The recent suspension of Malaysian palm producer IOI by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) after satellite pictures showed it had been involved in deforestation has intensified the debate over the scrutiny of palm supply chains. Even the fast moving consumer goods companies that have been least proactive on this issue have begun to “take their heads out of the
Teresa Kok, Malaysia's Minister of Primary Industries, visited Brussels and other European capitals this week in a last-ditch effort to kill new EU rules that will ban the use of palm oil in ...
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Still, many foreign companies are moving ahead with individual promises to use only sustainable palm oil by 2015—Nestle, McDonald's and Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever among them. But the industry has far to go. Indeed, fewer than 50 percent of all companies are now certifiable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a coalition of ...
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A monoculture palm oil plantation. According to BusinessGreen.com, Bernard Dompok, Malaysia’s commodities minister, said the country’s plan to create its own sustainable palm oil certification scheme “is moving forward after the NGO and industry-backed RSPO reportedly accused Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Corp of violating its ...
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We declare to work together and support each other in transforming toward a 100% sustainable palm oil supply chain in Europe by 2020. Denmark France Germany Italy The Netherlands Norway United kingdom
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With specific reference to sustainable palm oil research, Hospes et al. (2017, p. 76) champion the value of such methodology, arguing that generating transdisciplinary knowledge not only “unravels simplified frames and black and white views on sustainable palm oil but also leads to new approaches and solutions.”
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As consumers become more aware of palm oil-related deforestation, a select few companies are leading the charge and making bold commitments to sustainable sourcing.
Get PriceA carbon balance over the whole industry would need to be constructed; • secondly, by presenting this important paper at PIPOC 2005, the oil palm industry would be seen moving ahead in its ...
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There are many soapmaking alternatives to using Palm Oil/PKO and great palm-free recipes out there, and we are currently testing more for you that are long lasting, hard and have copious bubbles. The road to truly sustainable and socially responsible palm oil is a long one, and we’re all in it together.
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Malaysia is to send a delegation to Europe by the end of February to present its newly adopted measures to make palm oil production sustainable, in a move that aims to circumvent a potential
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23-3-2017· What does sustainable palm oil cultivation look like? And how can consumers identify and support sustainable palm oil? Eco-Business explains. 1. What’s the issue with palm oil? In the palm oil industry’s early decades, companies freely cleared rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia
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Plantations certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fast-moving Kinabatangan River Mannan had managed to annoy those on both sides of the palm oil debate in Malaysia during his
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12-2-2002· Unilever sells shareholding in Malaysian palm oil estates to Palmco
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The Malaysian government said its sustainable palm oil certification standard MSPO launched this month on a voluntary basis initially did not vary wildly from the global voluntary Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification scheme.
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Carl Bek-Nielsen, who’s about to give a tour of the palm oil plantations he runs in Malaysia, is reflecting on a story by the New York Times earlier this
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Palm oil: is it practical to aim for total traceability? It may be a purely economic decision, but efforts to create 100% sustainable and traceable products have a positive social impact ManMohan
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2-3-2020· Its interest in sustainable palm oil from outside of the European Union was the palm oil conundrum points to difficult times ahead for EU What’s in the Malaysia Palm Oil Defense
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He also expressed hope that the UK would increase its palm oil import from Malaysia in line with the latter’s continuous commitment towards the full implementation of the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification by 2020 and other international regulations and standards.
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So, it is sustainable producers and the emerging paradigm for sustainable palm oil production that will be losing. And this means, in the end, the most likely losers of the proposed palm oil ban would be social conditions, forests, biodiversity, and the climate as most incentives for a sustainable palm oil
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Industry watchdog the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), published members’ land maps for peninsular Malaysia and the state of Sarawak on Thursday after being given legal go-ahead to do
Get PriceMalaysian palm oil producers are requesting that the government "stall all business dealings" with the European Union (EU) in light of the latter's push to curb usage of the commodity in biofuels. This is amid concerns over the EU's 'articulate' implementation of new restrictions on palm oil despite ongoing efforts by producers to adhere to guidelines on sustainable production, said Felcra Bhd
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Industrial oil palm plantations in South East Asia have caused significant biodiversity losses and perverse social outcomes. To address concerns over plantation practices and in an attempt to improve sustainability through market mechanisms, civil society organisations and industry representatives developed the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004.
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We declare to work together and support each other in transforming toward a 100% sustainable palm oil supply chain in Europe by 2020. Denmark France Germany Italy The Netherlands Norway United kingdom
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“Palm oil is four to 10 times more productive than other vegetable oils. So phasing out palm oil is not a sustainable solution. Replacing palm oil [with another commodity, such as coconut oil] would mean placing issues on other regions, on other communities, on other biodiverse areas, so that is definitely not the solution, " she continued.
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Moving away from Western-led sustainability. Chandran Nair, Malaysian founder of Hong Kong-based think tank Global Institute for Tomorrow, writes in his book The Sustainable State that the problem with today’s sustainable development narrative is that it is understood from the perspective of advanced economies rather than developing ones.
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Palm oil can be grown sustainably on non-forested land, but currently only around 14% of palm oil that is produced is Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) which certifies palm oil plantations to ensure they are deforestation-free . Oil is extracted from both the pulp and the kernel of the fruit. Palm oil is made by squeezing the palm kernels.
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JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR -- Asia's two dominant palm oil producers, Indonesia and Malaysia, may be heading for a clash with the European Union in international court over an EU clampdown on the fuel.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 — The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) expects the country’s palm oil stocks to finish the year at 2.1 million tonnes or at least remain at the current level of 2.25 million tonnes on continued demand for the edible oil
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Kuala Lumpur, 30 Oct In relation to the article published in the Star on 28 October 2017 concerning the European Parliament Resolution on Palm Oil and Deforestation of Rainforests, the European Union Delegation to Malaysia wishes to make the following clarifications: The European Parliament Resolution on palm oil
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A review on palm oil biodiesel as a source of renewable fuel. an organization to promote the growth and use of the sustainable palm oil . Malaysia needs to review the policy enforcement for is equally producing biodiesel with increased land usage. In the year 2006, Indonesia topped the production thus moving Malaysia
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Dunkin’ Brands also aimed to source 100% sustainably certified materials for direct palm oil purchases in the US market by Dec. 31, 2017. In the report it updated that 100% of the inputs for direct palm oil it purchased were claimed as RSPO certified (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
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Indonesia urged to follow 'game-changer' Malaysia on palm oil after being given legal go-ahead to do so by the Malaysian to only use sustainable palm oil as part of a green push
Get PriceMalaysian Palm Oil Council MPOC Europe, Brussels, Belgium. 2.1M likes. Promotes market expansion of Malaysian palm oil through image enhancement & creating awareness of techno
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The palm oil sector is currently facing a double whammy — softening prices in the wake of rising production and inventory, and concerted attack from West-based environmentalists for large-scale
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Cambridge University Press (2015) The Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit Zoological Society of London Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT): a toolkit that harnesses the power of investors and other stakeholders in the palm oil supply chain to increase uptake of best practice by oil palm
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At EPOC 2025 we discussed how sustainable palm oil can contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). We showed how the food industry is moving towards 100% sustainable
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Malaysia, the world's No.2 producer of palm oil, said on Thursday the European Union's decision to curb imports of the commodity could undermine France's hopes of winning one of Asia's biggest
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