Sentences with phrase «palm oil traders»
Spurred by the recent murder of Guatemalan environmental and human rights defender Rigoberto Lima Choc, a coalition of twelve global human rights and environmental organizations yesterday alerted the world's biggest palm oil traders of the gross violations of human rights occurring in the palm oil sector in Mesoamerica.
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Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).
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«We will work with suppliers, traders, and refiners to source palm oil and derivatives that will be traceable to known sources for the vast majority of our purchased oils.»
-- Twenty - four leading global producers of palm oil as well as commodities traders committed to contribute to the goal of zero net deforestation by 2020 and to work with Governments, private sector partners and indigenous peoples to ensure a sustainable supply chain.
(04/26/2012) Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil - based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.
It is up to these traders to insist that the palm oil they buy and supply to food manufacturers is full traceable and not associated with deforestation or human rights violations.
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.
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.
... rank the commitments and actions of major global retailers, manufacturers and traders that buy palm oil.
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.