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
After a delay of almost five years to the day, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has finally got around to addressing a complaint filed against a company linked to clearing Papuan rainforests
Some of the companies committing the worst deforestation for palm oil have been entering the supply chains of major international companies with ‘no deforestation’ policies – including consumer brands such as Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle and Unilever – in a clear breach of those standards
Palm oil produced through the destruction of forestland is still being sold around the world with the blessing of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Satellite images acquired by EIA reveal that the clearing of tropical forests for palm oil has resumed in Indonesia’s West Papua after years of inactivity