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03/11/2009 (Foe.org.au) - Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm plantations, said Friends of the Earth International today during the meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Malaysia.

02/11/2009 (Business Green) - Attempts by the global palm oil industry to enhance its green credentials received a major blow after the UK Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) ruled that adverts for "sustainable" palm oil were misleading.

02/11/2009 (Bio Fuel Daily) - European palm oil buyers who are refusing to purchase expensive eco-friendly palm oil were named and shamed Monday by environmental campaigners WWF International. Only 10 out of the 59 major retailers and manufacturers surveyed in an industry scorecard have lived up to their commitments to buy "sustainable" palm oil which is manufactured according to strict standards, it said.

02/11/2009 (Reuters) - Planned palm oil carbon emission targets will be delayed by at least a year as planters clash with NGOs on calculating the vegetable oil's environmental impact, officials said on Monday.

02/11/2009 (Environmental Leader) - More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its availability late last year, marking the first stages of a viable market for sustainable palm oil, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). In the last two months alone, more than 100,000 tons of palm oil or corresponding certificates were acquired by companies globally, said RSPO.

02/11/2009 (Deforestration Watch.org) - In a report released recently by the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne, Australia called "Palming off livelihoods?: The misguided campaign against palm oil," the IPA analyses the current anti-palm oil campaigns conducted by the likes of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE) and The Palm Oil Action Group (POA) and finds that poverty and not palm oil is the root cause of deforestation and orang-utan population loss.

02/11/2009 (Environmental Leader) - More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its availability late last year, marking the first stages of a viable market for sustainable palm oil, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). In the last two months alone, more than 100,000 tons of palm oil or corresponding certificates were acquired by companies globally, said RSPO.

31/10/2009 (A Greener Festiva.com) - Bearing in mind that many scientists are wary about making long term predictions about climate change, and with a spate of exaggerated headlines trumpeting dangerous climate change science, the need to for accurate scientific evidence into climate change has never been more important. But it now seems that the effect of methane on climate change has been seriously underestimated as scientists have failed to take into account the gas’s reaction with airborne particles called aerosols according to new research from NASA.

30/10/2009 (Biodiesel Magazine) - With more than 4,000 delegates convening in Bangkok to discuss climate change over the next days, World Growth, a nongovernmental organization and palm oil advocate, decided it was the time to launch its campaign. World Growth’s “Palm Oil Green Development Campaign” will focus on “setting the record straight and correcting the falsehoods and misconceptions” propagated by others like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

30/10/2009 (Greenwise) - The sustainable palm oil business received a boost today in the UK with the announcement that United Biscuits has signed a deal to source traceable and certified sustainable palm oil.

29/10/2009 (Bernama), Bangkok - The anti-palm oil campaign by environmental groups is unlikely to have immediate effect on leading Malaysian and Indonesian exporters but could lead to trade and aid restrictions in future, the crop\'s pro-campaign group said Tuesday.

29/10/2009 (Green Planet.net) - Switching to a 100 per cent certified sustainable supply of palm oil in all its own-brand products by 2014 is the goal of the British retailer Sainsbury's after starting using the first certified sustainable oil arrived on the market last year.