#palm oil 新闻
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Attendees at ethical palm oil roundtable flag slow rollout of EUDR’s digital compliance system
Growers and traceability platforms at the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil say the compliance portal for EU’s deforestation law – meant to kick in next month – only opened for registration last week and is not fully live yet.
Environmentalists warn the plan to increase palm oil content in biodiesel will mean more deforestation, despite its association with renewables.
Palm oil trade certifier Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is facing scrutiny for a new standard that NGOs say weakens the protection of forests. RSPO says revision to its approach addresses implementation challenges.
The RSPO has ruled that PT Inecda, a Samsung subsidiary, violated its sustainability standards by failing to obtain consent from an Indigenous community in Sumatra before clearing forests for palm oil plantations.
#palm oil 观点
If policymakers and ESG proponents fail to ensure that the ESG agenda is equitable and credible – directly benefiting working class and rural communities – the credibility of ESG will deteriorate further.
The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) can help protect nature and biodiversity but requires careful cooperation.
These smallholder farmers can become "technopreneurs" in their own right if more incentives were provided for them to adopt technology and digitisation initiatives that can help improve sustainability performance.
New domestic policies and consumer goods manufacturers and retailers are steering Chinese suppliers toward sustainable palm oil practices.
#palm oil 视频
In the first in a new video series where sustainability leaders interview each other about the toughest things about their jobs, Simon Lord of Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation went head to head with Pamela Mar of Hong Kong-based textile and apparel giant Fung Group.
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Smallholder fish farmers in rural Kalimantan are turning towards sustainability, with some assistance from an agribusiness company.
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What does it mean to build a clean and fair palm oil supply chain? For drivers in Indonesia used to unsafe working conditions, this is what it could look like.
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What has been the effect of this agribusiness company's dual-income policy on the households of its Indonesian workers?
#palm oil 播客
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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?
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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.
Some environmentalists would argue that there's no such thing as sustainably grown palm oil, because of the crops links to deforestation and human rights abuses. Eco-Business spoke to Monique van Wijnbergen about how palm can be done right.
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Should the priority be to stop all child labour on palm oil plantations? Or to address the root causes of child labour?
#palm oil 研究
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