Survival of nearly 10,000 orangutans in Borneo oil palm estates at stake

Survival of nearly 10,000 orangutans in Borneo oil palm estates at stake

news.mongabay.com 4 mins read Borneo Futures orangutan researchers Erik Meijaard and Marc Ancrenaz report on the results of their new study of 2,717 plantations on Borneo which provides … Read More

MSPO certification mandatory by 2019

MSPO certification mandatory by 2019

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Discussing the future: Mah (third from left) meeting members of the European Parliament on issues concerning the palm oil industry. With him are (from left) Paolo Russo, Dr Barbara Kappel, Inese Vaidere, … Read More

HSBC revamps deforestation policy after Greenpeace investigation

HSBC revamps deforestation policy after Greenpeace investigation

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21 February 2017, source edie newsroom HSBC has launched a new zero-deforestation policy following a Greenpeace investigation which linked the banking corporation to organisations that have been destroying Indonesia’s rainforests. Greenpeace … Read More

For a better Borneo, new map reveals how much terrain has changed

For a better Borneo, new map reveals how much terrain has changed

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Atlas of Deforestation and Industrial Plantations in Borneo

Pledges In addition to providing data on deforestation and land use for individual land concessions, the tool … Read More

Latin America palm oil production doubled since 2001 without massive uptick in deforestation

Latin America palm oil production doubled since 2001 without massive uptick in deforestation

news.mongabay.com 3 mins read The area of land planted with oil palm has doubled in Latin America since 2001, but a new study finds that most plantations … Read More

Cattle pastures and other degraded lands become new oil palm plantations

Cattle pastures and other degraded lands become new oil palm plantations

phys.org 3 mins read A new study published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters by researchers at the University of Puerto Rico offers the first regional look … Read More

HSBC: what they’ve said about funding deforestation, and why it’s wrong

HSBC: what they’ve said about funding deforestation, and why it’s wrong

www.greenpeace.org.uk 6 mins read All rights reserved. Credit: Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace Over three weeks ago, we exposed how HSBC is funding palm oil companies that are tearing up … Read More

Good year, bad year: 2016 was challenging for RSPO; Will it fare better in 2017?

Good year, bad year: 2016 was challenging for RSPO; Will it fare better in 2017?

www.foodnavigator.com 4 mins read © iStock The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) faced a number of well-publicised challenges last year. Consumers remain confident in … Read More

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

news.mongabay.com 6 mins read More and more corporate palm oil users are promising to clean up their supply chains. But a new report says firms may have underestimated … Read More

The Land Grabbers

The Land Grabbers

www.jacobinmag.com 9 mins read 02.02.2017 Brazil United States Guatemala 254

Select a text size: Small Medium Large The Land Grabbers Linda Farthing Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of … Read More