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The history of contentious number behind zero deforestation commitments for palm oil
2014-07-15 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It was just after lunch, Monday, November 8th 2010 when it all began. At the time, it was innocent enough; there were certainly no ill intentions. Yet, looking back, I now see it as the moment that kicked off the polarizing debate that today splits the palm oil industry and that drowns out much needed sensible discussion around how forest protection and palm oil expansion might go hand in hand. The debate, with all its spin and tension, has become the focus rather than that more important, bigger...
Precision Specialties Acquires Palm Labs Adhesives
2014-07-15 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Roger Szafranski, President of Precision Specialties, has acquired Palm Labs Adhesives LLC, a technology based company which develops, manufactures and markets a broad line of specialty adhesives and sealants.<br /> <br /> Palm Labs Adhesives was established in 1998. It has a technology center in Hilton Head, South Carolina and a manufacturing operation in Debary, Florida. Our customers will continue to be rewarded with significant cost savings and additional solutions for their assembly ...This story is related to the following:Industrial Adhesives
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More West Palm Beach land bought by All Aboard Florida
2014-07-14 13:06:34| Railroads - Topix.net
All Aboard Florida bought the eastern portion of this land owned by FP&L, which will maintain its substation on the land it still owns to the west.
New palm oil sustainability manifesto met with criticism from environmentalists
2014-07-11 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: This week several palm oil giants - Sime Darby Plantation, Musim Mas Group, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK), IOI Group Corporation Bhd, Cargill and Asian Agri/APICAL - announced new environmental criteria for palm oil production. The companies, which have long been targeted by campaigners for forest destruction and social conflict, say the initiative goes beyond the industry-leading standard set by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), but two prominent environmental groups quickly disagreed,...
Indonesia is killing the planet for palm oil
2014-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Indonesia is being deforested faster than any other country in the world, and it has everything to do with one product: palm oil. According to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, deforestation in the Southeast Asian archipelago is nearly double the rate in the Amazon. Indonesia is said to have lost 840,000 hectares (3,250 square miles) of forest in 2012 while Brazil -- which has four times Indonesias rainforest -- lost a still-massive 460,000 hectares. The reports authors found...
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