Solazyme interview. http://mobile.foodnavigator-usa.com/Suppliers2/Innovating-with-microalgae-A-day-at-the-Solazyme-HQ/(page)/1
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Environmental news weekly watch
mongabay.com weekly newsletter - May 29, 2014 – RSPO vs TFT, Greenpeace accuses Herakles Cameroon, KLK loses PNG, WWF accuses April, Deutsche Bank divests Bumitama, Oxfam criticizes big food, Singapore wants companies to be responsible for haze
Yale environment 360, weekly newsletter - May 29, 2014 – Germany push for lignite (‘dirty’ brown coal) use & emissions set to rise after 20-year decline; US large dairy raises water pollution concern
Monday, May 12, 2014
Indonesia palm oil news
Vast hidden profits: from Asia's palm oil giants to a tiny British tax haven; http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/10/asian-logging-giant-tax-labyrinth-british-virgin-islands; Indonesian court helps to tear aside the veil of secrecy under which huge corporations operate in UK-linked tax haven, John Vidal in Road Town, Tortola, The Observer, Saturday 10 May 2014 23.11 BST
Indonesian Voters Head to Polls; Voice of America April 08, 2014 ; http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-indonesia-gears-up-for-legislative-election/1888504.html
JAKARTA - Some 187 million voters in Indonesia head to the polls Wednesday in parliamentary elections that will have a big influence on the country's presidential poll in July; Current electoral laws stipulate that a party or coalition of parties must win 25 percent of the popular vote or 20 percent of seats in the national parliament to nominate a presidential candidate.... But polls show that only one party, the Democratic Party of Struggle or PDI-P, will definitely pass the threshold.
Known locally as Jokowi, the Jakarta governor is wildly popular for his reputation for transparency and his hands-on approach to governance.... After his presidential bid was confirmed last month, the PDI-P’s popularity jumped from 27 to 37 percent in a widely watched opinion poll. The same poll showed the next closest party lagging 20 percent behind.... Professor Jemadu said it is too soon to call a Widodo presidential victory a certainty, but he said it is clear Indonesian voters want change....
A relative outsider with no connection to the country’s political elite, Joko Widodo is being touted as a new breed of Indonesian politician... Nonetheless, even as Widodo offers hope and change, the voting system is riddled with corruption... Since the collapse of Suharto’s 32-year authoritarian rule, this year marks the fourth time Indonesians will democratically elect their parliament... Results for the parliamentary election will be officially announced by May 9, but a quick count of the polls is expected within 24 hours.
Palm oil production in East Kalimantan on the rise; Jakarta Post, Mon, April 07 2014; http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/07/palm-oil-production-east-kalimantan-rise.html
Last year's production of fresh fruit bunches [TBS] and crude palm oil [CPO] reached 6.5 million tons and 1.4 million tons, respectively, up from only 1.6 million tons of TBS and 366,149 tons of CPO in 2008," Etnawati Usman, head of East Kalimantan ...
Sunday, May 4, 2014
US-Canada energy trade and Keystone politics
How Obama Shocked Harper as Keystone's Frustrator-in-Chief; bloomberg.com, Apr 25, 2014; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-24/how-obama-shocked-harper-as-keystone-frustrator-in-chief.html; Canada was so blinded by its long-held expectation that the U.S. wanted to buy its oil as much as Canada wanted to sell it that it missed critical cues -- including the hydraulic fracturing revolution that was starting to flood the U.S. with vast new energy supplies -- that Keystone was running into political trouble....This story of Harper’s and Obama’s frayed relations and how Keystone got bogged down was put together after on- and off-the-record interviews with more than 75 people -- current and former Canadian and U.S. government officials; Harper’s political advisers; industry executives; and Nebraska and Alberta politicians involved in the Keystone fray. A number of well-placed Canadian officials in a position to know the inside story asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak.......... the prime minister was unhappy that depictions of Canada as a “dirty oil” nation were not being adequately confronted by the industry or his ministers. He had become enamored with an argument put forth by conservative commentator Ezra Levant in a book called “Ethical Oil.” It posited that many petro-nations used their oil riches to finance nefarious activities and subjugate their own citizens........ Canada, in the view of Levant, stood practically alone as an ethical producer. In a “mandate letter” setting forth his priorities, Harper instructed Oliver, his new Natural Resources Minister, to become a take-no-prisoners salesman for Canada’s greatest resource....... In informal chats, U.S. officials suggested it would help Obama with his green constituency if Canada would move to regulate emissions from the oil and gas industry. The embassy in Washington, according to an official posted there, constantly relayed messages back home that Canada was being depicted as lax, almost indifferent on the environment. The message would come back that regulations were in the making........ The regulations didn’t surface because Harper and his closest advisers were dubious they mattered. They had come to the conclusion that Obama swallowed concessions whole and gave nothing back. Without an administration commitment to a joint approach, they felt Canada would be digging itself into a competitive hole, according to people familiar with the back-and-forth of the discussions........ Then just like that, or so it seemed in Canada, the emerging energy superpower got stopped in its tracks in Nebraska, America’s 37th-largest state by population and one crisscrossed by pipelines. The Canadians were surprised and stunned by the pushback, said a Canadian diplomat who worked on the file........ In Lincoln, the state capital, Republican Governor Dave Heineman was being lobbied by an unprecedented alliance of environmentalists, farmers and ranchers over a tiny stretch of the project in the Sandhills region.
On Aug. 31, just after the State Department passed its favorable assessment, Governor Heineman wrote Obama and Clinton. “Do not allow TransCanada to build a pipeline over the Ogallala Aquifer and risk the potential damage to Nebraska’s water,” he stated, adding he generally favored pipelines.
Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling said in an interview that the success of the grassroots campaign, employing scare tactics about unrelated matters like BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico blowout, made TransCanada realize the game had changed for the pipeline industry. “We were caught flat-footed because historically we hadn’t had to deal with that issue on the ground,” he said........ Back in Ottawa Tuesday, a frustrated and determined Harper gathered with his senior ministers in the cabinet room on the third floor of the main Parliament building. The level of urgency and import had rarely if ever felt higher, participants recalled........ Harper opened by describing a world in which Europe’s economy was in shambles yet it preferred to talk about matters like climate change. The U.S. had shown itself prepared to sacrifice energy security and job creation to curry environmental favor. Only Asia, he said, treated economic growth seriously........ Canadian oil producers have come up with new ways of moving bitumen to market, notably by rail. The method generates greater emissions than pipelines and so presents a dilemma for environmentalists who argue Keystone is a climate-change issue....... Yet analysts say Canada has made its share of questionable judgments, too, most obviously its original misreading of Nebraska but also allowing itself to become stigmatized as an environmental laggard. John Kirton, a director of the G8 and G20 Research Groups at the University of Toronto who is writing a book on climate-change politics, said Harper has always taken a hesitant stand on climate change issues in domestic politics and at international summits, failing to build bridges and leaving Obama little to work with........ The Canadian government also failed to appreciate how the explosive growth of shale gas and oil produced by fracking has changed the rules of U.S. energy politics. Canada was still playing the classic energy security card at a time when import pressure was subsiding under a green president........ “If there’s a lesson in this,” said Preston Manning, Harper’s party leader when he first entered Parliament, “it’s that these market opportunities won’t last forever. I think Canadians just took it for granted that the U.S. could take all the oil and gas that Canada could ever produce.” ....... Some see a larger issue for Canada beyond pipelines and oil. “With Obama saying no to Canada or what amounts to a no, the lesson is that we cannot rely anymore on the United States for our economic well-being,” said Allan Gotlieb, former deputy minister of foreign affairs and Ambassador to Washington.......
No Keystone XL? Blame Canada, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-25/no-keystone-xl-blame-canada
Keystone Weirdonomics Means Gas Prices Won’t Be Getting Any Cheaper By Tom Randall Apr 26, 2014 3:40 AM; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-25/keystone-weirdonomics-means-gas-prices-won-t-be-getting-any-cheaper-.html; “The Canadian plan was to use their market power to raise prices in the United States (UNG) and get more money from consumers,” Philip Verleger, founder of Colorado-based energy consulting firm PK Verleger LLC, said in an interview. Prices may gain 10 to 20 cents in central states, he said.... A Cornell University study in 2011 had similar findings: KXL will divert Tar Sands oil now supplying Midwest refineries, so it can be sold at higher prices to the Gulf Coast and export markets. As a result, consumers in the Midwest could be paying 10 to 20 cents more per gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel. These additional costs (estimated to total $2–4 billion) will suppress other spending and will therefore cost jobs....
Canada Finds China Option No Easy Answer to Keystone Snub; May 3, 2014 12:01 PM GMT+0800; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-02/how-canada-s-flirtation-with-a-china-oil-market-soured.html; .... Harper stood before a business audience in a luxury hotel banquet hall in Guangzhou, capital of China’s most populous province, putting on his best pro-China face while touting his nation’s virtues. “Canada is not just a great trading nation; we are an emerging energy superpower,” he said surrounded by a phalanx of red Chinese and Canadian flags.... Oil was top of mind. He noted that a single country -- the U.S. -- took 99 percent of Canada’s exports, a situation he described as contrary to Canada’s commercial interests. “You know,” he said, “we want to sell our energy to people who want to buy our energy. It’s that simple.”... That Harper now found himself in the People’s Republic hawking Alberta’s oil spoke to the depth of his frustration with Obama. His view, according to people close to Harper who knew his thinking but aren’t authorized to speak, was that sensible Americans would understand the folly of allowing Canada’s massive oil sands reserves, estimated at 168 billion recoverable barrels, to be sucked up by China, a rising economic and political rival. Yet if the Americans – most particularly a president inclined to indulge his green base at Canada’s expense - didn’t pay heed, then Harper had primed the pump to do business with the Chinese....Ultimately, Harper’s cabinet has the final say as to whether the 1,177-kilometer, C$6.5 billion Gateway project is approved. A decision is required by mid June. To kill it could undermine his arguments that Keystone ought to be built, arming anti-Keystone factions with a powerful argument that Canada isn’t willing to practice what it preaches to Obama.... To approve it risks a political and legal brawl. Some green and aboriginal groups are already sounding warnings of massive civil disobedience and lawsuits in British Columbia if Harper says yes. To change the game – with adjustments to the route and revenue sharing, for instance – could conceivably buy peace, at a cost..... “We’re long on rhetoric and short on strategic thinking and planning,” said Wenran Jiang, a University of Alberta China specialist who consults to the Alberta government and energy industry. “You can’t engage the second-largest economy in the world in such a way.” ...Against this principled Harper stood Harper the realist: The oil industry, centered in his home province of Alberta, increasingly recognized it needed new markets for its oil. When first elected prime minister, Harper had firmly embraced an anti-China wing of his party, adopting their belief that China needed Canada and its resources more than Canada needed China, according to advisers familiar with the strategy who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak... This led to an approach often described internally as cold diplomacy with warm economics...
On Aug. 31, just after the State Department passed its favorable assessment, Governor Heineman wrote Obama and Clinton. “Do not allow TransCanada to build a pipeline over the Ogallala Aquifer and risk the potential damage to Nebraska’s water,” he stated, adding he generally favored pipelines.
Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling said in an interview that the success of the grassroots campaign, employing scare tactics about unrelated matters like BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico blowout, made TransCanada realize the game had changed for the pipeline industry. “We were caught flat-footed because historically we hadn’t had to deal with that issue on the ground,” he said........ Back in Ottawa Tuesday, a frustrated and determined Harper gathered with his senior ministers in the cabinet room on the third floor of the main Parliament building. The level of urgency and import had rarely if ever felt higher, participants recalled........ Harper opened by describing a world in which Europe’s economy was in shambles yet it preferred to talk about matters like climate change. The U.S. had shown itself prepared to sacrifice energy security and job creation to curry environmental favor. Only Asia, he said, treated economic growth seriously........ Canadian oil producers have come up with new ways of moving bitumen to market, notably by rail. The method generates greater emissions than pipelines and so presents a dilemma for environmentalists who argue Keystone is a climate-change issue....... Yet analysts say Canada has made its share of questionable judgments, too, most obviously its original misreading of Nebraska but also allowing itself to become stigmatized as an environmental laggard. John Kirton, a director of the G8 and G20 Research Groups at the University of Toronto who is writing a book on climate-change politics, said Harper has always taken a hesitant stand on climate change issues in domestic politics and at international summits, failing to build bridges and leaving Obama little to work with........ The Canadian government also failed to appreciate how the explosive growth of shale gas and oil produced by fracking has changed the rules of U.S. energy politics. Canada was still playing the classic energy security card at a time when import pressure was subsiding under a green president........ “If there’s a lesson in this,” said Preston Manning, Harper’s party leader when he first entered Parliament, “it’s that these market opportunities won’t last forever. I think Canadians just took it for granted that the U.S. could take all the oil and gas that Canada could ever produce.” ....... Some see a larger issue for Canada beyond pipelines and oil. “With Obama saying no to Canada or what amounts to a no, the lesson is that we cannot rely anymore on the United States for our economic well-being,” said Allan Gotlieb, former deputy minister of foreign affairs and Ambassador to Washington.......
No Keystone XL? Blame Canada, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-25/no-keystone-xl-blame-canada
Keystone Weirdonomics Means Gas Prices Won’t Be Getting Any Cheaper By Tom Randall Apr 26, 2014 3:40 AM; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-25/keystone-weirdonomics-means-gas-prices-won-t-be-getting-any-cheaper-.html; “The Canadian plan was to use their market power to raise prices in the United States (UNG) and get more money from consumers,” Philip Verleger, founder of Colorado-based energy consulting firm PK Verleger LLC, said in an interview. Prices may gain 10 to 20 cents in central states, he said.... A Cornell University study in 2011 had similar findings: KXL will divert Tar Sands oil now supplying Midwest refineries, so it can be sold at higher prices to the Gulf Coast and export markets. As a result, consumers in the Midwest could be paying 10 to 20 cents more per gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel. These additional costs (estimated to total $2–4 billion) will suppress other spending and will therefore cost jobs....
Canada Finds China Option No Easy Answer to Keystone Snub; May 3, 2014 12:01 PM GMT+0800; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-02/how-canada-s-flirtation-with-a-china-oil-market-soured.html; .... Harper stood before a business audience in a luxury hotel banquet hall in Guangzhou, capital of China’s most populous province, putting on his best pro-China face while touting his nation’s virtues. “Canada is not just a great trading nation; we are an emerging energy superpower,” he said surrounded by a phalanx of red Chinese and Canadian flags.... Oil was top of mind. He noted that a single country -- the U.S. -- took 99 percent of Canada’s exports, a situation he described as contrary to Canada’s commercial interests. “You know,” he said, “we want to sell our energy to people who want to buy our energy. It’s that simple.”... That Harper now found himself in the People’s Republic hawking Alberta’s oil spoke to the depth of his frustration with Obama. His view, according to people close to Harper who knew his thinking but aren’t authorized to speak, was that sensible Americans would understand the folly of allowing Canada’s massive oil sands reserves, estimated at 168 billion recoverable barrels, to be sucked up by China, a rising economic and political rival. Yet if the Americans – most particularly a president inclined to indulge his green base at Canada’s expense - didn’t pay heed, then Harper had primed the pump to do business with the Chinese....Ultimately, Harper’s cabinet has the final say as to whether the 1,177-kilometer, C$6.5 billion Gateway project is approved. A decision is required by mid June. To kill it could undermine his arguments that Keystone ought to be built, arming anti-Keystone factions with a powerful argument that Canada isn’t willing to practice what it preaches to Obama.... To approve it risks a political and legal brawl. Some green and aboriginal groups are already sounding warnings of massive civil disobedience and lawsuits in British Columbia if Harper says yes. To change the game – with adjustments to the route and revenue sharing, for instance – could conceivably buy peace, at a cost..... “We’re long on rhetoric and short on strategic thinking and planning,” said Wenran Jiang, a University of Alberta China specialist who consults to the Alberta government and energy industry. “You can’t engage the second-largest economy in the world in such a way.” ...Against this principled Harper stood Harper the realist: The oil industry, centered in his home province of Alberta, increasingly recognized it needed new markets for its oil. When first elected prime minister, Harper had firmly embraced an anti-China wing of his party, adopting their belief that China needed Canada and its resources more than Canada needed China, according to advisers familiar with the strategy who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak... This led to an approach often described internally as cold diplomacy with warm economics...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Sugar news
Bunge in Process of Selling Brazil Sugar Business; Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2014 ; http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304788404579522633959049714?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304788404579522633959049714.html
"We're in the process and when we reach the moment (of closing a sale) we'll announce it," Mr. Parente told reporters at a dinner ahead of the inauguration on Friday of a grain-loading terminal in Barcarena, in northern Brazil.
Brazil Sugar King Cleared to Buy Top Commodity Rail Route, Apr 16, 2014
Bloomberg; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-15/brazil-sugar-king-cleared-to-buy-top-commodity-rail-route.html; Cosan, the sugar maker controlled by billionaire Rubens Ometto, won unanimous approval from ALL-America Latina Logistica SA (ALLL3) controlling shareholders to buy the train operator for about $3 billion in an all-stock deal, ALL-Logistica said in a ...
Wilmar Forms Myanmar Sugar Venture to Expand Push Into Sweetener By Yuriy Humber Apr 14, 2014 9:40 AM; Wilmar International Ltd. (WIL), the largest sugar cane miller in Australia, agreed to form a Myanmar venture with a local partner as it builds on a four-year push into sugar production in Asia. The Singapore-based company will hold 55 percent in the venture with Great Wall Food Stuff Industry Co. after buying all of the local company’s sugar-manufacturing capacity, Wilmar said today in a statement. Wilmar will use its own funds for the investment and the venture will not have a “material impact” on this year’s earnings per share, the company said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-14/wilmar-forms-myanmar-sugar-venture-to-expand-push-into-sweetener.html
This Is What Happens When You Give Up Sugar for One Year; April 11, 2014; http://time.com/59856/this-is-what-happens-when-you-give-up-sugar-for-one-year/
The World Health Organization recently announced new guidelines, suggesting we cut our sugar intake to 5% of our daily calories, down from the previously recommended 10%. But in 2011, Eve Schaub had already decided to do something even more drastic: eliminate sugar from her diet altogether.... In her new book, Year of No Sugar, out this week, the author chronicles how she, her husband, and their two children got through the challenge. Starting with the usual suspects, like table sugar and honey (natural sugar, like the kind found in fruit, was acceptable), the Schaubs eliminated any food products containing added sugar. To their surprise, that meant some salad dressings, mayonnaise, bread, and even bacon.... The result: they started feeling much better. The changes came on slowly, Schaub says, beginning with having more energy. Schaub’s daughters missed fewer days of schools.
Sugar Output in Thailand May Miss Target as Drought Cuts Yields; Bloomberg Mar 31, 2014 6:35 PM ; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-31/sugar-output-in-thailand-may-miss-target-as-drought-cuts-yields.html
Thailand, the world's second-biggest sugar exporter, may produce less sweetener this year than forecast as dry weather shrinks yields, according to Thai Sugar Millers Corp. Output may total 11 million metric tons in the year started Nov. 25, less than ...
Cargill, Copersucar to form world's No. 1 sugar trader, Thu Mar 27, 2014; http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/cargill-sugar-idUSL5N0MO3O220140327
U.S.-based agribusiness trader Cargill and Brazil's Copersucar announced plans on Thursday to form a business to create the world's biggest sugar trader through a 50-50 joint venture. The venture will combine ...
Sugar Output in India Seen Jumping as Subsidy Boosts Exports; Bloomberg - 27 March 2014; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-27/sugar-production-in-india-seen-jumping-as-subsidy-boosts-exports.html; Sugar output in India, the world's largest producer after Brazil, is set to climb for the first time in three years as a subsidy for raw exports and abundant dam water spur farmers to increase planting.
"We're in the process and when we reach the moment (of closing a sale) we'll announce it," Mr. Parente told reporters at a dinner ahead of the inauguration on Friday of a grain-loading terminal in Barcarena, in northern Brazil.
Brazil Sugar King Cleared to Buy Top Commodity Rail Route, Apr 16, 2014
Bloomberg; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-15/brazil-sugar-king-cleared-to-buy-top-commodity-rail-route.html; Cosan, the sugar maker controlled by billionaire Rubens Ometto, won unanimous approval from ALL-America Latina Logistica SA (ALLL3) controlling shareholders to buy the train operator for about $3 billion in an all-stock deal, ALL-Logistica said in a ...
Wilmar Forms Myanmar Sugar Venture to Expand Push Into Sweetener By Yuriy Humber Apr 14, 2014 9:40 AM; Wilmar International Ltd. (WIL), the largest sugar cane miller in Australia, agreed to form a Myanmar venture with a local partner as it builds on a four-year push into sugar production in Asia. The Singapore-based company will hold 55 percent in the venture with Great Wall Food Stuff Industry Co. after buying all of the local company’s sugar-manufacturing capacity, Wilmar said today in a statement. Wilmar will use its own funds for the investment and the venture will not have a “material impact” on this year’s earnings per share, the company said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-14/wilmar-forms-myanmar-sugar-venture-to-expand-push-into-sweetener.html
This Is What Happens When You Give Up Sugar for One Year; April 11, 2014; http://time.com/59856/this-is-what-happens-when-you-give-up-sugar-for-one-year/
The World Health Organization recently announced new guidelines, suggesting we cut our sugar intake to 5% of our daily calories, down from the previously recommended 10%. But in 2011, Eve Schaub had already decided to do something even more drastic: eliminate sugar from her diet altogether.... In her new book, Year of No Sugar, out this week, the author chronicles how she, her husband, and their two children got through the challenge. Starting with the usual suspects, like table sugar and honey (natural sugar, like the kind found in fruit, was acceptable), the Schaubs eliminated any food products containing added sugar. To their surprise, that meant some salad dressings, mayonnaise, bread, and even bacon.... The result: they started feeling much better. The changes came on slowly, Schaub says, beginning with having more energy. Schaub’s daughters missed fewer days of schools.
Sugar Output in Thailand May Miss Target as Drought Cuts Yields; Bloomberg Mar 31, 2014 6:35 PM ; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-31/sugar-output-in-thailand-may-miss-target-as-drought-cuts-yields.html
Thailand, the world's second-biggest sugar exporter, may produce less sweetener this year than forecast as dry weather shrinks yields, according to Thai Sugar Millers Corp. Output may total 11 million metric tons in the year started Nov. 25, less than ...
Cargill, Copersucar to form world's No. 1 sugar trader, Thu Mar 27, 2014; http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/cargill-sugar-idUSL5N0MO3O220140327
U.S.-based agribusiness trader Cargill and Brazil's Copersucar announced plans on Thursday to form a business to create the world's biggest sugar trader through a 50-50 joint venture. The venture will combine ...
Sugar Output in India Seen Jumping as Subsidy Boosts Exports; Bloomberg - 27 March 2014; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-27/sugar-production-in-india-seen-jumping-as-subsidy-boosts-exports.html; Sugar output in India, the world's largest producer after Brazil, is set to climb for the first time in three years as a subsidy for raw exports and abundant dam water spur farmers to increase planting.
Friday, April 11, 2014
China anti-pollution efforts
China’s Li Swaps Steel Production for Cleaner Air: Commodities
By Bloomberg News Apr 11, 2014; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/china-s-li-swaps-steel-production-for-cleaner-air-commodities.html
China’s slowing economy and tougher government anti-pollution efforts are taking a toll on its steel mills, rattling the world’s biggest producer of the alloy and flashing worries of a potential downturn in the global iron-ore trade.
By Bloomberg News Apr 11, 2014; http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/china-s-li-swaps-steel-production-for-cleaner-air-commodities.html
China’s slowing economy and tougher government anti-pollution efforts are taking a toll on its steel mills, rattling the world’s biggest producer of the alloy and flashing worries of a potential downturn in the global iron-ore trade.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Buyer policies on palm oil
Indian food giant to source deforestation-free palm oil; Mongabay.com; http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0319-orkla-zero-deforestation.html; Orkla, a Nordic conglomerate that owns MTR Foods, one of India's major food companies, has established a zero deforestation policy for the palm oil it sources, reports Greenpeace... Orkla's policy commits it to full traceability and bars palm oil produced via forest and peatlands conversion by 2017. There are also provisions for workers rights and local communities.
Read: http://www.orkla.com/content/download/81608/16345118/file/Orkla%20Policy%20for%20sustainable%20palm%20oil.pdf
General Mills ramps up palm oil pledge to consider deforestation; BakeryAndSnacks.com 25 March 2014; http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Manufacturers/General-Mills-ramps-up-palm-oil-pledge-to-consider-deforestation; The cereal and snack titan said that while it was a, “relatively minor user of palm oil”, it remained committed to sourcing 100% of its palm oil responsibly and sustainably by 2015 - a pledge it first made in 2010. General Mills said it would continue ...
Colgate-Palmolive Latest Company to Jump on Deforestation-Free Palm Oil ...; Union of Concerned Scientists - Mar 24, 2014; http://www.ucsusa.org/news/commentary/colgate-palmolive-deforestation-free-palm-oil-0405.html; BERKELEY, Calif. (March 24, 2014) - Just days after General Mills committed to sourcing deforestation-free palm oil, Colgate-Palmolive today released its palm oil sourcing policy. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), major companies ...
Procter & Gamble think they can ignore deforestation - here's how we turn up the pressure; Greenpeace UK (blog); The companies you buy palm oil from are cutting down huge areas of rainforest - Greenpeace has photographic evidence from palm oil companies; http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/procter-gamble-think-they-can-ignore-deforestation-heres-how-we-turn-pressure-20140318
Procter & Gamble bows to pressure on palm oil deforestation; The Guardian, 9 April 2014; http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/09/procter-gamble-bows-to-pressure-on-palm-oil-deforestation; Procter & Gamble has bowed to pressure from environmentalists and revealed a new, extensive no-deforestation policy in the production of its products, including demanding fully traceable palm oil from suppliers. In the wake of severe criticism by a ...
and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/palm-oil-procter-gamble_n_5112715.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Read: http://www.orkla.com/content/download/81608/16345118/file/Orkla%20Policy%20for%20sustainable%20palm%20oil.pdf
General Mills ramps up palm oil pledge to consider deforestation; BakeryAndSnacks.com 25 March 2014; http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Manufacturers/General-Mills-ramps-up-palm-oil-pledge-to-consider-deforestation; The cereal and snack titan said that while it was a, “relatively minor user of palm oil”, it remained committed to sourcing 100% of its palm oil responsibly and sustainably by 2015 - a pledge it first made in 2010. General Mills said it would continue ...
Colgate-Palmolive Latest Company to Jump on Deforestation-Free Palm Oil ...; Union of Concerned Scientists - Mar 24, 2014; http://www.ucsusa.org/news/commentary/colgate-palmolive-deforestation-free-palm-oil-0405.html; BERKELEY, Calif. (March 24, 2014) - Just days after General Mills committed to sourcing deforestation-free palm oil, Colgate-Palmolive today released its palm oil sourcing policy. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), major companies ...
Procter & Gamble think they can ignore deforestation - here's how we turn up the pressure; Greenpeace UK (blog); The companies you buy palm oil from are cutting down huge areas of rainforest - Greenpeace has photographic evidence from palm oil companies; http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/procter-gamble-think-they-can-ignore-deforestation-heres-how-we-turn-pressure-20140318
Procter & Gamble bows to pressure on palm oil deforestation; The Guardian, 9 April 2014; http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/09/procter-gamble-bows-to-pressure-on-palm-oil-deforestation; Procter & Gamble has bowed to pressure from environmentalists and revealed a new, extensive no-deforestation policy in the production of its products, including demanding fully traceable palm oil from suppliers. In the wake of severe criticism by a ...
and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/palm-oil-procter-gamble_n_5112715.html?utm_hp_ref=green
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