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Palm oil shows need for socially aware research
2016-06-20 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: In recent weeks, I attended two events that prompted me to start inspecting the labels of cosmetics, detergents and packaged foods in my house. I was looking for evidence of palm oil products, in response to a staggering claim that half of what the average family buys has been touched in some way by palm oil -- everything, it seems, from chocolate and margarine to sauces and soaps. My search quickly turned up 'sustainable palm fruit oil' in some oatcakes and a palm oil derivative, ethylhexyl palmitate,...
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Palm oil giant's impact in Indonesia worse than reported, says Greenpeace
2016-06-09 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One of the worlds largest producers of palm oil has drained and planted on areas of peatland supposed to be protected by Indonesian law, claims a new report from Greenpeace, with levels of damage potentially worse than previously reported. The NGO says satellite images of Ketapang, west Kalimantan show drainage canals covering an area of peatland that the Malaysia-based company IOI had marked for restoration in a sustainability commitment in 2014. Draining peatland is the first step for developing...
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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...
Palm plantations shaken by the green body they helped create
2016-06-07 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In 2004, Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group became a founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and later an executive board member in what seemed like a cosy arrangement. Twelve years later, IOI attempted to take legal action against RSPO over an environmental ruling that has cost the company sales in the United States and Europe. In March, the RSPO withdrew its "sustainability certification" from IOI, based on a decision to uphold a complaint from Amsterdam-based...
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...
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