{"id":6840,"date":"2019-11-06T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:29:16","slug":"5-problems-with-sustainable-palm-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/5-problems-with-sustainable-palm-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"5 problems with \u2018sustainable\u2019 palm oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Palm oil is used in all sorts of everyday products from shampoo to chocolate, but it\u2019s been disastrous for the world\u2019s forests. Here are five not-so-fun facts about \u2018certified sustainable\u2019 palm oil, which is often anything but.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-6841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/11\/ef8e8ee0-gp04kv2_pressmedia-1024x683-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Palm Oil\" alt=\"Palm Oil\" class=\"wp-image-6841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/11\/ef8e8ee0-gp04kv2_pressmedia-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/11\/ef8e8ee0-gp04kv2_pressmedia-1024x683-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/11\/ef8e8ee0-gp04kv2_pressmedia-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/11\/ef8e8ee0-gp04kv2_pressmedia-1024x683-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Transport of oil palm fruit by truck from PT Inti Indosawit Subur, an oil palm plantation owned by Asian Agri, the palm oil division of the RGE group. A recent WWF investigation documented trade from illegal oil palm plantations in Tesso Nilo National Park to the RSPO-certified PT Inti Indosawit Subur mill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Chances are you\u2019ve heard of palm oil, and you know it has a pretty bad reputation. But what is palm oil \u2013 and why are people so up in arms?<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Palm oil is cheap \u2013 and we\u2019re using way too much of it<\/h2>\n\n<p>Palm oil is a vegetable oil \u2013 like sunflower or olive oil. It\u2019s made from the fruit of oil palm trees \u2013 Elaeis guineensis \u2013 which come from West Africa but were taken to Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Palm oil can be produced sustainably \u2013 but a lot of it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n<p>Palm oil is great for big food and cosmetics companies, because it\u2019s cheap and versatile. It\u2019s used in many of the things we use or eat every day: shampoo, bread, toothpaste, detergent and even snacks and chocolate bars.<\/p>\n\n<p>Not only do roughly half of the processed goods in the supermarket contain palm oil, but millions of tonnes of palm oil are going into the tanks of people\u2019s cars. More than 50% of palm oil coming into Europe is for biofuel.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Palm oil is a major cause of forest destruction<\/h2>\n\n<p>The palm oil industry has been a disaster for the world\u2019s forests, wildlife and climate. Palm oil is mostly grown in Indonesia and Malaysia, two tropical countries with large areas of rainforest home to tigers, orangutans and other species that are found nowhere else on earth.<\/p>\n\n<p>Palm oil companies have been destroying these rainforests because they want more land to grow oil palm trees.<\/p>\n\n<p>Around 24 million hectares of rainforest were destroyed in Indonesia between 1990 and 2015, according to official figures from the Indonesian government. That\u2019s an area the size of the UK. Palm oil and paper companies are the main causes of this destruction.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Palm oil is devastating the world\u2019s wildlife<\/h2>\n\n<p>Destroying forests and replacing them with palm oil plantations wipes out critical habitat for animals that have nowhere else to go. Half of the Bornean orangutan population has been wiped out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(18)30086-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in just 16 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>More than three-quarters of Indonesia\u2019s Tesso Nilo national park, home to tigers, orangutans and elephants, has been converted into <a href=\"http:\/\/wwf.panda.org\/wwf_news\/?264971\/Eyes-on-the-Forest-report-Global-supply-chains-still-tainted-with-illegal-palm-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">illegal palm oil plantations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Globally, 193 critically endangered, threatened and vulnerable species are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/resources\/issues-briefs\/palm-oil-and-biodiversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened by palm oil production<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. \u2018Certified sustainable\u2019 palm oil is a con<\/h2>\n\n<p>In 2004, the palm oil industry set up the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). RSPO members have their palm oil \u2018certified sustainable\u2019 and brands using this palm oil get to claim that their palm oil is \u2018sustainable\u2019.<\/p>\n\n<p>Most supermarkets in New Zealand and many big consumer brands like Nestl\u00e9 and Mondelez use RSPO palm oil in their products.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the RSPO is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. It took 14 years for the RSPO to ban its members from destroying forests \u2013 which it finally did in November 2018. It still hasn\u2019t enforced this new rule \u2013 and RSPO members are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/18455\/the-final-countdown-forests-indonesia-palm-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still destroying forests<\/a> and getting away with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>RSPO members were right at the centre of Indonesia\u2019s 2015 forest fires crisis. This year, the fires returned \u2013 and roughly three-quarters of the fires linked to palm oil companies were on RSPO members\u2019 land. This means that so-called \u2018sustainable\u2019 palm oil growers are \u2013 in some cases \u2013 at the forefront of Indonesia\u2019s environmental crisis.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Brands have broken their promise to end deforestation for palm oil<\/h2>\n\n<p>Back in 2010, some of the world\u2019s biggest brands promised to protect forests and clean up the palm oil industry by 2020. That\u2019s less than two months away \u2013 and companies are miles away from ending deforestation for palm oil.<\/p>\n\n<p>Many still don\u2019t even know where their palm oil comes from. In fact, there\u2019s no way for brands to tell how much forest is being destroyed to supply them with cheap palm oil.<\/p>\n\n<p>Brands have broken their promise to clean up the palm oil industry. 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