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Chinese firms’ growing influence in palm oil value chain will endure despite global volatilities: RSPO China head
Chinese companies now want to benchmark themselves against their international peers for ESG practices, says Fang Lifeng, head of China for Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He shares insights into RSPO’s decade of presence in the emerging market, as palm oil buyers and industry experts convene at a forum in Guilin this week.
The city is a step closer to implementing its own Producer Responsibility Scheme. Experts at the launch of impact documentary WASTED in Hong Kong said the city’s beverage container return rebate was a good starting point
Carbon & Climate
New dams cast doubt on Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects
Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects. The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating into these same forests.
Policy & Finance
Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA
EB Studio
“Homeshoring”, or moving production back to a company’s home country, to counter geopolitical tensions is driving demand for low-cost migrant workers, raising labour risks in markets once deemed “low risk”, says the global assurance firm.
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