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Adriana Trujillo

Greenpeace to P&G: Enough with the 'Dirty' Palm Oil | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Greenpeace has launched another massive campaign, this time demanding Procter & Gamble end its role in rainforest destruction through its careless sourcing of palm oil. A yearlong investigation into "P&G's Dirty Secret" shows the maker of dozens of everyday household and personal care products is sourcing palm oil from companies connected to substantial clearance of endangered orangutan habitat in Indonesia
Adriana Trujillo

Greenpeace Hangs Banners At Procter & Gamble Headquarters To Protest Deforestation - 0 views

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    The environmental organization says the 60-foot banners on P&G's two towers were in protest of the consumer products company's use of palm oil from a supplier that Greenpeace says is linked to tropical forest destruction in Indonesia.
Adriana Trujillo

Over 75% of Unilever's factories achieve zero non-hazardous waste to landfill | Media centre | Unilever Global - 0 views

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    London/Rotterdam, 9 April 2014. Unilever announced today that all its factories across Europe have joined those in North America in achieving zero non-hazardous waste to landfill. With similar achievements in countries from Argentina to Indonesia, it means more than three-quarters of the company's global factory network no longer sends such waste to landfill, up from 20% just three years ago.
Del Birmingham

Wilmar opens palm oil supplies to scrutiny to protect forests | Reuters - 0 views

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    Wilmar International Ltd. , the world's largest palm oil processor, opened its supply chains to outside scrutiny on Thursday in what environmentalists called an unprecedented step to help safeguard tropical forests. Singapore-based Wilmar said it would give outsiders, from customers to environmentalists worried about deforestation, access to online maps showing where it buys palm oil at more than 800 mills in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Adriana Trujillo

Unilever adjourns palm oil sourcing through Sawit Sumbermas Sarana due to sustainability breach - 0 views

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    Unilever has suspended sourcing from its palm oil supplier Sawit Sumbermas Sarana, following allegations that the supplier is involved in ongoing deforestation and peatland clearance in Indonesia.
Adriana Trujillo

HSBC Investigates Major Palm Oil Supplier Over Deforestation Allegations - 0 views

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    HSBC is launching an investigation into Noble Plantations, an Indonesian company, after claims that the company plans to clear 69.5 square miles of rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. The investigation comes after Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency presented evidence of the company's plans to clear the land for palm oil plantations.
Del Birmingham

Greenpeace: Paper giant cut forests during conservation pact | Fox Business - 0 views

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    Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world's largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.
Adriana Trujillo

IOI Pledges to Clean Up Supply Chain One Year after RSPO Suspension | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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    A year after being suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and dropped by companies such as Unilever, Mars, Nestlé and Kellogg for clearing peatlands in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group has announced plans to eliminate deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain. In response, Greenpeace has suspended its active campaign to give IOI time to show it is serious about reform.
Adriana Trujillo

Facebook, Microsoft Mobilize $50 Million for Renewable Energy Microgrids | Greentech Media - 0 views

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    Facebook and Microsoft partnered with investment company Allotrope Partners to "mobilize" $50 million for sustainable energy efforts in poor communities through a finance facility. By pulling in grants and loans, the Microgrid Investment Accelerator program will fund renewable microgrid projects in India, Indonesia and Africa between 2018 and 2020.
Del Birmingham

What to expect for rainforests in 2017 - 0 views

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    While 2016 lacked the drama of Indonesia's 2015 fire and haze crisis, surging deforestation in Earth's largest rainforest and ongoing destruction of forests for industrial plantations meant that it was far from a quiet year for the planet's rainforests. So what's ahead for 2017? Here are eight things we'll be closely watching in the new year.
Adriana Trujillo

A startup seeks to turn palm oil waste in Southeast Asia into profit - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

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    Palm oil production is a big business in Malaysia and Indonesia, but environmental pollution is one of the industry's biggest problems. A Silicon Valley company hopes to turn that problem into a profit by converting wastes from palm oil production into fuel
Del Birmingham

Logging kingpin linked to kidnapping, violent assault seeks legitimacy via IPO - 0 views

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    A businessman whose company kidnapped and violently assaulted environmentalists investigating illegal logging in a national park is set to earn millions of dollars from Thursday's initial public offering of Sawit Sumbermas Sarana, a palm oil company with holdings in Indonesian Borneo. Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1211-ssms-ipo.html#UUOhVkZxx6UTk8Rp.99
Adriana Trujillo

APP to support the protection and restoration of one million hectares of forest in Indonesia | APP - 0 views

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    Asia Pulp and Paper will restore and conserve 1 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest, targeting threatened species like orangutans, elephants, and tigers. The plan was developed with input from Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and other environmental groups.
Adriana Trujillo

Endangered Orangutans Gain From Eco-Friendly Shifts in Palm Oil Market - 0 views

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    Deforestation due to palm oil production is the single biggest threat to orangutans, but new deforestation-free standards that cover about 60% of the industry could help secure the primate's future. "We can now break the link between palm oil and the extinction of orangutans," says Michelle Desilets, executive director of the Orangutan Land Trust.
Del Birmingham

WWF and Partners Secure Protection for Critical Sumatran Rain Forest - Press Releases on CSRwire.com - 0 views

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    Through an ambitious project model combining innovative financing approaches with traditional conservation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) and The Orangutan Project (TOP) will join forces with local communities to actively manage the 100,000 acres of former logging forest, known as Bukit Tigapuluh (known as Thirty Hills), to protect rather than exploit the land's natural resources.
Del Birmingham

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation - 0 views

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    The potential for new laws governing the use of forest resources this year in Cameroon promises an opportunity to stem the rapid loss of forest in the biologically diverse country. But the changes may ultimately not be what's needed to save Cameroon's forests. Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0625-gfrn-cannon-cameroon.html#w6L2jPe1cgOgqGYr.99
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