United Biscuits' decision to switch to more sustainable palm oil has done little to quell criticism by environmentalists Palm oil is the 4x4 of processed food ingredients – ubiquitous (it's in one in 10 supermarket products),... [read full story]
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By Niluksi Koswanage Source: Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Indonesia will stick to a controversial plan to open peatlands for oil palm estates as it seeks to develop the economy despite protests from green groups that this...
Commenting on a decision by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) today not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria, Friends of the Earth's biofuels campaigner Kenneth Richter said:...
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has today decided not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria - yet further evidence that palm oil cannot be a sustainable biofuel
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com November 04, 2009 Environmentalists and palm oil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from...
A leading food manufacturer says it will switch to a "sustainable" source of palm oil for its most famous brands, such as McVitie's, Jaffa Cakes and Penguin. United Biscuits said that by mid-2010 it hopes that two-thirds of its...
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland Friends of the Earth International 'CERTIFIED' PALM OIL NOT A SOLUTION TO SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL WOES KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA November 3, 2009 -- Certifying palm oil is...
A second NGO has now called into question the veracity of the palm oil campaigns set up by some green campaigners. In a straight talking statement released yesterday (1st November), Tim Wilson, Director of the Intellectual...
By Niluksi Koswanage 11-2-09 - KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Planned palm oil carbon emission targets will be delayed by at least a year as planters clash with NGOs on calculating the vegetable oil's environmental impact, officials...
ASA rules that Malaysian Palm Oil Council's claims that plantations are sustainable and help to tackle poveerty are likely to mislead Cath Everett, BusinessGreen, 02 Nov 2009 Attempts by the global palm oil industry to enhance...
MELBOURNE, Australia - “Misguided campaigns by the Melbourne and Auckland Zoos and activists lack understanding of why forest and orang-utans are being lost. It isn’t palm oil it’s poverty,” said Tim Wilson, Director of the...
