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Twenty-four out of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food and personal care industries have inadequate commitments or lack commitments altogether for sourcing sustainable palm oil for their products, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Palm oil shipments from Indonesia, the world's largest producer, climbed to the highest level in eight months in October as a decline in supplies of substitute oils in India and China spurred demand from the biggest buyers.

Activists are planning a rally at Kellogg Co. headquarters in Battle Creek to urge the cereal giant to stop using palm oil in its products.

The world's biggest palm oil company, which supplies to consumer giants including Unilever and Procter & Gamble, is pledging to halt deforestation

Greenpeace urges Indonesian palm oil producers to stick with zero deforestation commitment

Green cleaning products company Ecover will launch an algae-based laundry detergent in Europe later this year. The product eliminates the need for palm oil, a common ingredient in traditional detergents.

In a Greenpeace report, Sumatran tigers are on the brink of extinction due to illegal oil-palm concessions.

Large palm oil companies that have promised to act ethically have been accused of land grabbing, ignoring human rights and exploiting labour in their African and Asian plantations.

The Consumer Goods Forum ("CGF") today announced publication of the first-ever 'Sustainable Palm Oil Sourcing Guidelines' (the "Guidelines"). This publicly available document is an important step in helping the consumer goods and retail industries to achieve zero net deforestation by 2020, as outlined in the CGF's Deforestation Resolution. 

This week, stakeholders continued to take action to pressure companies into turning over a new leaf when it comes to their sourcing practices - around what has become known as Conflict Palm Oil.

Colgate-Palmolive has issued a new Policy on No Deforestation, including a pledge to achieve full traceability of its Palm oil supply back to the plantation by 2015.

Large investors withdraw a shareowner resolution after the packaged food giant agrees to remove tree-cutting palm oil suppliers from its supply chain.

The most recent corporation to join the growing movement toward deforestation-free palm oil sourcing is ConAgra, whose brands, the company stated, can be found in 99 percent of American households. 

ConAgra Foods is the latest food giant to agree to eliminate any palm oil supplier engaged in deforestation. The company made the commitment in response to a shareholder proposal filed by Green Century Capital Management and the New York State Common Retirement Fund.

The environmental activist group SumOfUs has stolen some of the thunder from PepsiCo's crowdsourced "Crash the Super Bowl" campaign by launching a parody Doritos ad criticizing PepsiCo's palm-oil policies. PepsiCo said the ad, which racked up almost a million views on YouTube, was "focused on fiction rather than facts."

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has terminated or suspended more than 100 of its members for failing to file annual reports on their sustainability practices. Environmentalists praised the association for holding its members accountable. "The duty to continuously improve performance is central to the founding vision of the RSPO, and this applies not only to the organization as a whole but, more importantly, to its individual members," said Adam Harris of the World Wildlife Fund.

Unilever has pledged that by the end of 2014, all of the palm oil the company buys globally will be traceable to known sources.

Mondelez International, Inc. is further pushing for its goal of 100 percent sustainability and complete transparency in its palm oil supply chain, challenging suppliers to commit to concession mapping and act faster to eliminate deforestation, according to the CPG company.

Greenpeace International published a new report on Tuesday accusing Mondelēz International of sourcing palm oil from "rainforest destroyers."

A new report by Greenpeace finds that palm oil suppliers to the world's largest brands have cleared more than 1,300 square kilometres of rainforest - an area the size of the city of Los Angeles - since the end of 2015.