistic, on the contrary. At INEOS, sustainability is fundamental to how we do business.
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Sustainability. Beauty is about managing our business sustainably. Our long-term success depends on our ability to make conscious decisions to embed sustainable practices along our value chain. We are dedicated to understanding and managing our economic,
Get PriceTherefore, producing palm oil sustainably is important to all of us. AAK is committed to its role in supporting the move towards full sustainability in the palm oil industry. Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. However, palm oil production has raised serious concerns relating to deforestation and the elimination of endangered animals, to name two.
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This Earth Day we take a look at 6 of world's most pressing environmental issues, and a few of the ways most important steps we can take to save it.
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We are a not-for-profit that unites stakeholders from the 7 sectors of the palm oil industry: oil palm producers, processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks/investors, and environmental and social non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to develop and implement global standards for sustainable palm oil.
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The personal care products industry represents a small amount of global palm oil usage. While we at The Estée Lauder Companies are a comparatively low-volume user of palm oil, palm fruit oil, palm kernel oil (PKO) and PKO derivatives, we are sensitive to the issues and complexities surrounding its sustainable production and traceability.
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One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the HoB and Kalimantan is the growth of oil palm plantations in response to global demand for palm oil, the most important tropical vegetable oil in the global oils and fats industry. Within Indonesia, oil palm production expanded from 600,000 hectares in 1985 to over 6 million hectares by 2007.
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The following industry leaders illustrate what sustainability initiatives look like: Nike and Adidas have both stepped up seriously. Nike has focused on reducing waste and minimizing its footprint, whereas Adidas has created a greener supply chain and targeted specific issues
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The conference will explore these pressing issues facing the industry; How sustainable palm oil can help create opportunities for green and inclusive growth in producing countries, within the context of the SDGs. What’s working, what needs to change and how to scale up for success in European and emerging markets to meet 2020 commitments.
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In recent years the company has also been criticised for its use of child labour and palm oil, and for not labelling GM ingredients. This is a really interesting result. It shows that people still feel strongly about Nestlé even after so many years and despite it trying to greenwash its image by using Fairtrade chocolate in some of its products.
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