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16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket.
Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
12/5/2013
Fascinating
peatland ecosystems play a key role in the global cycle -- however urgent action is required to protect them from human impact.
Professor Susan Page, from the Department of Geography will give her Inaugural public lecture, ...
7/4/2013
Neste
Oil, a Finnish energy giant, has announced a new "no deforestation" policy [PDF] for sourcing
palm oil. The company, which is one of the world's largest buyers of
palm oil, had faced criticism from environmentalists for purchasing
palm oil ...
9/2/2013
A couple decades ago just prior to my postgraduate studies at The University of Melbourne I had the privilege of visiting an Indonesian
rainforest. I encourage everyone to spend one night in a tropical
rainforest; its rich array and cacophony of ...
5/2/2013
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on ...
28/11/2012
The European Commission has approved
palm oil-based biodiesel for the renewable fuels standard provided it is certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets social and environmental criteria for
palm oil ...
18/5/2012
The
palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that
palm oil-based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels ...
23/4/2012
A coalition of local and international conservation groups warned last month that orangutans in the Tripa forest on Sumatra island could disappear by the end this year unless action was taken to stop land clearing using fire by plantation ...
27/2/2012
Indonesia's moratorium on new forest concessions alone "does not significantly contribute" to its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent from a projected 2020 baseline, concludes a new analysis by the World Resources Institute ...
24/11/2011
As part of our coverage of the 9th Annual Roundtable Meeting on Sustainable
Palm Oil currently underway in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, mongabay.com is interviewing participants and attendees.
In the following interview, ...
5/11/2011
A new study on greenhouse gas emissions from
oil palm plantations has calculated a more than 50% increase in levels of CO2 emissions than previously thought – and warned that the demand for 'green' biofuels could be costing the ...
2/10/2011
Girl Scouts USA has announced that it will lessen
palm oil in its ubiquitous cookies by using alternatives when possible and cutting overall usage. The organization also committed to purchasing GreenPalm certificates for all of its
palm oil in ...
12/9/2011
Despite numerous promises by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that it would stop, the burning of Indonesia's
rainforest is continuing, to the point where the haze is so thick that schools are closing, airplanes are being diverted and 60 percent ...
20/5/2011
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday finally signed a policy banning the conversion of primary forest and
peatland for two years as part of a government pledge to combat climate change through reducing deforestation.
With the ...
19/5/2011
Indonesia finally signs forest clearing moratorium
* Comes into law after delay from planned Jan start
* Part of $1 billion climate deal with Norway
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Palm firms worry on compensation, green groups not satisfied ...
19/5/2011
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inked into law on Thursday a two-year moratorium on new permits to clear primary forests, part of a $1 billion deal with Norway that could spur projects to cut emissions and slow expansion of ...
15/4/2011
The beauty products giant Avon will purchase enough GreenPalm certificates to meet 100 percent of its
palm oil use.
The move means that Avon can claim all of the
palm oil it is purchasing is going to support the Roundtable on Sustainable ...
17/3/2011
Forest to pulp mill in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Eyes on the Forest presented its case for a stronger moratorium in a report sent to Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of Indonesia's REDD task force, an authority especially directly by ...
2/2/2011
The pictures also show that its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster than its
rainforests.
A report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average ...
1/2/2011
Indonesia set to clear 3 million ha of
rainforest in New Guinea
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry has approved conversion of some 3 million hectares of natural forest in Papua province, on the island of New Guinea, according to new ...
1/2/2011
New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released ...
1/2/2011
New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released ...
1/2/2011
New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released ...
31/1/2011
New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released ...
25/1/2011
Oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. The
palm oil industry maintains its product is "greening the planet" but the reality is more complex.
The commercial shows a typical office setting. A worker sits drearily at a desk, shredding ...