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Palm oil: who’s still trashing forests? Blogpost by Annisa Rahmawati - 3 March, 2016 at 3:451 comment; How 'clean' is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we're releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Take a look now to see who ...
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Palm oil: who’s still trashing forests? Blogpost by Annisa Rahmawati - 3 March, 2016 at 3:451 comment; How 'clean' is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we're releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Take a look now to see who ...
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Campaigns on supply-chains:Public art campaign aims at Sumatra’s palm oil industry, Campaigning matures with Mighty Earth, MEPs call for clampdown on unsustainable palm oil and use in biofuel NGO campaigns, advocacy, technical work for and deals with corporate supply-chains has been a key feature of the 2010s.
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1. Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS maintains a national network of nearly 17000 scientists who believe “rigorous analysis is the best way to understand the world’s pressing problems and develop effective solutions to them.” UCS’s findings and statements are frequently quoted by major news sources; they have become a recognized and respected voice of environmental advocacy.
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While some readers may see intense waves offering some benefit to their next surf holiday, there are much greater implications for our coastal and offshore environments. Flooding from rising sea levels could cost US$14 trillion worldwide annually by 2100 if we miss the target of 2℃ warming.
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Illegal dumping has become an increasingly large problem throughout the United States. Offenders often dump late at night to avoid the cost and inconvenience of proper waste disposal.
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The extra turbocharger on this trade is that the hedge fund community is still hugely long oil, betting an attack on Iran by Israel that never came. As we move into yearend, the pressure on them ...
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2016-03-03· The palm oil industry is still a leading cause of all this destruction. And what's even more frustrating is that palm oil can be produced responsibly . One amazing project we've been working with is a community in Dosan, Sumatra that is producing palm oil
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How ‘clean’ is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we’re releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Take a look now to see who’s keeping up and who’s lagging way behind. The biggest forest fires of
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2016-03-03· Palm oil: who’s still trashing forests? by Annisa Rahmawati 3 March 2016. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email. How ‘clean’ is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we’re releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Take a look now to see who’s keeping up
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Those four commodities are cattle products, palm oil, timber products, and soy. This article is crucial in providing companies involvement in deforestation and the risks that come from deforestation. Rahmawati, Annisa. “Palm oil: who’s still trashing forests?” Greenpeace. Last modified March 3, 2016.
Get PriceMore drastic measures face opposition from those within the administration who claim that a comprehensive ban on deforestation would hurt the vital palm oil industry. But last year’s fires cost
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Entrepreneurs and Companies Engaged in Ending Forest Deforestation Sustainability on a global scale initiated a discussion regarding the different commodities such as timber, cotton, copper, livestock, corn, recycling and many more and their impacts and roles in western and non-western countries such as their economies, environments, role of their governments, technology, and corporations.
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HSBC promises to cut ties with forest-trashing palm oil companies. There’s been a major breakthrough in protecting Indonesia’s forests: HSBC has committed to breaking its links to palm oil companies destroying forests and peatlands. This is a fantastic result for everyone who has been campaigning over the last few weeks, although the hard
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Palm oil used in almost anything you can imagine, from food to cleaning products and even in some cosmetic items. But the disgusting thing is that by the hour around 300 football fields of trees, of animals and of life are being bulldozed to make way for the environmental and humanitarian eyesores that we know as palm oil plantations.
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2012-06-21· Palm oil comes from the fruits of the palm oil trees. The problem isn’t the oil itself, but the plantations that are needed to process it. They’re located near the Palm oil trees which are in numerous forests and require a great amout of deforestation in order to be located there. When farmers illegally clear land to make way for palm oil plantations, they often end up destroying natural
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Posts about Forest for climate written by forestforclimate. We’ve arrived in Sungai Pakning, a small port on the coast of Riau in Sumatra, and the Esperanza is anchored in a wide, silty channel running between the mainland and two islands, Pulau Bengkalis and Pulau Padang.
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VanderLey would like to replace more of the piers. But the elephant in the room amid all the planning is cost and funding. Billions are required, and that kind of funding is hard to come by even when members of Congress are not arguing about whether climate change exists. READ MORE
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Deforestation: destruction and degradation of the rainforest. A Giant Mess on New Guinea. Freeport-McMoRan, based in New Orleans, has operated the Grasberg gold, silver, and copper mine in Indonesian New Guinea (formerly Irian Jaya), since 1972, converting Mount Ertsberg into a 600-meter hole.
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2013-05-27· Greenpeace and other groups accuse the giant pulp and palm companies of trashing tens of thousands of hectares of rainforest a year but the companies respond that they are the forest defenders and without them the ecological devastation would be worse. “There has been a rampant escalation of the denuding of the landscape but it is mostly by migrant labour and palm oil growers.
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2025-08-28· The rainforest fires that have been blazing out of control in Brazil for weeks could have far-reaching effects on our health, experts warn.
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2025-07-08· The technicalities of this act are still debated among experts, but in practice the result will be a ban of palm oil. The main producers of palm oil, Indonesia and Malaysia,were understandably
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2015-11-08· Palm oil can hide under any of its 220+ different monikers, which means many manufacturers don’t list it at. If you are buying food products, however, palm oil is a saturated fat, so if the ingredients boast no saturated fat, then that product is also palm-oil free. It’s a handy tip to keep in mind the next time you head off to the grocery
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Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world and in 2005 still had the largest area of forest removed annually. Since 1970, over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the rainforest have been destroyed. In 2012, the was approximately 5,400,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi), which is only 87% of the Amazon's original size.
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Greenpeace International. How Clean is Your Cloud? Section xxxx. Palm oil’s new frontier. greenpeace.org. Forests and people first. How industrial expansion threatens Africa’s rainforests
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Similar concerns have risen about the comparable Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) certification and “Green Palm” labels. Researchers have found that so-called “sustainable” palm oil is often still associated with the recent loss of rainforests and habitat degradation. In fact, both RSPO and POIG allow the clearing of forests as long as
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Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars. Cadbury is internationally headquartered in Uxbridge, west London, and operates in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Get PricePalm oil is usually processed from oil palm fruits and other parts of the oil palm plant are candidates for raw material of bioproduct generation. Oil palm biomass can be turned into three
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Another major issue plaguing the data today is whether monoculture plantations should be counted as forests. FAO says it does not include oil palm plantations or fruit tree monocultures under its definition of forests, but it does include pulp and paper plantations as well as replanting efforts that usually depend on a single species. And most
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RSPO press release PALM OIL CONCESSION MAPS OF RSPO MEMBERS TO BECOME PUBLICLY AVAILABLE KUALA LUMPUR, December 18, 2015: In response to the devastating land and forest fires affecting Indonesia every year, and in order to improve the monitoring and enforcement of its Principles & Criteria (P&C), the RSPO will publish its member's oil palm concession maps. This commitment
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Caribbean Forest Conservation Association (CFCA). 1.1K likes. The Caribbean Forest Conservation Association (CFCA) of Trinidad & Tobago is
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In a press statement, Mario Rautner, The Global Canopy Programme’s Drivers of Deforestation Programme Manager, emphasized that there is still much work to be done to meet the goal of getting
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Despite wanting to be seen as a climate leader, the UK government has continued to fall short of what’s needed to meet targets and has not yet prepared the country for the consequences of climate change. There’s still time for them to turn this around and there are clear things they can do but they need to take bold action now.
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Everywhere in the world, NGOs are calling for “zero deforestation” commitments to slow agricultural expansion on forests. At TFT we are supporting companies to make and implement those commitments in their supply chains, starting with understanding where they source their raw materials from, getting traceability and then trying to work with growers of palm plantations (among other crops
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1. Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS maintains a national network of nearly 17000 scientists who believe “rigorous analysis is the best way to understand the world’s pressing problems and develop effective solutions to them.” UCS’s findings and statements are frequently quoted by major news sources; they have become a recognized and respected voice of environmental advocacy.
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