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With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?

Pek Shibao 4 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Palm oil co suspends forest conversion to comply with Wilmar’s zero deforestation policy

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2016

New ‘Forest 500’ report finds both public and private sector have long way to go on deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 20 Nov 2015

PepsiCo’s palm oil pledge should not exempt Indofood, NGOs say

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2015

Aircraft fight Sumatran fires as Indonesian minister looks to counter no-deforestation pledges

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Oct 2015

1.4 million Brazilians co-sign zero deforestation bill submitted to Brazil’s Congress

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2015

An alternative to help companies fulfill zero deforestation pledges

Mike Gaworecki 28 Sep 2015

Second largest palm oil producer in Indonesia commits to zero deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 21 Sep 2015

Cargill commits to removing deforestation from supply chain by 2030

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2015
Borneo orangutan. Orangutan habitat is being destroyed for oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo.

Target, Costco, Grupo Bimbo adopt new palm oil policies

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2015

Avon the latest major palm oil user to make zero-deforestation pledge

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2015

‘Sea change’ in clothing industry means more protections for forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jun 2015

Do we need to move ‘beyond certification’ to save forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2015

Bunge: if you clear peatlands, we won’t buy your palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2015

Controversy emerges over alleged deforestation policy breach by APRIL supplier

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2015

Bunge palm oil supplier plans to clear peatlands for plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2015

Palm oil giants to investigate company found razing Papuan rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2015

Greenpeace re-engages with APP after response to activist’s killing

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 May 2015

Zero deforestation commitments bearing fruit in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 May 2015

Palm oil certification body to establish stronger voluntary standard

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

‘Zero Deforestation’ not necessarily the answer, environmentalists warn

Pek Shibao 27 Apr 2015

McDonald’s to address deforestation across all commodities it sources

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2015

Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2015

Who’s to blame for forest loss in Borneo timber concession?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2015

Palm oil companies, NGOs endorse new deforestation-limiting toolkit

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2015

KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut adopt zero deforestation policy for palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Apr 2015

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