Sentences with phrase «palm oil producing»

Last week, Indonesia's chief natural resources minister, Rizal Ramli, told Parliament that Indonesia together with Malaysia is backing a new palm oil producing group.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

When companies join the RSPO, they commit to grow and use palm oil produced in a way that is fair to people, ecosystems and to wildlife.

Palm oil produced in compliance to stringent criteria and standard set by RSPO can then be offered as certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO).

«Our findings show that products bearing the RSPO label are less likely to contain palm oil produced on recently deforested lands, so by purchasing certified palm oil, you are supporting a reduction in deforestation, as well as increased transparency in the oil palm industry,» explained co-author David Burns of the National Wildlife Federation.

A 2007 study by Susan Page of the University of Leicester found that one ton of palm oil produced on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of carbon dioxide, largely the result of deforestation and draining of peatlands, making palm oil - based - biofuels produced by peatlands conversion worse for climate than burning of conventional fossil fuels.

In 2004 a group of stakeholders — including activists, investors, producers and retailers from around the world — formed the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to develop a certification scheme for palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible ways.

The research, based on a literature review and analysis of scientific methods used to derive emissions estimates, concludes that palm oil produced in peatland areas generates 86 metric tons of carbon dioxide per hectare per year over a 50 - year time period, well above the 50 ton estimate used previously.

A new study finds oil palm plantations store less carbon than previously believed, suggesting that palm oil produced through the conversion of tropical forests carries a substantial carbon debt.

(09/06/2013) Malaysia will launch its own certification standard for palm oil produced by local firms by 2014, reports Reuters.

Not exact matches

We're a long way from a perfect world where all palm oil is produced using ethical and responsible methods.

At the time of writing, the RSPO had reported that 3,253,188 tonnes of certified sustainable palm oil had been produced this year to date.

If it's commercially produced, it could contain as many as 15 separate palm oil - linked ingredients, from the shortening and the marzipan to the glaze on the cherries, the coating on the candied peel and the shiny raisins, and that's before we even get to the release agents used in the baking tins, the emulsifier in the margarine, and other materials used in industrial baking.

Thanks go to all the businesses that support GreenPalm, and to the growers and mills that produce sustainably produced palm oil.

Currently, certificates must represent the required volume of crude palm oil from which the refined material will be produced — meaning the buyer pays for more certificates than the material used.

Palm oil is problematic because of the way it is produced.

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«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.

Defined as farmers with 50 hectares or less of land, smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$ 66 billion industry's oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world's sustainable palm oil.

«In total, 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually, supplying over 30 % of the world's vegetable oil production.

Palm Oil Not to be Confused with Processed Palm Kernel Oils (Which is Mass Produced and Whose Cultivation often Results in the Deforestation of the Valuable Rainforest)

A small percentage of palm oil is sustainably produced, but the MCT oils that I looked at gave no indication as to how or where it was sourced.

The California - grown and made nut butters are produced without any refined sugars and instead have a touch of palm fruit oil for texture.

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

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is RSPO certified.

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is RSPO certified sustainable.

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is certified sustainable.

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

This is the world's first smallholder scheme to become certified under the RSPO's Smallholder Principles & Criteria and is also another important milestone in Cargill's commitment to producing palm oil in an environmentally sustainable -LSB-...]

Detailed public maps of RSPO certified palm oil concessions have now been added to the platform, showing exactly where RSPO certified palm is produced.

Expanding the supply - base of responsibly produced palm oil: announcing Sime Darby's application to POIG

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It was established in 2004 by a group comprising of stakeholders in seven sectors of global supply chain business as a result of a worldwide call for sustainably produced palm oil.

Bhatt adds, «This started back in 2011 with a worldwide call for sustainably produced palm oil.

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Our Virgin Palm Oil is produced by small - scale family producers in Africa.

Soil scientist Dr Paul Nelson from James Cook University says the technique will be particularly useful for growers of environmentally certified palm oil, which is produced without the clearing of primary forests, with transparent and fair agreements with landowners and good land management practices.

Greenpeace is reporting that Nestlé has agreed to all of its demands regarding its sourcing of palm oil from suppliers accused of destroying Indonesian rainforest to produce it.

To add insult to injury, most palm oil is not sustainably produced and is a big offender when it comes to environmental issues.

* organically produced organic palm oil from sustainable cultivation, certified by independent checkpoints

Tree nurseries were planted to produce fruit tree and oil palm seedlings to supply farmers.

The major crops that are produced in the district include cassava, plantain, oil palm, and pineapple.

He observed that Malaysia, which had independence at the same period as Ghana, had added value to its palm oil production and currently producing diversified products from that commodity, thus making it one of the world's buoyant economies.

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Presently, in current dollars, that fuel would cost airlines US$ 5.31 per gallon, which is less than bio-jet fuel produced from algae or other oil crops such as soybeans, canola or palm oil.

This is obvious in the most egregious example of all: the clearing of tropical rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for oil - palm plantations, at least a third of which are used to produce feedstocks for biofuels (the rest goes into processed food, from chocolate to cooking oil, and cosmetics).

Fires started by farmers in Indonesia, particularly those producing palm oil and timber for wood pulp and paper, are the main culprits of haze events in this region.

The plant has been engineered to produce lauric acid, used in soaps and cosmetics, and currently produced from coconut or palm oil (see This Week).

By pinning down a chemical modification of DNA that leads to poor oil production, researchers may help oil palm (above) growers produce more oil on less land.