Oil Palm: An illegal threat too
Reuters ran a story this week on illegal palm oil development in Aceh, Indonesia. The story takes an interesting angle, completely ignoring the massive scale of legal oil palm development…
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The IFC freezes funding of oil palm
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has frozen new investments in oil palm projects and is reviewing all current oil palm projects. The IFC…
TheProblemWithPalmOil.org is ready for action
Check out our new page at theproblemwithpalmoil.org. Demand for palm oil is on the rise, and pristine rainforests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for palm oil plantations….
Let the sleuthing begin!: TheProblemWithPalmOil.org goes LIVE
ADM, Bunge, and Cargill can’t hide any more: www.TheProblemWithPalmOil.org just went live. There is no secret about what US Agribusiness companies are doing in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the…
Oil Palm Devastating Indigenous Communities
I just returned to Kuching after visiting with seven Indigenous communities in northern Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo). What we saw was a tragic and infuriating picture of collusion between the…
P&G Accused of Failing to Deliver on Public Commitment to Restore Illegal Palm Plantations in Leuser Ecosystem
Procter and Gamble remains at risk of sourcing illegal palm oil In response to a Rainforest Action Network (RAN) investigation exposing illegal palm oil development in the Leuser Ecosystem, called…
Colgate-Palmolive Discloses Impact of Supply Chain on Forests and Communities
Rainforest Action Network calls on Ferrero, Procter & Gamble, and Kao to follow suit in urgent response to climate, human rights crises [San Francisco, CA] – International consumer goods giant…
Market Watch: Surprising investor rebellion at Procter & Gamble over toilet paper’s forest impact
“Two-thirds of Procter & Gamble’s shareholders this week defied the company’s own recommendations, upping the pressure on the consumer-goods giant to reduce sourcing virgin timber for its Charmin toilet paper,…
Reuters: Green groups flag threat to Indonesia forests recovered from palm planters
“Gemma Tillack, forest policy director at U.S.-based environmental group Rainforest Action Network, said the move was “a welcome signal at a time when forest fires are destroying rainforests the world…
Mongabay: Labor abuses persist in RSPO-certified palm plantations, report finds
“Bambang’s story highlights a different issue: the miserable working conditions at many of Indonesia’s palm plantations. These include excessive working hours, occupational health and safety hazards, and, more seriously, child…
