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HCS Convergence process concludes
Agreement on Unified Approach to Implementing No Deforestation Commitments.
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Statement on IOI’s response to ‘A Deadly Trade-Off’ report
Greenpeace’s most recent report into the IOI Group, 'A Deadly Trade-Off', found that IOI had been supplying the global market with palm oil from third party palm oil suppliers linked to human rights abuses, deforestation and peatland degradation.
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Greenpeace delivers global anti-haze petition to palm oil giant IOI in Malaysia
Greenpeace has delivered a global petition signed by 300,000 people to the IOI Group in Malaysia, calling on the palm oil company to end its contribution to the regional haze by cutting off all suppliers clearing rainforest for plantations, and by fully protecting peatlands.
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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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Greenpeace statement on law enforcement in forest and peatland fire cases
Jakarta, September 5 2016 -- Indonesia’s response to forest fires is being hampered by a crisis in law enforcement. Not only have police failed to reinstate over a dozen dropped investigations into pulpwood and oil palm plantation companies in Riau [1] but over the weekend an angry mob held fire investigators hostage at a palm…
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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.