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Sime Darby must match New Britain Palm Oil’s Progress
The completed purchase of New Britain Palm Oil Ltd puts buyer Sime Darby Plantations on the spot: will it match NBPOL’s responsible palm oil practices on the ground, in particular by adopting a comprehensive forest conservation policy across its entire supply chain?
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Greenpeace on the Rainforest Alliance’s independent evaluation of APP’s progress
Greenpeace statement on Rainforest Alliance report ‘An Evaluation of Asia Pulp & Paper’s Progress to Meet its Forest Conservation Policy (2013) and Additional Public Statements’
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Palm oil industry needs to support Jokowi’s leadership on forest and peat protection
Following last week’s strong pro-peatlands and forests commitment by new Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, two of the world’s largest palm oil producers and traders have announced policies to address criticism of deforestation in their supply chains.
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Steering Group established to oversee the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach for implementing ‘No Deforestation’ commitments
A group of leading plantation companies with commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, NGOs and technical support organisations met on 25th and 26th August in Singapore to establish a governance and standardisation body for the methodology, known as the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach, to be used to implement these commitments.
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Help Stop The Haze
Forest and peat fires are emerging as a global threat and are driving a public health emergency in Southeast Asia.
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Palm oil giant Wilmar caught in forest scandal – Greenpeace
Household brands such as P&G, Reckitt Benckiser and Mondelez exposed to tiger extinction
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Fire hotspots expose gaps in Indonesia’s forests moratorium
Greenpeace revealed half of the fire hotspots detected between June 11-18 that are choking Singapore and Malaysia with air pollution are in areas that should be protected by Indonesia’s forest moratorium.
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Greenpeace welcomes Golden Agri-Resources progress towards a ‘no deforestation footprint’ for palm oil
Greenpeace Indonesia welcomed the release today of a report from palm oil producer Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) identifying which forests should be protected as an important step forward in the fight against deforestation.
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Success: Barbie and Mattel drop deforestation!
Mattel released a global policy that will keep rainforest destruction out of its supply chains.