Sunday, March 16, 2014

On palm oil certification & ngo campaigns

Progressive palm oil group opens door to companies, NGO's adopting zero deforestation policies; Mongabay.com; The Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG), an alliance formed last year, has ... Palm Oil — and four non-profits: WWF, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), ...

San Francisco Chronicle; Greenpeace Targets P&G Over Its Role in Ongoing Palm Oil Controversy; brandchannel.com; Palm oil, common in detergents, shampoos, cosmetics and a myriad of ... India and China, together consuming one-third of global palm oil imports, are ...

Free Malaysia Today; Oil palm refiner Wilmar caves in to political pressure
Free Malaysia Today; The biggest importers of Malaysian palm oil are China, India, Pakistan, the ... Last month Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (Soppoa) ...

FoodNavigator.com; Mars commits to palm oil deforestation policy; FoodNavigator.com; The company also announced that it had joined The Forest Trust (TFT) to help in its aim to prevent deforestation. Since 2010, the company has bought ...

GreenBiz.com (blog); How Golden Agri could help make half of all palm oil sustainable; GreenBiz.com (blog); Late in February Golden Agri Resources (GAR) which produces an estimated five per cent of the world's palm oil, made a significant announcement in ...

Standard for sustainability; The Star Online;  According to MPOB Deputy Director-General (Research & Development) Dr Ahmad Kushairi Din, the MSPO will be transparent for the benefits of ...

Greenpeace - global force with deep pockets; Cincinnati.com; By using zip lines to hang banners protesting the use of palm oil on the sides of P&G's iconic twin towers Downtown, Greenpeace International ...

Photos: Greenpeace stages protest in rainforest destroyed for palm oil; Mongabay.com; On Monday, Greenpeace activists in Indonesia staged a dramatic protest in an area of rainforest freshly cleared for a new oil palm plantation in Central ...


Got Science? Momentum Building for Deforestation-Free Palm Oil; Huffington Post; Two of the world's largest palm oil suppliers -- Wilmar and Golden ... regions such as Malaysia, Indonesia, as well as parts of Africa and Latin America. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4943164

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