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New HSBC ‘no deforestation’ policy first step towards sustainable palm oil finance
London – HSBC has just published a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy covering its financing of palm oil companies. [1]
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Withdrawing from APRIL’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee
Greenpeace has suspended its engagement with APRIL’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) with immediate effect.
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Comment on labour abuses in Wilmar’s palm oil operations
Find out Greenpeace Southeast Asia's official comment on labour abuses in Wilmar’s palm oil operations
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HCS Convergence process concludes
Agreement on Unified Approach to Implementing No Deforestation Commitments.
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Time for IOI to lead from the front
IOI released a statement concerning the Greenpeace demand that it hold it suppliers to account for destroying Indonesia’s forests and failing to prevent fires.
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100,300 deaths from Indonesia’s fires during 2015, new study estimates
A groundbreaking Harvard and Columbia university study estimates that 100,300 premature deaths resulted across three countries from last year’s devastating Indonesian forest fire crisis.
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As dangerous business practices go unpunished, Indonesia’s fires and haze return
New maps released today by Greenpeace for Riau and West Kalimantan show that many fires are occurring on industrial plantation concessions in the same areas that burned last year.
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Response to IOI Group policy from Greenpeace
The IOI Group published a new Palm Oil Sustainability Policy and Sustainability Implementation Plan on 8 August 2016 that still falls short of the commitments Greenpeace expect of responsible palm oil producers and traders.
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Greenpeace welcomes moves to reduce coal use in the Philippines
Greenpeace Philippines welcomed the Climate Change Commission recently released Commission Resolution 2016-001, which calls for a “national policy review” of the country’s energy policy in order to reduce the country’s dependence on coal, and transition to renewable energy.
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IOI: Dropped by world’s largest food company and targeted by a score of NGOs, pressure mounts on palm oil giant
Indonesian, Malaysian and international NGOs including Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and others have sent a letter to a hundred global brands and traders with an urgent request for remaining customers to immediately cut ties with the controversial palm oil supplier.
