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Palm oil production in Indonesia Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world’s supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over 34.5 million tons of palm oil, and exported nearly 73% of it. Oil palm plantations…
Palm oil production in Indonesia
Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over 34.5 million tons of palm oil, and exported nearly 73% of it. Oil palm plantations stretch across 12 million hectares, and is projected to reach 13 million by 2020.
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Press releases | WWF China
WWF Response to the First Information Publicity for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Poyang Lake Water Control Project: Also For A Lake of Clean Water, Please Choose No-Dam-Nor-Sluicegate Alternatives Instead. On November 23rd, 2016, Water Resources Department of Jiangxi province made an announcement in ...
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Liberian study shows plantations do not add up | Global
Answers to these questions cannot be found in Liberia. As such, in 2015 Global Witness commissioned a study to provide the Government of Liberia and affected communities much-needed data about who might win and who might lose as a result of a plantation. This study was undertaken by Sync Consult Limited, a Ghanaian economic consultancy, and focused on the Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) oil palm ...
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Sustainable Palm Oil - Olam
Our Sustainable Palm Oil Policy and our Living Landscapes Policy set out our commitment and vision for oil palm plantations to coexist with natural ecosystems and communities in carefully planned and managed landscapes, and ultimately to have a net positive impact. We are fully supportive of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and we are committed to working towards a traceable and ...
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Palm Oil: Opportunities to live up to our commitments
Palm Oil and EU's Commitment. By Vincent Guérend, EU Ambassador to Indonesia. Much has been written and said in recent months about a purported European Union (EU) ban on palm oil, retaliatory measures leading to trade wars and how the EU would undermine Indonesia's efforts to reduce poverty or promote sustainability.
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Oil and the environment - U.S. Energy Information
Although petroleum products make life easier, finding, producing, and moving crude oil may have negative effects on the environment. Technological advances in exploration, production, and transportation of oil and enforcement of safety and environmental laws and regulations help to avoid and reduce these effects. Technology helps reduce the ...
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Indonesia government addresses deforestation ... - UNDP
Indonesia’s government, including the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Forestry and Environment, held key palm oil sector talks this week in Jakarta with multinational companies, and associations representing thousands of farmers, to identify ways to increase smallholder palm oil productivity and eliminate deforestation from the country’s palm oil supply chain.
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Killings of land and environmental ... - Global Witness
Global Witness is calling on governments in affected countries to urgently intervene to: Increase protection for land and environmental activists at risk of violence, intimidation or threats; Investigate crimes, including their corporate and political masterminds as well as the triggermen, and bring perpetrators to justice
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Golden Agri Resources and Sustainability | Yale School
While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades that this tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component of many products, palm oil can be found in cookies, in chocolates, in soaps, in shampoos, and even in biofuel. This wide range of uses has stimulated cultivation and oil extraction; annual global ...
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Study on the environmental impact of palm oil consumption
Study on the environmental impact of palm oil consumption and on existing sustainability standards 2017 EUR EN Report prepared by: 2017 EUR EN Study on the environmental impact of palm oil consumption and on existing sustainability standards . Final Report . LEGAL NOTICE . The information and views set out in this study are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official
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The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation
Oil palm is currently grown in 43 countries so understanding the environmental impacts at a global level may help in understanding differences in development patterns that have led to deforestation. Fig 1B shows the percent growth in oil palm harvested area from 2003–2013.
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The Environmental Impact of Palm Oil Liberty Project
Palm oil is used in instant noodles, processed breads, lipstick, ice cream, and shampoo, and is the most widely-consumed vegetable oil on the planet. It's an extremely versatile substance, and while many Americans are unaware of its ubiquitousness, it's a virtual guarantee that you've eaten or used a product containing palm oil at some point in your life.
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Palm oil production: what are the social and environmental
2013-07-04· Palm oil production: what are the social and environmental impacts? Palm oil is tainted by environmental destruction and poor working conditions
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Life cycle assessment of five vegetable oils ScienceDirect
The study compares the environmental impacts of palm oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil and peanut oil. These five oils are among the six largest oils in the world in terms of global production volume, which is illustrated in Fig. 1.Palm kernel oil is produced in larger volumes than peanut oil, but since this oil is a joint co-product of palm oil, it is not considered separately.
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The Environmental Cost of Palm Oil EatingWell
Read about the environmental impacts of palm oil plus what you can look for at the grocery store. Palm oil is showing up in foods from pizza to pastries. Palm oil is now the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, estimated to be in half of all U.S. supermarket products. It's cheap, versatile
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Social and environmental impact of palm oil
Malaysia has initiated its own environmental assessment on oil palm industry based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approaches. LCA has been applied to assess the environmental impact of production of oil palm seedlings, oil palm fresh fruit bunches, crude palm oil, crude palm kernel oil and refined palm oil.
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Since the outbreak of the global palm oil crisis in 2007-2008, SGSOC became interested in the agro-processing industry, particularly the cultivation of oil palms. • Social Impact Assessment, • Environmental and Social Impact Assessment,
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The Impact of Palm Oil Cultivation in South East Asia
Palm oil has become part of our daily lives, but a recent study by EPFL and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) serves as a reminder that intensive farming of this crop has a major impact on the environment. Both short- and long-term solutions exist, however.
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The local impacts of oil palm expansion in Malaysia
The local impacts of oil palm expansion in Malaysia An assessment based on a case study in Sabah State Awang Ali Bema Dayang Norwana Rejani Kunjappan Melissa Chin George Schoneveld Lesley Potter Rubeta Andriani. The local impacts of oil palm expansion in Malaysia An assessment based on a case study in Sabah State Awang Ali Bema Dayang Norwana World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF
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Journal of Oil Palm & The Environment JOPEH
used to study the environmental aspects of products. For example, the environmental impacts in the different parts of the supply chain of palm oil have been identified for the production in the nursery1, fresh fruit bunch2, crude palm oil3, palm kernel oil4, refined palm oil5 and palm
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Palm oil production in Indonesia
Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over 34.5 million tons of palm oil, and exported nearly 73% of it. Oil palm plantations stretch across 12 million hectares, and is projected to reach 13 million by 2020.
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What's worse than palm oil for the environment? Other
Environmental science and conservation news. Mongabay Series: Global Palm Oil, Indonesian Palm Oil What’s worse than palm oil for the environment? Other vegetable oils, IUCN study
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Environmental Impacts of Oil Palm –Practical
Environmental Impacts of Oil Palm –Practical Considerations in Defining Sustainability for Impacts on the Air, Land and Water S. LORD AND J. CLAY Simon Lord Jason Clay Head of Research Vice President New Britain Palm Oil LTD Centre for Conservation Innovation Dami Oil palm Research Station World Wildlife Fund PO Box 165, Kimbe 1250 24th Street NW West New Britain Province,
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Palm Oil WWF
EXPOSING THE IMPACTS OF PALM OIL, ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND DAMAGING INDUSTRIES ON EARTH In depth article on the impacts of palm oil on Sumatra’s environment, people and wildlife, focusing on the heroes of Eyes on the Forest and their valiant and dangerous work to undertake to expose illegal palm oil producers. READ MORE
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Oil palm plantations are not good for wildlife and endangered species like the orangutan, the Sumatran rhino, the pygmy elephant of Borneo, and the Sumatran tiger are all threatened by development for oil palm. 2.1 Environmental Impacts of the Palm oil Industry in Malaysia
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Palm oil deforestation for everyday products
2020-03-29· Palm oil is literally everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It’s a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
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Decentralization and the environment: Assessing
Indonesia’s oil palm expansion during the last two decades has resulted in widespread environmental and health damages through land clearing by fire and peat conversion, but it has also contributed to rural poverty alleviation. In this paper, we examine the role that decentralization has played in the process of Indonesia’s oil palm development, particularly among independent smallholder
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Palm oil and biodiversity conservation IUCN
At the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai‘i in September 2016, IUCN’s Members established the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force to undertake a situation analysis on oil palm and biodiversity conservation in the context of sustainable development. The task force released its report in June 2023.. Learn More. Situational analysis [ also available in French ]
Get PriceEnvironmental sustainability issues in the food–energy
Breakfast cereals are one of the most important foods consumed in many countries, but their environmental impacts are currently unknown. Therefore, this study explores the environmental sustainability issues in the food–energy–water nexus by considering breakfast cereals manufactured by one of the world’s largest producers, Kellogg Europe
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Inside Unilever's sustainability myth New Internationalist
2017-04-13· (Segregated sustainable palm oil is certified sustainable palm oil which is segregated from non-certified oil at every stage of the supply chain.) And yet the company claimed it was sourcing all of its palm oil sustainably as early as 2012. There is more to this, as a footnote on the company website explains. In 2015 only 19 per cent of the palm oil used by Unilever came from certified
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R E P O R T WordPress
on palm oil and deforestation of rainforests (2016/2222(INI)) Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Rapporteur: Kateřina Konečná M O T I O N F O R A E U R O P E A N PA R L I A M E N T R E S O L U T I O N E X P L A N ATO RY S TAT E M E N T
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WHO The palm oil industry and noncommunicable diseases
Box 2. Search strategy for the rapid review of the literature on the impact of palm oil on the environment, consumers and health. We made an online search via the PubMed® database using the keyword “palm oil” in conjunction with relevant terms (AND “environment” OR ”pollution” OR ”climate change” OR “consumer” OR “health” OR “disease”).
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RSPO and MSPO for Sustainable Palm Oil BSI Group
RSPO and MSPO for Sustainable Palm Oil Palm oil is an important commodity and a versatile raw material for both food and non-food industries. Driven by global demands, the past few decades have seen rapid expansion of palm oil production and cultivation leading to degradation of land, water and ecological impact.
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The CAP has devastating effects on developing countries
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) penalises local farmers and harms the environment. It continues to contribute to the injection of palm oil in milk powder, exports of soft wheat to the
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Palm oil and soy oil for biofuels linked to high rates
A significant share of palm oil and soybean expansion happens on rainforests, forests, peatland and savannahs (land with high carbon stocks), according to a new study reviewing the latest scientific evidence on deforestation. Based on the most recent available satellite assessments, the report estimates that 31% of palm oil expansion globally takes place on forests (1), while
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5 Environmental Effects and Tradeoffs of Biofuels
Only studies that specifically estimate the environmental effects resulting from the marginal increase in fuel production caused by RFS2 are appropriate for assessing the environmental effects of increasing biofuel production due to its implementation. Studies that have used consequential LCA as a means of quantifying the marginal impact of increased biofuel production are sparse and much
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A New EPA Report Shows That Environmental Racism is
A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency finds that people of color are much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air—even as the agency seeks to roll back
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