Sentences with phrase «palm oil producer»

The move comes after Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil producer and trader, hired lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman on the same issue.

To have its oil mill certified, a palm oil producer must show a plan to have 100 % of its associated smallholders meet RSPO standards within 3 years.

In Southeast Asia, the palm oil industry was stung by the decision by Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, to suspend its contract with Sinar Mas, the world's second largest producer of palm oil, after an investigation commissioned by the consumer products giant found allegations made by Greenpeace about the palm oil producer's environmental record to be true.

(09/23/2010) The Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body the sets standards for eco-friendly palm oil production, on Thursday said Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) breached its sustainability criteria and faces expulsion, reports AFP.

Following examples set forth by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and firms like Golden Hope Plantations Berhad, a Malaysian palm oil producer, oil palm can be cultivated in a manner that helps mitigate climate change, preserves biodiversity, and brings economic opportunities to desperately poor rural populations.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has found that another palm oil producer, Golden Agri - Resources — the largest producer in the country, has failed to keep its pledges to stop deforestation and has committed a number of human rights violations.

«She's not a fan,» campaign officially ends with environmental commitment from a major Indonesian palm oil producer.

Less than a month ago, the environmental watchdog group Forest Heroes launched a campaign targeting the Indonesian palm oil producer Astra Agro Lestari, and its parent company Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd..

The suspect, Afise Inusah, a palm oil producer at Akyem Etwereso in the Akyemmansa District in the Eastern Region is said to have fed the two children in her chamber pot and forced them to sleep at night in...

The suspect, Afise Inusah, a palm oil producer at Akyem Etwereso in the Akyemmansa District in the Eastern Region is said to have fed the two children in her chamber pot and forced them to sleep at night in a hen coop together with the live birds.

At the same time, POIG member and major palm oil producer Musim Mas has set a new bar for its peers with the publication of the Indonesian palm oil industry's first comprehensive, independent labour compliance assessment.

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

From grain producers to mine users, to palm oil producers, there's interest from 45 - plus clients in joining the platform,» Koneru says.

Sustainable palm oil producers in Asia have earned more than $ 6m in premiums via the GreenPalm certificate trading programme.

By joining GreenPalm and trading certificates, palm oil producers have earned an additional $ 9m for their efforts — a clear incentive to continue working sustainably and a powerful message to other producers that the sustainable route is a commercially worthwhile one to take.

Founded in 2013, the initiative was developed in partnership with leading NGOs as well as with progressive palm oil producers.

ZSL, together with collaborators from Queen Mary University of London, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and University of Malaya, continues to work closely with Malaysian palm oil producers in determining if simple modifications to agricultural practices may bring some of the forest species back into areas planted with oil palm and allow them to survive and reproduce in plantations.

Palm oil producers thought they had licked shortages of edible oil and biofuel in the 1980s, when they learned to make genetically identical copies of high oil - yielding palms.

Until now, studies of this kind have always focused largely on large - scale palm oil producers and how they exploit the forest and soil.

The fires in Indonesia are set by palm oil producers clearing jungle for new planting.

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

In Malaysia, palm oil producers are targeting the island province of Sarawak for major expansion.

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

It is widely anticipated that the creation of a premium market for RSPO - certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) would incentivize palm oil producers to improve their management practices.

(11/04/2009) Environmentalists and palm oil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendees.

Oil palm acreage for leading palm oil producers.

In response, palm oil producers have questioned the scientific credibility of greenhouse gas emissions studies the RSPO is drawing upon to establish its emissions standard.

IOI is a founding member of the RSPO, which was set up in 2004 as an association of palm oil producers, traders and users, as well as banks and NGOs.

«We saw an incredible movement which has resulted in close to 80 percent of palm oil producers now committing to zero - net deforestation in one year,» Mattison said.

Known as the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach Toolkit, the methodology is the product of years of debate between palm oil producers, buyers, traders, and civil society groups.

Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green (er) practices, but that's unlikely to appease George Monbiot.

Timber companies and palm oil producers have sought reassurance that they would be allowed to continue expansion.

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Similarly, a leading producer of palm oil in Papua New Guinea recognized the social and environmental impacts of production, so it altered its business model to include a fully traceable supply chain and reduced its use of petrochemicals as a fertilizer.

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«But surely manufacturers can just buy palm oil from the producers who work sustainably and clear their consciences that way?»

Getting to 100 % CSPO shows that these brands are committed to making sure that they are supporting sustainable producers — but now these brands need to focus on shifting to segregated sources of CSPO and show that they also support the trade in physical sustainable palm oil.

«Palm oil is already widely used in food manufacture and for good reason; oil palms are highly efficient oil producers requiring ten times less land than other oil - producing crops.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has published a report indicating that major food producers, including Kellogg's, PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz, are failing in their promise to eliminate Indonesian palm oil from...

As a leading producer of emulsifiers, DuPont Nutrition & Health has led the industry in the move toward sustainable emulsifiers since helping to establish the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004.

An RSPO - certified producer can earn one GreenPalm certificate for each tonne of palm oil or palm kernel oil produced.

Buyers of palm oil can now choose to support specific, named producers with GreenPalm certificates, which now include the name, address and GPS location of the sustainably certified mill trading each certificate.

The end user does not receive segregated sustainable palm oil, but it has directly funded an equivalent amount from an RSPO - certified producer.»

There won't be enough unless palm kernel oil producers are given an incentive and a commercial reason to start producing sustainably now.

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Malaysia is the second - largest producer of Palm Oil, and a major exporter.

In November 2015, we welcomed our third grower member, Musim Mas, the first major Southeast Asian oil palm producer to join POIG.

«Our collective aim is to raise the awareness of truly sustainable palm oil [so that] other producers that meet this highest standard of sustainability join the program, thus eventually becoming a collaboration of organic fair trade producers that can truly move the needle in impacting the palm oil industry.»

Lobby governments in producer countries to create and enforce legislation requiring legal and sustainable palm oil production.

IOI Loders Croklaan, a leading producer of palm - based fats and oils to the global food industry, has announced that 100 percent of its directly sourced palm oil worldwide is traceable to the mill level.

When you purchase Tropical Traditions Virgin Palm Oil, you are supporting small scale family producers in Africa, and NOT large corporate plantations in South East Asia.