{"id":649,"date":"2018-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/press\/649\/new-standards-for-sustainable-palm-oil-must-be-enforced-immediately\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:34:48","slug":"new-standards-for-sustainable-palm-oil-must-be-enforced-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/press\/649\/new-standards-for-sustainable-palm-oil-must-be-enforced-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"New standards for \u2018sustainable\u2019 palm oil must be enforced immediately, says Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jakarta\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0In response to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspo.org\/ga\/ga15\/Resolutions\/RSPO_P&amp;C_2018.pdf\">voting to incorporate \u2018no deforestation\u2019 standards into its Principles and Criteria (P&amp;C)<\/a>, Kiki Taufik, Head of Greenpeace Indonesia Global Forest Campaign said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdopting no deforestation into the RSPO\u2019s standards is an important step towards breaking the links between certified palm oil and forest destruction. However, the new rules will take at least two years to come into effect and right now numerous RSPO members are destroying rainforests with impunity [1]. RSPO must address this immediately if it is to make a real difference on the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] In September 2018, Greenpeace International\u2019s Final Countdown report exposed significant recent deforestation or other violations by 14 RSPO members or associated parties, including Bumitama Agri Limited (on the RSPO Complaints Panel) and FELDA\/FGV and IOI, both members of the RSPO Board of Governors.\u00a0An additional producer group, Gama Plantation is very closely associated with RSPO member Wilmar International.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong>:<br \/>\nSol Gosetti, International Communications Coordinator, Greenpeace Southeast Asia:\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sol.gosetti@greenpeace.org\">sol.gosetti@greenpeace.org<\/a> , +44 (0) 7380845754<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\u201cNew standards for \u2018sustainable\u2019 palm oil must be enforced immediately\u201d, says Greenpeace\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[82],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forests","tag-palm-oil","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}