RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector

November 12, 2018. Open Statement

read as PDF: www.watchindonesia.org/wp-content/uploads/Declaracion-con-firmas-ENG.pdf

During its 14 years of existence, RSPO – the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – has failed to live up to its claim of „transforming” the industrial palm oil production sector into a so-called „sustainable” one. In reality, the RSPO has been used by the palm oil industry to greenwash corporate destruction and human rights abuses, while it continues to expand business, forest destruction and profits.

RSPO presents itself to the public ... read more

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(Deutsch) Palmölsiegel auf dem Prüfstand

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Posted on 11:19 PM in Agro Fuels, Activities, Human Rights, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), ArbeiterInnen, Indonesia, palm oil, plantations, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), environment and climate

RSPO Principles and Criteria Draft (v2)

July 16, 2018

Dear RSPO Members and Consumer Goods Manufacturing Companies:

We are writing to you regarding the proposed revisions to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles & Criteria (P&C). The second draft was released recently for public consultation, ending on August 4, 2018.

The undersigned NGOs are concerned about existing deficiencies in the proposed requirements. Stronger reforms are needed to bring the P&C in line with the ‘no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation’ (NDPE) standards adopted by ... read more

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Tags: ArbeiterInnen, gender, Indonesia, human rights, Papua, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

(Deutsch) Palmöl im Tank: Offener Brief an Wirtschaftsminister Altmaier

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Posted on 10:01 PM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Open Letters, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), ArbeiterInnen, Government of Germany, European Union (EU), Indonesia, carbon, human rights, palm oil, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Anti-Palmöl Ideologie in Europa und norwegischer Fisch aus der EU

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Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), ArbeiterInnen, poverty, European Union (EU), illegal logging, Indonesia, land rights, NGO, palm oil, plantations, rain forest destruction, Sulawesi, environment and climate, economy and business