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Podcast on RSPO's new principles and criteria for certifying palm oil as environmentally and socially sustainable.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has released new criteria for certifying responsibly grown palm oil. What's changed and how does RSPO respond to criticism that the new standard lowers the bar for deforestation?

7 Nov 2024

Sea orchards developed on decommissioned oil platforms

Former petrochemicals industry executives Steve Willis and Genevieve Hilton have written a novel set 50 years into the future that has a happy ending. They tell the Eco-Business podcast that the book is a pitch to carbon-intensive industries to try workable climate solutions.

The EB Podcast Petronas COP28

The oil and gas sector needs to cut operational emissions faster, Charlotte Wolff-Bye tells the Eco-Business podcast. But slashing fuel output won’t do for the Asian supplier, and it welcomes respectful debate at the climate summit.

Smoke from burning land in Indonesia

EB Studio Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.

9 June 2023

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24 August 2022

An Eco-Business debate in 2019

17 June 2022

Greenwashing has become a growing problem

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Keppel Bay Tower in Singapore

20 May 2022

Ice caps and a warming planet

21 March 2022

Paper sustainable packaging by RyPax

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The EB Podcast talked to Rob Kaplan

28 September 2020

Palm oil farmers working with Natural Habitats

26 August 2020

Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

21 August 2020

People using ATM machines in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

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Child labour on palm oil plantation

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Smallholders in palm oil industry

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oil palm plantation workers take a rest from work

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woman oil palm plantation worker

18 September 2018

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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