Berita Arkib

03/12/2007 (Emagazine.com) - The world’s major palm oil producers last week announced that they have created a new certification process to ensure ongoing sustainable production and the protection of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests. While details of the new standards as put forth by the industry-led Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were not disclosed, Reuters reports that participating palm oil producers have agreed to commit to “preserve rainforests and wildlife, avoid conflicts with indigenous people and improve palm oil yields” by early 2008.

29/11/2007 (Biodiesel Magazine) - In 2007, Europe and the United States were the leading biodiesel producers. Heading into 2008, Biodiesel Magazine takes a look at which countries are struggling and which show potential.

28/11/2007 (Mongabay.com) - A lifecycle analysis of biodiesel by Australia\'s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) shows that using palm oil derived from existing plantations can be an effective biofuel feedstock for reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional diesel fuel. However, palm oil sourced from rainforest and peatlands generating emissions 8 to 21 times greater than those from diesel.

29/12/2007 (Time) - On a recent humid morning in Riau, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a young man named Suranto wakes early on a Sunday, wraps a red T shirt around his head and ambles off to the fields to work. Suranto isn't a local; he has come from northern Sumatra because there are jobs in Riau. The forests and peatlands of the area are being transformed into plantations, and workers are being paid to plant tens of thousands of young oil-palm trees in fields stripped bare of their native vegetation by burning. As Suranto stoops and digs one hole after another amid the blackened stumps of an old tropical forest, he looks like a camp follower picking through the detritus of a still-smoldering battlefield.

03/12/2007 (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) - Bio fuels are controversial. Proponents point to their climate neutral character; the growing plants have already absorbed the carbon dioxide released during burning, but opponents point out that the production of bio fuels carries enormous societal costs and causes ecological damage. Let\'s weigh the pros and cons.

02/12/2007 (Daily Times), Kuala Lumpur - Shares of plantation-to-energy group Sime Darby surged nearly 25 percent on Friday after relisting in Malaysia, making it the world’s largest listed palm-oil firm as investors ride a sustained commodities boom.

03/12/2007 (Forbes), Banglore - Moody's Investors Service said it has maintained a stable rating outlook for the Asian palm oil industry as it sees favourable prospects for the sector over the coming year from positive pricing and demand trends.

02/12/2007 (The China Post) - Indonesia -- PT Astra Agro Lestari, Indonesia's biggest agricultural company by market value, raised its palm oil production forecast for this year by 6 percent to more than 900,000 metric tons as rains benefited crops.

04/12/2007 (Bangkok Post) - Jatropha farmers want the Energy Ministry to guarantee the buying price of pure jatropha oil at a minimum of 35 baht per litre, to promote the production of biodiesel from non-food crops. The price guarantee would help attract farmers to expand plantations for jatropha, a cactus-like plant, to one million rai in three years from 100,000 rai, making more supply available to biodiesel makers, said Phichai Tinsuntisook, chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries' renewable energy industry club.

03/12/2007 (Reuters), Mumbai - India left tariff values unchanged for six palm group oils and crude soybean oil, a Central Board of Excise and Customs notification said late on Monday.

02/12/2007 (Sydney Morning Herald) - A Finnish firm plans to build the world's largest bio-diesel plant in Singapore to convert palm oil into fuel for cars, trucks and other vehicles.

01/12/2007 (Xinhua), HELSINKI - The Finnish company Neste Oil planned to build the world's largest bio-diesel plant in Singapore, Finnish media reported Saturday