2009-11-16

Palm Oil Plantation Owners Thwart Efforts to Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions. By Pete Browne, NYTimes, November 6, 2009. "Earlier this month the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, an association of palm oil producers, manufacturers, and environmental groups, concluded its annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a decision not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria for 'sustainable' palm oil... But according to Kenneth Richter, a biofuels campaigner for Friends of the Earth International, even as the roundtable aimed to address the emissions arising from the conversion of forest and peat swamp areas into oil palm plantations, 'attempts to develop appropriate criteria have been frustrated by roundtable members representing Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil growers.'"

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