Archived News

28/10/2009 (WWF) - Two well know Scottish food firms, Walkers and Nairn’s have thrown their weight behind a global scheme to prevent the destruction of tropical forests by supporting sustainably produced palm oil.

28/10/2009 (Food Business Review.com) - UB aims to source 100% certified and sustainable palm oil by 2011

28/10/2009 (ClimateWire) - A British consortium of companies and environmental groups used to certify sustainable sources of palm oil is divided over the need to control carbon dioxide emissions as part of its standards.

28/10/2009 (WWF) - A handful of companies are showing real progress in their commitments to buy and use sustainable palm oil, yet the majority, contrary to their commitments, are failing to buy the product in spite of its availability.

28/10/2009 (Green Biz.com) - Out of 59 major retailers operating in Europe, only 10 are showing any progress on making their palm oil usage as susatainable as possible, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.

27/10/2009(Food Biz Daily) - Global food giant Nestle has announced its commitment to using only Certified Sustainable Palm Oil by 2015, the year when it said sufficient quantities were expected to be available.

27/10/2009 (2sustain.com) - Following a detailed review of its palm oil supply chain, Nestle announced yesterday that it is committed to using only Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) by 2015, when sufficient quantities are expected to be available.

27/10/2009 (WWF), Gland, Switzerland – The majority of European palm oil buyers are failing to buy certified sustainable palm oil, despite its availability and the previous commitments by many companies to purchase it, according to a first assessment by WWF.

27/10/2009 (Ceo palm Oil.com) - Ms Hillary Chew is a respected environmental campaigner for the Star and should not write words as though they were from my statements. I never said that oil palm plantations are good habitats for orang utans. Additionally, I have never seen statements by the oil palm industry insisting that the oil palm plantations have no less biological diversity than the natural forests. These are Ms Chew’s own words.

27/10/2009 (Lohas) - Coconut, palm and palm kernel oils are found in commercial cakes, cookies and snack foods. These tropical oils are solid at room temperature and contain a great deal of saturated fat: coconut oil, 92 percent, palm kernel oil, 82 percent and palm oil, 50 percent. The American Heart Association recommends substantially reducing intake of saturated fat because it tends to raise cholesterol levels.[1] High blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD)[2] and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that more than 34 million adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol (over 240 mg/dL). Palm oil has long been known to promote heart disease, however there are other reasons to avoid products made with palm oil.

26/10/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - Eating meat could become as socially unacceptable as drink-driving because of the impact it has on global warming, according to a senior authority on climate change.

26/10/2009 (Deforestration Watch) - In a poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, released Thursday, the number of people saying there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has gotten warmer over the past few decades is down from 71 percent in April of last year and from 77 percent when Pew started asking the question in 2006. The number of people who see the situation as a serious problem also has declined.