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FDF launches new guide for sustainable palm oil sourcing
2014-12-19 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has launched a new guide for food and drink manufacturers to encourage them to use sustainably produced palm oil.
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Indonesia: Report highlights link between palm oil and illegal logging
2014-12-18 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian Correspondent: Palm oil that nearly ubiquitous ingredient found in processed foods, hygiene products and cosmetics fuels air and water pollution, climate change, extinction and human rights violations. A multi-billion-dollar industry, big palm has the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia, where around 80% of the worlds palm oil is produced, in its pocket. This means there has been little enforcement of laws that protect the environment and people from a destructive sector that is both incredibly powerful...
Palm oil facilitates large-scale illegal logging in Indonesia
2014-12-16 06:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Development of oil palm plantations is providing cover for large-scale illegal logging in Indonesian Borneo, driving destruction of some of the island's most biodiverse forests and undermining efforts to reform the country's forestry sector, alleges a new report published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The report, titled Permitting Crime: How palm oil expansion drives illegal logging in Indonesia, includes several case studies showing links between illegal practices and local...
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Indonesias new president promises to put peat before palm oil
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Last week, Indonesia`s new president, Joko Widodo, ordered the country's Ministry of Environment and Forestry to review the licenses of all companies that have converted peatlands to oil palm plantations. If the ministry follows through, this will be one of the most important actions the Indonesian government can take to begin truly reining in the destruction reaped by the palm oil industry there - and to address the severe climate impacts of peatland destruction."The best thing to do is to give...
Last holdout among big palm oil producers joins no-deforestation pledge
2014-12-05 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Singapore-based palm-oil business Musim Mas announced Thursday that it will make sure that the oil it purchases hasn`t been harvested in ways that cause deforestation. Musim Mas handles about 18 percent of the world`s palm oil. It was the last of the big palm oil companies that hadn`t agreed to fight against land clearing and human rights abuses. The announcement comes one year after Wilmar International, the biggest player in the palm-oil game, agreed to take a stand on the issue. Since then,...
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