In 2003, some 200 commercial entities in the global palm oil supply chain met and established the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to promote the growth of palm oil in an environmentally ...
If the answer is yes, you should know that this inadvertent overconsumption of single-use plastic carries with it a very high cost to the environment, which in turn also negatively affects our health. How? Well, let’s have a look at the most important reasons why single-use plastic bags should be banned right now.
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The world’s most popular vegetable oil—palm oil—is produced in tropical rain forests everywhere. While it can be produced sustainably, palm oil made with conventional production methods can lead to unchecked agricultural expansion that threatens forests and wildlife.
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How Does Deforestation Affect Orangutans? ... the total land area planted with oil palm in Indonesia has grown some 30-fold to over three million hectares, while in Malaysia, oil palm agriculture ...
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Aerial view of sections of rainforest felled for small-scale oil palm in Sumatra, Indonesia. (Photo by R. Butler) Atmospheric Role of Forests: Rainforests and Climate Change. Rainforests play the important role of locking up atmospheric carbon in their vegetation via photosynthesis.
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It is the misuse and improper disposal of plastic bags that is causing harm to the environment, not the product itself. A total ban on plastic bags will only gloss over the lack of an effective environmental management policy in a given country. It will not save the environment from the ill-effects of a 'throw-away' mentality.
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For the most part, human activity is to blame for deforestation, though natural disasters do play a role. So let's take a look at how and why humans deforest areas. Logging, or cutting down trees in a forest to harvest timber for wood, products or fuel, is a primary driver of deforestation. Logging affects the environment in several ways.
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The production of palm oils has not only caused the loss of “just under 150,000 Bornean orangutans…between 1999 and 2015- roughly half the population”, but is also a major contribution in the drastic loss of tropical rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia (Gibbens, 2025; Carot, Besson, & Arthus-Bertrand, 2009).
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Control can be made by the companies. In 2025 the biggest palm oil traider, Wilmar, decided to control his suppliers for avoid deforestation. This is an important precedent. Payments for conserving forests. In Bolivia, deforestation in upper river basins has caused environmental problems, including soil erosion and declining water quality.
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Giving Up Palm Oil Might Actually Be Bad for the Environment The trouble with the maligned crop isn’t its popularity, but where it’s planted Palm oil is extracted from the fruit of oil palm trees.
Get PricePalm oil, produced from the oil palm, is a basic source of income for many farmers in South East Asia, Central and West Africa, and Central America.It is locally used as cooking oil, exported for use in much commercial food and personal care products and is converted into biofuel. It produces up to 10 times more oil per unit area than soybeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.
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Why is palm oil bad for rainforests? By Rhett A. Butler April 1, 2025 Read more. Certain types of palm trees produce large red fruit which are rich with oil. After refining, this oil, known as palm oil, can be used to produce all sorts of products, including oils used in foods like chocolates and cookies, cosmetics like makeup, and even
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Why is Palm Oil a Problem? Palm oil has become one of the world’s leading causes of rainforest destruction. Unchecked expansion has pushed palm oil plantations into the heart of some of the world’s most culturally and biologically diverse ecosystems and palm oil is among the biggest threats driving iconic wildlife species like the Sumatran orangutan to the brink of extinction in Indonesia.
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How did palm oil become such a problem — and what can we do about it? Production of this ubiquitous ingredient is devastating for the environment. Solutions are complex, but they are out there.
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2015-08-13· We should demand that all manufacturers using palm oil must use only certified sustainable and deforestation-free palm oil in their products. To find the commitment status of many major brands to the use of sustainable palm oil, the Union of Concerned Scientists has published an online scorecard.
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The makers of Oreo, Mondelez, still buys its palm oil from the world’s largest and dirtiest palm oil trader in the world: Wilmar. Its palm oil is associated to several of the suppliers linked to forest destruction and human right abuses in Indonesia. Italy, Japan, France, Indonesia, you name it! The world is waking up to the fact that there
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2015-10-23· Is Indonesia's fire crisis connected to the palm oil in our snack food? Lindsey Allen The widespread burning of tropical rainforests and peatlands to develop palm oil plantations is one of the
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Palm oil is the most widely traded vegetable oil globally, with demand projected to increase substantially in the future. Almost all oil palm grows in areas that were once tropical moist forests, some of them quite recently. The conversion to date, and future expansion, threatens biodiversity and increases greenhouse gas emissions. Today, consumer pressure is pushing companies toward
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2025-05-21· JAKARTA — Environmental activists in Indonesia have denounced a recent call by the government to keep data about oil palm plantations out of the public’s reach.
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Indonesia Indonesia’s palm oil frontier is on the island of New Guinea; forests and peatlands on Borneo and Sumatra already have been logged extensively and burned to make way for oil palm
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A new IUCN report shows that while palm oil leads to deforestation and biodiversity losses, replacing it with other types of vegetable oils might be even worse for the environment.
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The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil started certifying palm oil that met environmental standards 10 years ago, but many of its members continued to cut down forests. Last summer’s promises to
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Economical and versatile, palm oil has become the world's most widely used vegetable oil. However, its production comes at a heavy environmental cost, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, the two main producers. Efforts to make its production more sustainable still have a long way to go.
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What is palm oil and is it bad for the environment? Since Iceland released it's Christmas advert people have been asking about palm oil. But what is it and which products contain palm oil?
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Oil palm, the source of palm oil, yields substantially more oil per hectare than most competing crops. This lowers oil production costs, which means food production is also cheaper and, ultimately, food is more affordable. There are other reasons why palm oil is a food industry favourite. It has properties that favour food processing: for
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Environment Palm oil: Too much of a good thing? Palm oil can be used in everything from cosmetics to fuel, and is cheap and efficient to produce.
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2015-04-29· Studying in an International Course (It's in English language in Italy so it's kind of a big deal here) I have many class mates around the world. One of my good friends who is from Indonesia and has studied in my country too recently spoke to me about the Palm Oil. We were hanging out
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This may well be driven by proximity to major problem areas e.g. Australia is close to Indonesia where the palm oil industry is flourishing and devastating the natural environment. For those who have been following along, the concept of “palm oil free” flared up a few years ago and then seemed to die off.
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Palm oil, produced from the oil palm, is a basic source of income for many farmers in South East Asia, Central and West Africa, and Central America.It is locally used as cooking oil, exported for use in much commercial food and personal care products and is converted into biofuel. It produces up to 10 times more oil per unit area than soybeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.
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2013-10-28· The impact of the palm oil industry on the environment is currently somewhat misunderstood. Some sources have claimed that palm oil cultivation leads to harmful deforestation and other negative
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2016-04-25· Every day, more and more of the rainforest is being destroyed on Sumatra mainly for palmoil plantations! Who pays the price? The orangutans. They loose their homes and often their lives. Why
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More than 50% of palm oil coming into Europe (but not the UK) is for biofuel. 2. Palm oil is a major cause of forest destruction. The palm oil industry has been a disaster for the world’s forests, wildlife and climate. Palm oil is mostly grown in Indonesia and Malaysia, two tropical countries with large areas of rainforest home to tigers
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The enemies of palm oil are turning to another issue to put palm oil in a bad light. Consumers of palm oil have been warned of palm oil’s negative environmental impact. Palm oil has recently been painted as a bad boy in the global fight to mitigate global warming. The focus by enemies of palm oil is on deforestation. They have resorted to
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2014-06-30· From 2000 to 2013, Indonesia's land used for oil palm cultivation more than tripled. About 35 percent of Indonesian Borneo's unprotected lowlands may be cleared for oil palm in coming years
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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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