Berita Arkib
14-09-2009
Palm Oil Producers Want Indonesia\'s Support on Tough EU Biofuel Regulation
14/09/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - The country’s crude palm oil producers have called on the government to defend their interests against the European Union over a draft directive on renewable energy and fuel quality that they said would be detrimental to them.
14-09-2009
Palm kernel sustainably produced, insists Fonterra
14/09/2009 (Radio New Zealand News) - Fonterra is holding to its view that most of the palm kernel imported by its subsidiary RD1 as a supplementary feed for dairy cows is sustainably produced.
14-09-2009
Brisk activity at Port Qasim
13/04/2009 (Daily Times), Karachi - Brisk shipping was recorded for 2nd consecutive at the Port where seven ships carrying containers, furnace oil, palm oil, coal and LPG were accommodated berths at Qasim international containers terminal, iron ore & coal berth, liquid cargo terminal, Engro Vopak terminal and Progas terminal respectively on Friday.
14-09-2009
Body Shop ethics under fire after Colombian peasant evictions
13/09/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - Critics hit out at the eco-friendly cosmetics firm after a supplier cleared Colombian ranch land to grow palm oil– and riot police were brought in to enforce the removal of farmers.
14-09-2009
ASA bans “sustainable†palm oil advert
11/09/2009 (Fair Home) - An advertising campaign claiming that palm oil is sustainable and the “green answer†has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
14-09-2009
A parade of palm oil products
11/09/2009 (Green Living) - Digging into the palm oil debate, an urgent issue to many environmental groups, our reporter Ashley Phillips found herself slipping into a swamp of material.
14-09-2009
IFC suspends investment in palm oil over Wilmar case
10/09/2009 (The Jakarta Post), Jakarta - The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the World Bank, has decided to suspend funding in the palm oil sector, affecting the world's top producer, Wilmar International, pending a review of internal procedures on environmental and social standards.
14-09-2009
UK Wants Green Energy from Palm Oil
11/09/2009 (Electric.co.uk) - The operators of Britain’s first biofuel power plants are now considering using palm oil. However, many are upset with this choice since palm oil was blamed for causing rain forest destruction in south east Asia.
10-09-2009
\'Sustainable palm oil\' advert false, says watchdog
10/09/2009 (Friends of the Earth Europe), Brussels – Friends of the Earth has welcomed a ruling yesterday, by the UK advertising watchdog, that describing palm oil as “sustainably produced†is false advertising.
10-09-2009
World Bank freezes funding for Fonterra’s palm oil partner pending review
10/09/2009 (BusinessWire) – The World Bank has frozen new funding for Fonterra Cooperative Group’s Indonesian palm kernel supplier pending a review into environmental and social sustainability practices of the sector.
10-09-2009
Malaysians fouling it on palm oil
10/09/2009 (The Malay Mail) - SEVERAL local oil palm plantation companies have come under fire in Indonesia for violating human rights and the environment, Indonesian online news portal VIVAnews reported on Sept 8.
09-09-2009
\'Sustainable\' palm oil campaign banned by ASA
09/09/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - A press campaign making environmental claims about the controversial product Malaysian Palm Oil, including that it is "sustainable", has been banned as misleading by the advertising regulator.