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Carbon & Climate

‘Resilience is not a buzzword’: Palm oil leaders call for industry reset amid global shocks

In the inaugural episode of Eco-Business's new Resilience podcast series, industry leaders say the palm oil sector's ability to weather disruption will depend not on certification alone, but on rethinking the relationships that underpin the entire supply chain.
Podcast on RSPO's new principles and criteria for certifying palm oil as environmentally and socially sustainable.

Food & Agriculture

‘We revised the standard because we should’: What RSPO’s new rules for sustainable palm oil mean for people and planet

EB Studio The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has released new criteria for certifying responsibly grown palm oil. What's changed and how does RSPO respond to criticism that the new standard lowers the bar for deforestation?
Smoke from burning land in Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

EB Studio Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
Palm oil farmers working with Natural Habitats

Food & Agriculture

Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil?

Some environmentalists would argue that there's no such thing as sustainably grown palm oil, because of the crops links to deforestation and human rights abuses. Eco-Business spoke to Monique van Wijnbergen about how palm can be done right.

All #palm oil Podcasts

2 June 2020

Child labour on palm oil plantation

Food & Agriculture

Child labour in palm oil: How can children on plantations be kept safe?

30 October 2019

Smallholders in palm oil industry

Food & Agriculture

After another haze outbreak chokes Southeast Asia, can palm oil smallholders shift to sustainable farming?

3 September 2019

oil palm plantation workers take a rest from work

Food & Agriculture

Where is the palm oil industry on human rights?

11 June 2019

woman oil palm plantation worker

Food & Agriculture

What do RSPO's new standards mean for palm oil and tropical forests?

19 December 2018

peat swamp kampar gp

Carbon & Climate

What does it take to save one of Indonesia's last peatland forests?

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