Better Forest Governance Key to Palm Oil’s Sustainability
Palm oil can be good for Indonesia only if there are substantial improvements in forest governance and if the sustainability of its production can truly be verified.
Palm oil can be good for Indonesia only if there are substantial improvements in forest governance and if the sustainability of its production can truly be verified.
After an intensive global campaign by Greenpeace, Wilmar International has published a detailed action plan to map and monitor its palm oil suppliers.
Six activists who were detained for 33 hours on board a shipment carrying dirty palm oil into Europe have been released by Spanish authorities.
"I’m from Indonesia. I’ve witnessed the devastating impact of deforestation for palm oil and our cities choking with haze as a result of the forest fires." said one protester.
Palm oil suppliers to snack food giant Mondelez have destroyed almost 25,000 hectares of orangutan habitat in Indonesia in just two years.
Indonesia, the world’s second-largest contributor of plastic waste in the oceans, is trying to stem hydrocarbon pollution crisis.