je.st
news
Tag: palm oil
Malaysia palm oil giant says used as 'scapegoat' as green standards ramp up
2016-06-07 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: One of the world's largest palm oil producers, Malaysia's IOI Group, said it has been made the "scapegoat" of an industrial watchdog's increasingly muscular approach to ending slash-and-burn deforestation by major world players. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumers, green groups and plantation firms that aims to promote the use of sustainable palm oil products, withdrew the IOI Group's "sustainability certification" in March.. The move - which followed complaints...
Indonesias Salim Group linked to secret palm oil concessions in West Papua
2016-06-03 10:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One of Indonesias largest conglomerates, the Salim Group, has likely acquired four palm oil concessions in West Papua using a complex network of shared directorships and offshore companies, new research suggests. Online watchdog awas MIFEE reported in May it had uncovered evidence that the four plantations PT Rimbun Sawit Papua, PT Subur Karunia Raya, PT Bintuni Agro Prima Perkasa and PT Menara Wasior were under the Salim Groups control after discovering directorship and shareholding links...
Forest-destroying palm oil powers cars in EU
2016-06-01 15:08:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BangKok Post: Palm oil produced on tropical plantations that drive deforestation has become a major biofuel for vehicles in the European Union, industry figures released Tuesday by an environmental group revealed. Second only to rapeseed as a biofuel, overall palm oil use in EU countries jumped six-fold from 2010 to 2015, according to data obtained by Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment. In 2014, nearly half of the palm oil used in Europe wound up in the gas tanks of cars and trucks, according to...
Leaked figures show spike in palm oil use for biodiesel in Europe
2016-06-01 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leaked trade industry figures show a five-fold increase in the use of palm oil for biodiesel in Europe between 2010 and 2014, providing new evidence of links between deforestation in southeast Asia and the EUs renewable energy mandate. The leaked figures, which the Guardian has seen, show that 45% of palm oil used in Europe in 2014 went to biodiesel, up from 8% in 2010. Greenhouse gas emissions from biodiesel are more than three times higher than those from conventional diesel engines when...
How Palm Oil Has Changed Life for Sumatran Elephants What You Can Do
2016-05-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OneGreenPlanet: In the picture below, we witness two starkly different scenes, both occurring in the same land. In the image on top, two elephants share the day in their natural habitat. In the wild, life is good. Time is spent foraging and bonding with loved ones. Family is number one for elephants, as they live in matriarchal herds, with grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters, aunts, nieces, and cousins, all sharing each others company for decades. But those days of happiness and becoming rarer and rarer....
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] next »