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Palm Oil for West Drives Exploitation in Malaysia
2013-04-10 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pulitzer Center: Squinting under the bill of his baseball cap, Leonary Marcus scans the treetops for ripe clusters of palm fruit to hack down with the aluminum scythe hanging from his shoulder. When a flame-red bunch catches his eye, he hooks the tool at the crux of the branch and yanks downward with all the muscle a 17-year-old can muster. The canopy shakes, a squawking bird flees and the fruit crashes to the ground in scattered heaps for him to gather into a rusty wheelbarrow. Leonary wipes the sweat from his face...
Largest Liberian palm oil project is failing locals: study
2013-03-22 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Liberia's largest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum, needs to review its social and environmental policies after its workers damaged graves, cleared existing crops and polluted creeks, according to an independent study it commissioned. The findings from The Forest Trust (TFT), a non-profit environmental consultancy, follow complaints from activists that the Singapore-controlled firm is violating commitments it made as a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification...
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Indonesian palm oil giant launches conservation pilot project
2013-03-19 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Golden Agri-Resources, one of the largest palm oil producers in Indonesia, is launching a pilot program designed to protect forests within its concession areas that have high carbon stock and those most important for conservation. Greenpeace Indonesia, which has long urged the company to adopt more sustainable practices, praised the effort, and called on other palm oil companies and the Indonesian government to follow suit. Under its Forest Conservation Policy, developed together with Greenpeace...
Indonesian Government to Revoke Palm Oil Licenses Without Sustainable Credentials
2013-03-13 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Globe: The Indonesian government is ready to revoke the licenses of palm oil companies in the country if they do not have an Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil certificate by 2014, a high-level official at the Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday. Because it is a mandatory, there will be sanctions. We could revoke the licenses of palm oil companies that do not have the ISPO, said Gamal Nasir, director general for plantations at the ministry. The Indonesian government introduced the ISPO several years...
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Dunkin' Donuts to adopt palm oil policy to address deforestation concerns
2013-03-07 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Doughnut and coffeehouse giant Dunkin' Donuts has agreed to source 100 percent of its palm oil under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), though the company has yet to set a date for the move, reports the New York State Comptroller's office. The fast-food chain has been the target of environmental campaigners who have linked palm oil production to the destruction of tropical rainforests and other environmental ills in Malaysia and Indonesia. The move came after New York State Comptroller...
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