More than 100 days after P&G’s voting shareholders sent an overwhelming message to the company to stop fueling deforestation, P&G still has not announced an action plan.
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Please do your part to protect orangutans and choose to buy products that use only Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO).
Some quick facts about Non-Sustainable Palm Oil (a.k.a. Conflict Palm Oil):
- Conflict palm oil is the primary threat that is currently endangering wild orangutan populations.
- Approximately 50,000 orangutans have died because of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades
- Conflict palm oil is found is approximately half of packaged products (including food items, shampoos, lipsticks, and more!) sold in grocery stores in the US
- Conflict palm oil is used for food products, detergents, cosmetics and biofuel
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations.
Indonesia - which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil - has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand.
Looking to also curb costly fuel imports and its planet-heating emissions, the Southeast Asian country raised the “bio” content in its biodiesel to 30% in late 2019 from 20% the year before, with the rest being fossil fuel.
Indonesia’s palm oil-powered ‘green diesel’ fuels threat to forests
Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations.
Indonesia – which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil – has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand.
Looking to also curb costly fuel imports and its planet-heating emissions, the Southeast Asian country raised the “bio” content in its biodiesel to 30% in late 2019 from 20% the year before, with the rest being fossil fuel.