Archived News

02/05/2008 (Economist) - LAST month, your columnist raved about the new generation of lean, clean diesel cars arriving belatedly in America (“Diesel’s second coming”, April 4th 2008), but wondered where they might find their fuel. With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel’s fuel-sipping charms—it delivers about 30% more miles per gallon (MPG) than regular petrol—have created a shortage of diesel fuel around the world.

02/05/2008 (Food Navigator) - Unilever has pledged to use only palm oil certified as sustainable by 2015, while also supporting calls for a moratorium on further deforestation for palm oil in Indonesia.

02/05/2008 (Malaysia Sun) - Unilever says that by 2015 it will only use palm oil made from sustainable sources and not from deforested ground.

02/05/2008 (The Daily Times, Pakistan), Islamabad - Import of five commodities POL products, wheat, palm oil, raw cotton and fertilizer at higher value added $3.074 billion in trade deficit of the country during July-March period of this fiscal year, stats a finance ministry report submitted to the parliament.

02/05/2008 (Herald Sun) - ANGLO-DUTCH food and consumer goods giant Unilever says it will back a moratorium on further palm oil deforestation in Indonesia and intends to use only fully traceable palm oil by 2015.

01/05/2008 (Mongabay.com) - High palm oil prices have forced investors to shelve plans for biodiesel refineries, according to The Wall Street Journal.

01/05/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Last month\'s sustainability conference sponsored by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) revealed a rift between some planters and the industry marketing organization.

01/05/2008 (Gulf Daily News), Manama - Malaysian palm oil exports to Bahrain reached 986 metric tonnes (mt) last year, according to latest reports from the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC).

01/05/2008 (The Peninsula, Qatar), Doha - Palm Oil exports from Malaysia to Qatar have recorded significant growth last year underlining the potential of palm oil in Doha market.

30/04/2008 (Hawkeys Bay) - A thousand-fold rise in imports of a rainforest-destroying feed to prop up New Zealand's burgeoning dairy industry has huge implications for the country's clean and green brand, the Green Party says.

30/04/2008 (The Wall Street Journal). Jakarta, Indonesia - Plans to invest billions of dollars in biodiesel refineries across Southeast Asia have been put on hold as the prices of key raw ingredients -- particularly palm oil -- have shot up amid surging food demand in China and India.

30/04/2008 (The Wall Street Journal) - U.S. and European biofuel producers are singing the blues these days. But that’s nothing compared to the tsunami overwhelming Asian biofuel makers. The good news? There may actually be a silver lining to it all.