Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability
Mongabay Series: Global Palm Oil, Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments. WWF found that only 78 had made commitments to use 100 certified sustainable palm oil by 2015
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has adopted new standards that will prohibit its member companies from clearing any type of forest for palm plantations.
Peru aims to eliminate palm oil deforestation by 2021
Palm oil smallholder farmers function as independent palm producers and sell palm to nearby plantations. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) the world’s largest palm oil
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is widely considered the strongest certification scheme for the commodity, which is grown largely on plantations hacked out of tropical forests that
Using space tech to improve palm oil transparency
MEDELLIN, Colombia — Keeping an eye on what is going on out in the vast countryside of Colombia’s palm oil plantations is a challenge. But that may be about to change.
Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the ban at the group’s annual general assembly in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, on November 15. The ban is now part of the RSPO’s new core standards, the Principles and Criteria (P&C), which member companies must comply with for their product to be
Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to
Mongabay Series: Global Palm Oil. 190,000 hectares of oil palm are being cultivated in Honduras. Africa Amazon Asia Australia Borneo Brazil Cameroon Central America Colombia Congo
China’s palm oil imports are tapering off.. From January to April 2016, China’s palm oil imports edged down by 0.1% YoY compared with an 11.4% YoY improvement for soybean. We estimate Malaysia’s market share of China’s palm oil imports to be flat at 35% in April 2016.
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Already some industry leaders are working to develop "sustainable palm oil" that meets certain criteria to ensure that its production did not result in deforestation or hurt wildlife. Consumers can now choose products made from more environmentally-friendly palm oil, which is certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil or RSPO. These
Mongabay Hans Nicholas Jong . October 1st, 2025 / 1:30 PM calling them “nothing more than a distraction from the genuine efforts by Wilmar to promote the sustainable development of palm oil.” have been independently verified as compliant with all aspects of its NDPE policy — even if that means it must sell less palm oil