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| | | A coalition of signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has called on palm oil producers to improve practices with the aim of "decoupling palm oil production from deforestation." The PRI's Sustainable Palm Oil Investor Working ... |
| | | | ... initiatives to reform supply chains of commodities that are grown rather than mined to reduce tropical deforestation. Palm oil, timber products, soy and beef will be the first soft commodities targeted under the initiative. The Soft Commodities Compact ... |
| | | | ... responded to a call for disclosure on their exposures to deforestation risk through use of five agricultural commodities - palm oil, soy, biofuels, timber, and cattle products. Those five commodities are responsible for most deforestation, CDP said. ... |
| | | | ... failings that have generated disastrous sustainability accounting and management certification systems. For example, 40% of palm oil is sourced from Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified producers and yet this certification does not pick ... |
| | | | ... signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - including Australian superannuation funds - have called on palm oil companies to comply with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles and Criteria. The signatories - members ... |
| | | | Many major Australian companies have made commitments to convert to using sustainable palm oil, but fulfilling those commitments requires "significant work", according to a report from WWF-Australia and the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFGC). ... |
| | | | ... product barcodes to see if its manufacture (or indeed manufacturer) has employed such modern day evils as child labour, palm oil, trans fats or dirty coal... Grant O'Brien's observations are absolutely right. Point of sale will need to deliver 'responsible ... |
| | | | ... so certified, which is a good thing. An opening highlight is that Woolworths has used 387 tonnes of sustainably-source palm oil, another big number. We don't find out until six pages later that Woolworths used 4,350 tonnes in all. On responsible service ... |
| | | | ... including climate change and the increased likelihood of damaging, catastrophic weather events, "[g]rowing demand for palm oil, soy, beef, and other agri-commodities creates increasing pressure for land, which can impact timberland highest and best use ... |
| | | | ... policies all applied to suppliers of the own brand. The company this year also committed to using only certified sustainable palm oil by 2015 for all private label products. In terms of Woolworths' environmental disclosures, the company reported that ... |
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