Sime Darby Proposes African Palm Oil Plantations
Sime Darby, the world’s largest public palm oil producer, has proposed a $2.5 billion plantation that it says will meet high environmental standards. Mohd Bakke Salleh, chief executive of the Malaysian...
View ArticlePalm Oil Giant Agrees to Protect Forests
The world’s second-largest palm oil company has agreed a standard for conservation of Indonesian forests and peatlands, according to non-profit The Forest Trust (TFT). TFT and Golden Agri-Resources...
View ArticleBurger King Dumps Palm Oil Supplier over Land-Use Practices
Burger King will no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after an independent audit showed one of the company’s subsidiaries, SMART, had destroyed rainforests and carbon-dense...
View ArticlePepsiCo Now Traces 90% of Palm Oil Back to the Mill to Ensure Future Supply
Making food systems more sustainable – and thus ensuring a steady supply of the products necessary to food production – is a key factor in the ongoing financial success of food manufacturers, and an...
View ArticlePepsiCo Faces Activist Outrage, Plus Threats of More to Come
PepsiCo is slammed by environmental activist group Rainforest Action Network for "masterful greenwashing." The group tells Pepsi that until it ends its palm oil supply chain "violations," it will...
View ArticleCVS Focuses on the Usual Suspects (Can You Guess the 3 Biggies?)
CVS Health, one of CR Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens in 2016, has joined the dozens of companies that have pledged to reduce product packaging waste by joining the Sustainable Packaging...
View ArticleSamsung Won’t Consort with Korindo; NGOs Claim Credit
Samsung IT says its subsidiary will not pursue any business with the Korean-Indonesian conglomerate Korindo, a company linked to rainforest destruction practices. A petition, launched by SumOfUs.org...
View ArticleCGF Publishes Palm Oil Sourcing Guidelines for Consumer Goods, Retail Industries
The Consumer Goods Forum has published guidelines to help the consumer goods and retail industries to achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. The Sustainable Palm Oil Sourcing Guidelines aim to assist...
View ArticleCargill Avoids 1M Metric Tons of GHG Emissions
Cargill avoided more than 1 million metric tons of fossil-fuel-based greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 by using renewable energy, according to the company’s 2015 corporate responsibility report....
View ArticleCargill, WRI Partner to Manage Forests, Water Risk Across Supply Chains
Cargill and the World Resources Institute (WRI) are teaming up to work across value chains to better manage deforestation and water risk. Under the 2-year partnership, Cargill will use WRI’s...
View Article10 Food and Beverage Companies Commit To Sustainable Palm Oil
A number of food and beverage companies based in Singapore have committed to sourcing sustainable palm oil, including 10 that signed on today. The post 10 Food and Beverage Companies Commit To...
View ArticleGAR-Owned Mills Trace Palm Oil to the Plantation. So Why Should You Care?
Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) says that its 44 own mills have achieved 100% traceability back to the source plantation for its palm oil supply. Why bother? Companies that fail to manage their...
View ArticleIceland Axes Palm Oil from Products – An Important Move, Says Supply Chain...
Leading UK frozen food specialist Iceland plans to axe all palm oil from its own-label products by the end of this year, with 130 products to be reformulated. Moves like this are important to...
View ArticleNew Tool Encourages Monitoring of Working Conditions in Palm Oil Plantations
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and technology company Ulula have partnered to introduce a simplified and inclusive mechanism to report potential workers’ incidents and abuses, and to...
View ArticleRoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Suspends Nestlé Over Lax Reporting
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has suspended Nestlé’s membership over the company’s failure to submit an annual progress report for 2016, and for delivering a 2017 report without the...
View ArticleRoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Reinstates Nestlé
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) reinstated Nestlé’s membership this week after the company submitted a time-bound action plan to achieve 100% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil by 2023....
View ArticleInvestors Demand Better Standards for Sustainable Palm Oil Certification
An in-depth look: Institutional investors, increasingly concerned about the risks of deforestation on their investment portfolios, have called for stronger provisions for certifying the sustainable...
View ArticleJ.M. Smucker Company Rolls Out Global Responsible Sourcing Program
The J.M. Smucker Company’s new 2018 corporate responsibility report outlines how the food and beverage manufacturer is working with suppliers on responsible sourcing. The report also details the...
View ArticleNew Palm Oil Sustainability Standards from RSPO Adopt ‘High Carbon Stock...
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has ratified and adopted new Principles & Criteria standards for certification. The updated Principles & Criteria (P&C) include a number of new...
View ArticleEstée Lauder, BASF Seek Sustainable Sourcing, Improved Practices for Palm Oil...
Two major corporations have announced a new initiative to promote sustainable palm oil practices. BASF, Estée Lauder and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) are partnering with civil society...
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