An article on Palm Oil Monitor last week made false allegations against the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), claiming we are being funded by UK AID to help further a fictitious European Union policy seeking to undermine Indonesian farmers by stopping them from exporting palm oil to the EU
A highly critical independent review has highlighted significant failings by the watchdog set up to reassure consumers that everyday products with palm oil have been made without damaging the environment
A fortnight ago we revealed how consumers are being conned about the sustainability of palm oil – and now the RSPO, the leading industry certification body which we criticised, has pledged to investigate
As the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting concludes in Bangkok, we and 14 other environmental NGOs call on it to do its job properly
We welcome and appreciate the RSPO’s response to our report. We do not accept that there were any ‘glaring inaccuracies’ in it
Consumers around the world are still being conned about the sustainability of the palm oil contained in the products they buy