Certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) cannot provide assurance that palm oil has been produced in full compliance with Indonesian law. For more than 20 years, the RSPO – the world’s best-known certification scheme for palm oil, intended to assure consumers that palm oil production does not cause environmental or social harms […]
A long-running land dispute in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province – dubbed Indonesia’s highest profile land conflict – has erupted again, spurring calls for renewed scrutiny on First Resources, a major palm oil producer and member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), over breaches of sustainability commitments. On 18 June, the Indigenous Dayak Benuaq […]
Despite making public commitments to ‘no deforestation’, some of the world’s largest companies have been buying palm oil from a notorious plantation area in Indonesia which has experienced extensive forest destruction. On Wednesday (19 November), EU member states adopted a heavily weakened stance on the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), proposing new delays and a review […]
A new report by EIA and our Indonesian partner Kaoem Telapak lays bare alleged deforestation, corruption and human rights violations by companies in Indonesia’s palm oil sector which all have one thing in common – the Fangiono family. The report A Family Affair – Ongoing allegations of deforestation, corruption and human rights violations in Indonesia’s […]
Today (8 April), the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RPSO) – the main voluntary certification scheme for palm oil – will be 20-years-old
Palm oil is cheap, versatile and used widely in countess thousands of products and in biofuels, but its production has been linked to human rights abuses, illegal logging and deforestation, causing considerable harm to indigenous peoples and the habitats of endangered orangutans