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Call for the phase out of paraquat and other highly hazardous pesticides: Will RSPO embrace sustainability or profitability?
People, Planet or Profits - Was RSPO’s Sustainability Riddle Answered During its Annual General Assembly?
On International Women's Day, members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil deny women plantation workers their fundamental rights to health and safe working conditions by rejecting the resolution calling for the elimination of paraquat.
Open Letter to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Open Letter to RSPO
RSPO Secretariat Sdn Bhd.
Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Pontianak
May 26, 2011
Attn.
Darrel Webber, Secretary General, RSPO
Ganapathy Ramasamy, Grievance Coordinator, RSPO
CC:
Dato'Lee Yeow Chor, Executive Director, IOI
Hidde van Kersen, Director Sustainability, IOI - Loders Croklaan
Jan Kees Vis, Unilever
Simko Honkanen, Senior Vice President, Neste Oil
Greg Page, CEO, Cargill
Christine Zwahlen, Specialist Standards, Migros
Dear Madam/Sir ,
NGOs: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must not allow IOI Corporation to sell its palm oil as green and sustainable
IOI Corporation, one of Malaysia’s leading producers of palm oil, failed to comply with the terms set by the RSPO Grievance Panel last month says an international coalition of NGOs, who have filed several formal grievances against IOI Corporation, an executive board member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Despite this failure, RSPO granted IOI another 21 day extension.
PAN AP Condemns Nestle's Destructive Palm Oil Practices
Penang, Malaysia. The Pesticide Action Network Asia and Pacific condemns Nestle SA, the multinational food company, for sourcing of palm oil from unsustainable suppliers that continue to destroy rainforests in the wake of a major study by environmental group Greenpeace.
RSPO General Assembly Commits to Protect HCV Areas but Fails to Act on the Issue of Highly Hazardous Pesticides
The annual meeting and sixth General Assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was held in Kuala Lumpur from 1-4 November, 2009. This year's discussions focused on greenhouse gas criteria, land rights, pesticide use and creating demand for certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO).
Lush Cosmetics and Cadbury New Zealand Pull Palm Oil in Response to Consumer Protests
Global climate change and the food crisis are taking centre stage in the international policy arena. Today is World Food Day and in November the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will host the World Summit on Food Security in Rome. In December, Copenhagen will host the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15), which will attempt to produce a viable framework for tackling climate change and the Kyoto Protocol.
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