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Investors, Major Brands Call for Stronger Palm Oil Standards
2015-06-02 17:14:00| Food Processing
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil criticized for gaps in enforcement.
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Malaysian state eyes 100% certified palm oil by 2025
2015-05-30 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Sabah, a state in Malaysian Borneo, is weighing a proposal to produce only palm oil certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an eco-certification initiative, by 2025. The move, if approved, would represent the first time a sub-national or state entity has committed to 100% certified palm oil production. Sabah currently produces 12 percent of the world's palm oil, making it one of biggest global players. Production comes from a wide range of actors, from smallholders to some...
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Indonesia: This palm oil company just bulldoze rainforest
2015-05-22 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In the last two years, a series of companies have made bold commitments to halt deforestation in their supply chains (see this story for the context). But producing products like palm oil without clearing ecologically important rainforest isn`t easy: It`s much easier to get rich quick by exploiting natural resources. Though most companies have agreed to rein in their operations, forests are still being razed. Here, courtesy of a video from activist group Forest Heroes, you can see the results...
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Primary rainforest cleared massive palm oil plantations in Peru
2015-05-20 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Two palm oil plantations have recently been established in Peru, supplanting primary forest. Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of the massive development, which is led by a group of companies tied to plantation entrepreneur and United Cacao CEO Dennis Melka. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Investigation Agency. More than 9,400 hectares of closed-canopy Amazonian rainforest has been removed for two oil palm plantations in the Peruvian region of Ucayali since 2011, according to scientists...
VICE 'Indonesia's Palm Bomb' tragic view palm oil driven deforestation
2015-05-20 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: For the sixth episode of its third season, HBOs Emmy-winning news series, VICE, focused its lens on Indonesias palm oil industry. The episode, entitled, Indonesias Palm Bomb, follows VICE correspondent, Ben Anderson, as he investigates the environmental and social impact of widespread (and, at times, illegal) deforestation on wildlife and indigenous communities in Sumatra. In a recent interview with Mongabay.com, Ben Anderson describes his firsthand experience witnessing slash-and-burn forest...
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