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Palm Oil: Impact of climate change
2014-12-22 07:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Albany Times Union: You may have never heard of palm oil -- let alone thought about the role it played in your investment portfolio. But palm oil is fast becoming a ubiquitous ingredient, already present in half the goods we buy, from toothpaste to body wash, lipstick to detergent, cooking oil to ice cream and coffee to chocolate. Because it is free of trans fats, inexpensive and uses less acreage to grow than some alternatives, demand for palm oil has increased dramatically in the last decade and with it, so have...
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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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,...
Protest over - palm oil' threatens launch of lower-calorie cola
2014-11-22 08:51:33| Beverages - Topix.net
An online protest over the use of palm oil by Frito-Lay is threatening to undermine the launch of a new reduced-calorie cola by its sister brand, Pepsi, which uses no palm oil. PepsiCo Inc., the parent company of both Plano-based Frito-Lay and Pepsi, launched its new Stevia-sweetened cola, called Pepsi True, exclusively on Amazon.com Oct. 13. a substantial amount of research and testing.
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