The French Parliament has voted to get rid of tax breaks for the use of palm oil as a biofuel. This is despite the Government's proposal to delay, until 2026, the ending of these tax advantages, which would have given oil companies more time to remove palm oil from their biofuels. It has been widely claimed that palm oil increases deforestation ...
“We commend The Consumer Goods Forum for their pledge to help achieve net zero deforestation by 2020. We’re proud to partner with these companies, who recognise that taking action to prevent tropical deforestation is not only a critical part of protecting our climate and our ecosystems, but is simply good for business”.
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The report Driving Deforestation: The Impact of Expanding Palm Oil Demand through Biofuel Policy looks at the current demand and potential 2030 demand for palm oil from biofuel policies in key countries and in the aviation industry. It presents low, medium and high scenarios for the role of 2030 biofuel production in increasing demand for palm oil.
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Climate Policy Initiative in the News. Press release: Investor initiative chooses ideas that will mobilize investment for sustainable cities, energy access, blue carbon, and sustainable agriculture in developing countries
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Farm and food sustainability are important pieces of the climate-change puzzle, but at the moment, climate-sustainable diets are not on the menu. In the developing world, some 821 million people currently suffer from hunger. Meanwhile, rich countries waste enough food every year to feed 750 million people.
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PRESS RELEASE - In September 2014, UC Davis and Mars, Incorporated, agreed to a partnership that created the Innovation Institute for Food and Health, managed through the UC Davis World Food Center. In January this collaboration was officially launched.Bruce German, a food science and technology professor as well as the facilitator of the development of the Innovation Institute for Food and ...
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100% palm oil purchased in Malaysia and Indonesia, certified in compliance with the RSPO scheme. Barilla is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, like all its suppliers, among which the main is Unigrà. Commits not to purchase palm oil from producers responsible for fires and deforestation. Italy: the cooperation with Italy’s main
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But that was some time ago. Decades of overfishing and rampant use of fish bombs, poison, and trawls, combined with the rapid conversion of land into oil palm plantations in neighbouring villages, had severely depleted crab, shrimp and fish stocks in the area, resulting in dwindling catch and declining incomes for local residents.
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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
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2016 Food and Nutrition Sustainability Index. Developed by . MORE INFORMATION
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All the BCFN Foundation Alumni, their stories, ideas and sustainability projects. The FSI looks across the food system and includes deforestation metrics under its sustainable agriculture pillar, It may start with an access road and the odd mining or palm oil concession here or there,
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26-3-2020· You might not cook with it, but you almost certainly eat or use palm oil. Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, found in many packaged products sold in the supermarket. While palm oil is the most efficient source of vegetable oil, its rapid expansion threatens some of the
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A review of the latest news, facts, commentaries on various insights on sustainable food systems PRESS REVIEW NOVEMBER 16/22, 2025. All the BCFN Foundation Alumni, their stories, ideas and sustainability It has been widely claimed that palm oil increases deforestation in tropical countries and contributes to the destruction
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It is also used in food products, detergents, cosmetics and, to a small extent, biofuel. Palm oil is a small ingredient in the U.S. diet, but more than half of all packaged products Americans consume contain palm oil—it’s found in lipstick, soaps, detergents and even ice cream. Palm oil
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How the Food Sustainability Index can foster policy dialogue and progress. Balancing priorities while creating sustainable diets. Honouring women on World Humanitarian Day. Palm oil and deforestation. Disease and food sustainability. A plan to save
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Environment Mass deforestation: How trade fells trees in Brazil and Indonesia. Hunger for beef, palm oil, soy and timber fuels rainforest clearance at enormous scales, especially in Brazil and
Get PriceAN INDEX ON FOOD AND SUSTAINABILITY: WHY? By the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation. The coexistence of hunger and obesity, the overexploitation of natural resources and the large amounts of food lost and wasted are the three food paradoxes identified by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN).
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Deforestation can happen quickly, such as when a fire sweeps through the landscape or the forest is clear-cut to make way for an oil palm plantation. While deforestation appears to be on the decline in
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Agribusiness—in which huge areas of forest are burned or cleared to make space for crops and livestock—is the number one driver of deforestation. These practices are turning some of the most biodiverse areas in the world into monocultures. Conflict Palm Oil. Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil
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They create a plantation, which requires deforestation of the orangutans’ habitat, and cultivate their crop throughout the year. Palm oil actually helped the indigenous people during the Asian Financial Crisis, which resulted in Malaysia and Indonesia accounting for ninety percent of global palm oil
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Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation/Orangutan After the FDA required labeling of trans fats in food products in 2006, palm oil imports into the U.S. increased which controls almost half of the world’s trade in palm oil, vowed to have no deforestation
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Palm oil’s very high reliance on smallholder production (c. 40% of global palm oil comes from small farmers) makes finding the right solutions to palm oil disputes as much a priority for human
Get PricePalm oil is now the world RBD *palm oil. Bakery fats, food-service A gregarious man with a devilish streak—he once joked at a press conference that rhinos were going extinct because
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And on 15 November, the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil the industry body that works towards sustainable palm oil production) incorporated ‘no deforestation’ into its new principles.
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It has already lost much of its tropical forest, with more at risk from illegal logging and poor agricultural practices. To protect against further losses, the Malaysian government wants to see all palm oil producers in the state achieve certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
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This year, the fires returned and roughly three-quarters of the fires linked to palm oil companies were on RSPO members’ land. This means that so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil growers are in some cases at the forefront of Indonesia’s environmental crisis. 5. Brands have broken their promise to end deforestation for palm oil
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Clichy, 14 June 2016 L’Oréal unveils its first Palm Oil Progress report highlighting the latest results and innovations implemented for 100% responsible sourcing of palm oil and palm oil derivatives. L’Oréal uses less than 400 tons of palm oil per year but purchases derivatives in a quantity equivalent to 60,000 tons of palm oil.
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This year, the fires returned and roughly three-quarters of the fires linked to palm oil companies were on RSPO members’ land. This means that so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil growers are in some cases at the forefront of Indonesia’s environmental crisis. 5. Brands have broken their promise to end deforestation for palm oil
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The RSPO is under pressure to meet recent pledges by corporations and oil palm-importing countries to source only deforestation, and peat-free, palm oil . To enable compliance with such procurement policies, the RSPO would need to develop a clear definition of “deforestation
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There are many planet-friendly alternatives to palm oil ridden products, you just need to know where to find them. Here are a few tips you can use to avoid palm oil in your life.
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The company's pledge didn't impress the coalition. Its letter points out that "'a stronger focus' falls well short of the industry standard of a strict 'No Deforestation, No Peat and No Exploitation' palm oil sourcing policy and time-bound implementation plan." Other fast food
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Emma Keller, our palm oil expert and head of food, introduces an app that can help you to shop sustainably. As most of us already know, the simple choices we make every day, like through our food
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Type to search Press enter or click on stated that the areas most vulnerable to deforestation are those in Indonesia 100 per cent of our own brand food will contain no palm oil.
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Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa. The use of palm oil in food
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Oil palm would then Allocated oil palm leases represent a critical yet undocumented source of deforestation and NNX07AK37H), John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Santa Fe
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We are well aware that alternatives use more land to produce the same volume of vegetable oil, which is why we have taken care to establish the provenance of all the palm oil replacements we are using in our Iceland own label products. The problem is that, precisely because it is such a useful product, demand for palm oil
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In fact, agroforestry is much more than the adjacency of agricultural crops and trees. It also includes trees on farms, farming in forests and along forest margins, and tree commodities (such as timber and plantations for tea, coffee, cocoa, oil palm
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