Indonesia’s forests are shrinking despite reforms
At home and abroad, Indonesia is highlighting its progress in curbing the environmental destruction that has depleted forests and made it a leading source of greenhouse gases. But environmentalists are
View ArticleEU policy gap choking off next generation green fuel-industry
Projects to deliver a next generation of green transport fuel, which new research says could cut EU oil consumption by millions of tonnes per year, are on hold because of an EU policy vacuum,...
View ArticleThe state of sustainability initiatives review 2014: standards and the green...
The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review 2014 provides a bird's-eye view of market and performance trends across 16 of the most prevalent standards initiatives operating across ten different...
View ArticleGo Easy on the Climate Fatalists. They're Having a Hard Time
Indonesia's Borneo island shows the clearing of trees on a peatland forest located in Central Kalimantan in February. The area is being developed for a palm oil plantation. These must be rough days for
View ArticleHaze Fines Win Indonesia’s Support With Caveats: Southeast Asia
The incoming president of Indonesia, a holdout in Southeast Asia’s pact to fight haze, is backing Singapore’s plan to wield heftier fines against overseas polluters as long as sovereignty is respected.
View ArticleOrangutan experts plead for Australian food manufacturers to reject palm oil
One of the world’s leading orangutan experts has called on Australian food manufacturers to speed up efforts to ditch unsustainable palm oil, warning that the situation “has never been so desperate” for
View ArticleIndigenous communities and how ESG issues are impacting them around the world
Irresponsible business practices can have a disproportionate impact on indigenous communities, many of which continue to suffer from political and economic marginalization. This report highlights some
View ArticleCargill Joins Palm-Oil Makers to Pledge Forest Protection
Cargill Inc. joined the world’s largest makers of palm oil in a pledge to prevent deforestation and vowed to work with Indonesia, the biggest global producer, to implement policies that will protect...
View ArticleEndangered Orangutans Gain From Eco-Friendly Shifts in Palm Oil Market
Orangutans are endangered. Now, they're also at the epicenter of a quiet revolution, a transformation taking place on our grocery store shelves, as one company after another promises to switch to palm
View ArticleWilmar labors to convince small palm oil suppliers to go green
Wilmar International Ltd (WLIL.SI), the world's largest palm oil processor, could take longer than expected to convince small suppliers to comply with its push to be greener, its chief sustainability...
View ArticleUnilever to Use Only Sustainable Palm Oil in European Foods by End of Year
Every drop of palm oil used by Unilever PLC’s European food business, in products from Magnum ice cream to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spreads, will come from sustainable sources by the end of 2014,
View ArticleEndangered Orangutans May Have Hope Yet: Study
A new study offers hope for endangered orangutans in Borneo, who are suffering due to deforestation and climate change. "In order to identify eventual environmental refuges for the animals, we applied
View ArticleIndonesian indigenous groups look to tourists to protect forests
Indonesian indigenous communities launched a project on Friday to encourage foreign tourism in ancestral forests to slow the advance of logging operations and palm oil plantations. The GreenIndonesia
View ArticlePepsiCo defends Doritos' palm oil policy
Doritos parent company PepsiCo has fired back at an environmental campaign which attacked the snack brand's 'destruction of rainforests' and 'unsustainable use of palm oil'. Launched yesterday (13
View ArticleBiofuel policies: fuel versus food, forests, and climate
This paper reviews the evolution of biofuel policies in the United States, because it is by far the largest market for biofuels, and the European Union, because the use of oilseed crops for biodiesel,
View ArticleWilmar opens palm oil supplies to scrutiny to protect forests
Wilmar International Ltd. , the world's largest palm oil processor, opened its supply chains to outside scrutiny on Thursday in what environmentalists called an unprecedented step to help safeguard...
View ArticleAfrica: Agribusiness Companies Destroying Vital Rainforest Habitat of...
Endangered great ape species are having their rainforest habitat destroyed and threatened by the expansion of agribusiness projects in central Africa according to new evidence from Greenpeace Africa.
View ArticleEU beef, palm oil imports help fuel illegal logging, campaign group says- TRFN
Forests the size of a football field were illegally cleared every two minutes between 2000 and 2012 to supply European consumers with beef, soy beans, leather and palm oil, a campaign group said on...
View ArticleIndonesia defends deforestation for palm oil on economic grounds
Clearing forests for palm oil plantations is a "technical" matter that should not get tied up with trade discussions, an Indonesian minister told a land and poverty conference. Growing global demand
View ArticleNew online platform tracks corporate actions in tropical forests
A group of large companies, mainly in the food sector, have promised to reduce their role in the destruction of the world's forests, and a new online portal launched on Wednesday aims to hold them to...
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