Sentences with phrase «palm oil investor»

A WWF 2012 report, Palm oil investor Guidance looking at the role of investors in supporting the development of a sustainable palm oil industry.

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NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations

New York - based investors are eyeing Cameroon's rainforests for industrial - scale oil palm plantations.

10,000 hectares of forest near Lake Victoria are about to be destroyed for oil palm plantations: the Ugandan government is awarding land on Buvuma Island to international investors.

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In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations (known as sawit kelapa in Indonesia), providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

In a December 2013 warning to potential investors in a US$ 90 million initial public offering for PT SSS, EIA revealed an independent evaluation of the firm's prospectus showed illegal clearance of forest areas and direct threats to orangutan habitat posed by planned expansion of the firm's oil palm plantations.

«Additional analysis is required to look beyond industrial oil palm plantations and capture the dynamics of oil palm expansion in smallholder lands, and how other actors, including local investors, are shaping land use dynamics linked to oil palm expansion».

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations, providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

Following years of complaints to international organizations — including the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry's leading certification body — these communities remain on the frontlines of a development model that puts people's wellbeing in the hands of private companies and foreign investors.