The RSPO has since become the standard bearer for sustainable palm oil production. The consortium set up a system to begin certifying plantations in 2008, and today at least 3.2 million hectares of oil palm are RSPO-certified, equating to roughly 20% of the global output of palm oil (RSPO, 2025a). The RSPO is the largest certifier of ...
For the last 6 years, POI have contacted thousands of brands about their ingredients and palm oil use. During this time, every singe brand we have made contact with, or consumers have contacted, all get a response stating they are using RSPO certified palm oil.
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Oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis) is a tropical palm plant which is native to Africa. In less than 100 years, the cultivation of oil palm trees has evolved from being a relatively small-scale crop in Africa to one of the world׳s most profitable agricultural commodities. Oil palm trees can grow well in Malaysian climate.
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Press releases Members contributions Support MSPO certification for members Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues, eg. trade workshops, industry associations Awareness of RSPO in the market,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market Not applicable. 8-0159-15-000-00 BSI Group Assurance Limited Certification Body for conducting RSPO P&C and RSPO Supply Chain ...
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Can Oil Palm Plantations and Orangutans Coexist? Companies are partnering with environmental groups to aid the red apes, but results are elusive
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Summary Before our lives were simple, not rich, but enough. Since oil palm came there is more suffering. I can’t feed my family. I have a baby. I must put food on the table every day. How do I ...
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In 2015 : we achieved the goal of using 100% RSPO certified palm oil (the little quantities of conventionnal palm oil declared result from an administrative artefact and a delay in updating our specifications ; the products were in fact already containing at least Book and Claim palm oil). In 2016 : we already use 100% RSPO certified palm oil ...
Get PriceIntroduction. Currently, palm oil is a significant issue in Indonesia’s diplomacy—one that the country’s presidents have taken seriously. In a press conference before his last trip abroad to New York, President Yudhoyono pledged to “ensure that there is no barrier against Indonesian products abroad” (“Hari Ini Presiden SBY,” 2014).Here, “Indonesian products” refer ...
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Globally, most of the palm oil production is located in Southeast Asia and particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia. The two countries accounted for 85.4% of global production in 2014 and for 86.0% of palm oil exports in 2013 (FAO 2017). 1 In fact, the huge increase in palm oil production globally has been spearheaded by the oil palm expansion and yield increases in the two countries.
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Palm Oil why using RSPO registered palm oil matters a Vectair blog. 25th Apr 2025 cwm Blog. There has been lots of negative press of late surrounding deforestation, more especially the plight of the orangutan which is on the brink of extinction.
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Currently only one customer is interested in buyong RSPO palm oil. ED&F Man, with its traders Licenses, is ready to deliver today ED&F Man commercial staff expects customers to pick up on the RSPO palm oil, even though most customers today are not yet committed. ED&F Man, with its traders Licenses is ready to deliver today
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The implementation of GAP is further strengthened with the introduction of the MPOB Codes of Practice (CoP) for the palm oil supply chain to help raise oil palm yield and to assure quality.
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27-10-2017· As one of the world’s largest palm oil end users, we’re committed to ensuring our ingredients don’t come at the expense of the environment or people. That’s why we have been working with specialist partners to drive sustainable palm oil in North Sumatra, Indonesia one of the country’s most productive areas for the crop.
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Palm oil is cheap and has a wide range of applications which has made it a very popular choice by manufacturers and retailers. But why is palm oil considered 'evil'? Palm oil is grown in the tropics, and clearing for plantations has destroyed vast swathes of rich, green rainforest.
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Palm Oil Investigations has officially teamed up with The Orangutan Project to lead the resistance in the battle for our environment. We want you to be part of the movement that includes hundreds of passionate people from around the globe on a mission to save the rainforest.
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In 2015 : we achieved the goal of using 100% RSPO certified palm oil (the little quantities of conventionnal palm oil declared result from an administrative artefact and a delay in updating our specifications ; the products were in fact already containing at least Book and Claim palm oil).
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The British food retailer Iceland said it plans to cut the use of palm oil in its own brand label foods by the end of 2025. The UK supermarket is taking the action in an attempt to help stop the
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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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A single palm oil plantation can destroy the forests, watersheds, and forest resources of thousands of Indonesians, leaving entire forest communities to face poverty, many for the first time.[6] Palm oil causes climate change. Rainforests are the earth’s largest sinks of carbon, safely storing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change
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Palm oil is used in food, cosmetics, cleaning products and biofuel, and only grows in the biodiversity-rich tropics. Palm oil is important for global food security and economic development. Palm oil production increased 15-fold between 1980 and 2014 and will likely increase further.
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Food security, the palm oil-land conflict nexus, and sustainability: A governance role for a private multi-stakeholder regime like the RSPO?
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Can Oil Palm Plantations and Orangutans Coexist? Companies are partnering with environmental groups to aid the red apes, but results are elusive
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25 Sustainable Development of Palm Oil Industry. the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), is normally treated in large open ponds; facultative digestion of the organic matter results in the release of methane gas with a global warming potential of 21 times that of carbon dioxide.
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Getting the facts right. Oil palm is, by far, the most widely-used and most productive oil crop in the world. If produced and sourced sustainably, palm oil can play an important role in providing for the growing global demand for vegetable oil.
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Our operations consist of the plantation business which covers Malaysia and Indonesia, while our downstream resource-based manufacturing business includes refining of palm oil as well as manufacturing of oleochemical and specialty oils and fats, which has a
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Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labour 30 November 2016, 16:40 UTC. Unilever, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble among nine household names contributing to labour abuse. There is nothing sustainable about palm oil that is produced using child labour and forced labour.
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Certification, labelling and traceability of palm oil: Can we build confidence from trustworthy standards? November around 19% of the worldwide traded palm oil was certified by the RSPO
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Tropical oils, such as palm and coconut oils, come from plants but have a very different nutritional profile from other plant-based fats. Palm oil is pressed from the flesh and kernel of the palm oil tree fruit and is produced at a rate of 47 million tons per year.
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6-3-2020· Summary Before our lives were simple, not rich, but enough. Since oil palm came there is more suffering. I can’t feed my family. I have a baby. I must put food on the table every day. How do I
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Paris, 26 June 2025 (IUCN) Banning palm oil would most likely increase the production of other oil crops to meet demand for oil, displacing rather than halting the significant global biodiversity losses caused by palm oil, warned an IUCN report published today.
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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. Grown only in the tropics, the oil palm tree produces high-quality oil used primarily for cooking in developing countries.
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All palm and palm kernel oil used in our products should be derived from sustainably cultivated sources in line with the RSPO’s Mass Balance model in 2020. Full traceability: We aim to be able to trace the palm oil, palm kernel oil and derivatives we buy to known sources
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Sabah & Sarawak news (update 10): Plantation company link to Miri murder of activist Bill Kayong. Sabah pledges RSPO, 3D forest mapping by Lidar, 90 meter tree, Palm oil a matter of national security for Malaysia opinion. Bunge palm oil supplier plans to clear peatlands for plantations by Rhett A. Butler June 22,
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Palm oil is the world’s most popular vegetable oil, used in about half of the products on supermarket shelves. In tropical environments, it grows easily and is more efficient than soy, canola, and other plants. The bad news: Its popularity has spurred the rapid and uncontrolled expansion of palm oil plantations across the forests of Indonesia
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Palm oil, like all fats, is composed of fatty acids, esterified with glycerol.Palm oil has an especially high concentration of saturated fat, specifically the 16-carbon saturated fatty acid, palmitic acid, to which it gives its name.Monounsaturated oleic acid is also a major constituent of palm oil. Unrefined palm oil is a significant source of tocotrienol, part of the vitamin E family.
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While many palm oil buyers are taking the right actions on palm oil, some have failed to keep their promises to consumers or are still doing nothing at all to help reduce deforestation and other adverse impacts of producing the world’s most popular vegetable oil in some of the most vulnerable tropical habitats around the world.
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21-4-2008· As the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world, Unilever has a special responsibility to help clean up the industry that's behind so much forest destruction.
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Woodland Park Zoo is a voting member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a non-profit focused on transforming markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm. RSPO unites stakeholders from the seven sectors of the palm oil industry: oil palm producers, processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks/investors, and
Get PriceForest Peoples Programme. Working with forest peoples to secure their rights. Our human rights work. Lands, Forests Large scale bribery and illegal land-use violations alleged on large parts of Golden Agri Resources palm oil plantations. Press release. FPP is registered as
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