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Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

...smallholders through profitable international trade. To its detractors, it is a cause of deforestation and social conflict, a direct threat to endangered species and a contributor to climate change.Wi...

5 Nov 2019

Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

Press Releases / PEFC

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

...smallholders and local communities. “In Myanmar, we are helping stakeholders to use IT at the landscape scale to bring sustainable management to Myanmar’s forests, involving public and pr...

12 Dec 2018

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

Berita / CSR

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

A question corporate sustainability officers will have been asking themselves this year is, does my company value its environmental and social impact enough for my job to survive a pandemic? For many ...

6 Oct 2020

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

What is sustainable rubber?

Bouncy, elastic, compressible and moldable—the unique properties of natural rubber make it one of the most widely used materials, found in products from pencil erasers and birthday balloons to condoms...

21 May 2019

What is sustainable rubber?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

The global agricultural market has been severely shaken by Covid-19. Palm oil is no exception, particularly in India, the world’s largest importer of the commodity.Demand has fallen off a cliff in Ind...

22 Jun 2020

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

...Smallholders represent up to 40 per cent of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations but often have little access to resources to farm sustainably. The palm oil industry has drawn flak for labour rights abus...

2 May 2018

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of t...

18 Sep 2019

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Sprawling urban areas and expanding plantations are placing greater pressure on forests and resources in Asia-Pacific, hurting rural communities and exacerbating the effects of climate change, the Uni...

19 Jun 2019

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Pendapat / Karbon & Cuaca

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

In a recent special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that addressing climate change will require fundamental changes to the way we manage forests and farmland. The ...

16 Sep 2019

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Widodo himself later acknowledged that...

12 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

Workers load a truck with palm fruit at a palm oil plantaion in Nagan raya, Aceh province, Indonesia

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

...smallholders will double their production capacity over the next decade, managing a 60 per cent share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area by 2030. Independent smallholders are thus critical ...

30 Mar 2018

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

...smallholders supply 80 per cent of overall food produced in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Traditional pastoralists are typically highly sustainable producers, but many are facing challen...

22 Apr 2019

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

Financing the green transition

Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global environmental crisis shows e...

17 Oct 2019

Financing the green transition

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

...smallholders who produce fresh fruit bunches for independent mills, making supply chains very hard to manage. Smallholder plantations are known for their low productivity and poor crop quality, which ...

10 Jul 2018

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

...smallholders like Kasno have been left behind, say industry officials. Only 78,000 smallholders are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumer organisations, enviro...

3 Apr 2018

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

A dangerous combination of the development of industrial palm oil and pulpwood plantations on Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, and weakened regulations to protect peat, means that annual toxic...

22 Nov 2019

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

...smallholders in Asia miss out on new, resilient seeds that could improve yields in the face of climate change, according to the Netherlands-based Access to Seeds Foundation. Seeds for diversity Diver...

11 Jun 2019

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

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Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...

23 Oct 2018

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

...smallholders and, like GAR, is aiming for full traceability by the end of 2020. Both Musim Mas and GAR are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry certifier for palm oi...

1 Oct 2019

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

...smallholders by 2020. The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia’s oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by...

16 Apr 2018

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

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Musim Mas stalwart Carolyn Lim joins palm oil rival Golden Agri-Resources

Lim has joined GAR to lead sustainability operations. Rob Nicholls has also left Musim Mas after several years …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Eight global climate tech start-ups to vie for S$4M in funding at The Liveability Challenge 2026

Ideas to keep cities cool and slash emissions were shortlisted in a record-breaking year for entries.
Berita / Tenaga

Renewables shift needed as Iran war exposes Asia’s fragile energy market: experts

As oil and gas firms reap windfall profits from wartime price spikes, regional climate advocates urge governments to …
Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Securing Asean’s food resilience amid the Middle East conflict

The Middle East conflict will have a double-whammy impact on Asean’s fertiliser imports and energy-intensive fertiliser production. The …
Berita / Pegurusan Sisa Kumbahan

Iran war rips through Asia’s plastics market, boosting demand for recycled resin

A "huge" increase in demand for recycled plastic as virgin prices spike is complicated by stock availability, rising …
Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Former WWF sustainable finance head Kristina Anguelova joins The Nature Conservancy

Anguelova will work on establishing policies and partnerships for international carbon trading, based in Singapore.

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