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

Posted on 12:32 AM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Open Letters, Papua, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
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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Posted on 04:55 AM in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
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

(Deutsch) Palmöl: Indonesiens Meeresminister geht an Land

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Posted on 03:26 AM in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), labour, German-Indonesian relations, Energie, Indonesia, Joko Widodo, military, palm oil, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, economy and business

Deutsche Bank must re-evaluate engagement in Maybank

Jakarta, Bremen, Berlin, 28. February 2018

https://www.watchindonesia.de/wp-content/uploads/180228-Letter-to-DB-on-Maybank.pdf

To: Mr. Stuart Lewis
Deutsche Bank Chief Risk Officer
stuart.lewis@db.com

Cc: Mr. Werner Steinmüller
Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer Asia Pacific
werner.steinmuller@db.com

Dear Mr Lewis,

A report launched today shows that Deutsche Bank is still profiting from controversial palm oil companies, despite its own policies and its participation in the development of the so-called “soft commodities compact”.

The report ‘Maybank: the single largest palm oil financier’ [1], by TuK Indonesia and Profundo, ... read more

Posted on 10:48 PM in Agro Fuels, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: Bank, Germany, Indonesia, land rights, palm oil, plantations, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), environment and climate, economy and business

So predictable but still unstoppable?

In the spotlight, January 05, 2018

by Yvonne Kunz

 

Oil palm plantations seem to be a pest to Indonesian forests. Sumatra and Kalimantan are already plastered with vast plantations, islands that used to be vastly covered by forests. Research on the ecological and socio-economic impacts of this transformation has been conducted for years and years. While results are often complex and not always finding a common answer, data for the affected regions at the same time reveal ... read more

Posted on 01:17 AM in "In the Spotlight", Indonesia, Papua, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, palm oil, Papua, plantations, rain forest destruction, Sumatra, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, environment and climate