Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

JAKARTA — More than a decade after the palm oil industry embraced a pledge to not deforest, clear tropical peatlands, or use exploitative practices, policies to that end now cover most of the global palm oil trade, as major traders, refiners and cons…

How Brands Exploit "Green" Certification Palm Oil Detectives

Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit "green" certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity.

How Government Inaction Turned Sumatra’s Rains Into a National Catastrophe

The Indonesian political system has enabled deforestation through weak oversight, opaque licensing, and regulations designed to favor extractive industries.

Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon "Commodity": Dangerous Greenwashing

Commodifying forests as merely an investment for 'carbon credits' has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!

Palm Oil Is Ruining Kalangala Uganda — Locals Paying the Price Palm Oil Detectives

A catastrophic storm in #Uganda’s Kalangala district left nearly 1,000 households homeless. The real culprit? Rampant #deforestation for #palmoil.

Mondelēz, Oreo and Palm Oil Greenwashing Exposed Palm Oil Detectives

Mondelēz International who make Oreos keep sourcing palm oil from suppliers linked to violence and deforestation. Their RSPO certification is pure greenwash!

Australia urged to sign treaty banning nuclear weapons

There are renewed calls for Australia to sign a treaty ensuring nuclear weapons can't ever be facilitated, stored or manufactured in Australia.

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik

The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Climate: Malaysia must prepare for hot and dry weather with impending El Niño

At least three expected natural phenomena — the El Niño, the start of the southwest monsoon season and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) — are expected to bring hot and dry weather to Malaysia from June to October, potentially resulting in more he…

More than 40 arrests made after UK activists target ‘bee-killing’ pesticides

Environmental activists lock themselves to pesticide barrels in protest outside Syngenta headquarters

New data reveals surge in human rights abuses linked to transition minerals mining

New data released by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that, worldwide, South America has the most abuse allegations associated with large-scale mining for transition minerals over the past 15 years.

L'Oreal Palm Oil Detectives

'Our goal is by 2020 to have none of our products linked to deforestation.' L'Oreal's website statement on palm oil This target has been and gone. Still,

Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon "Commodity": Dangerous Greenwashing

Commodifying forests as merely an investment for 'carbon credits' has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!

Australia's coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case

The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens.

Mondelēz Palm Oil Detectives

Mondelez destroys rainforests, sending animals extinct and release mega-tonnes of carbon into air for so-called "sustainable" palm oil. Boycott them!

Is your ‘sustainable’ super funding fossil fuels or weapons? How to check the fine print

If you care about particular issues – from climate change to weapons of war – it’s worth looking more closely at where your money is really going.

How Brands Exploit “Green” Certification

Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit “green” certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity.

Palm Oil Practices Resemble Colonial Exploitation Palm Oil Detectives

Indonesian palm oil workers expose industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation: land grabbing, bad conditions, ecocide. Systemic change is needed!

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Unmasking Socfin's Destructive Palm Oil Empire in Africa Palm Oil Detectives

An investigation reveals Socfin's exploitation of rubber and palm oil in West Africa, leading to deforestation, landgrabbing, and shocking human rights abuses.

SIAT leaves Nigerian farmers starving, illegally "lease" land Palm Oil Detectives

A 5-month investigation by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke of Sahara Reporters reveals how RSPO member SIAT Nigeria Limited is involved in human rights abuses and land-grabbing on host communities' lands.

Palm oil certification is a green lie Palm Oil Detectives

For decades, the palm oil industry, backed by the RSPO, has misled consumers with the false promise of "sustainable" palm oil.

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)

Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline.

Nestlé Palm Oil Detectives

Nestlé is destroying rainforests, releasing mega-tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, and killing hundreds of endangered species. Once these animals are gone - they are gone for good.

Honduras church massacre exposes "sustainable" palm oil violence

Learn how the Honduras church massacre exposes palm oil violence. 20 peasant workers were murdered by paramilitaries for defending their land

Nestlé Palm Oil Detectives

Nestlé is destroying rainforests, releasing mega-tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, and killing hundreds of endangered species. Once these animals are gone - they are gone for good.

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Indonesia: Acid Attack Against Rights Activist

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto should immediately issue a presidential decree setting up a fact-finding team independent of the military to fully investigate the acid attack against a prominent human rights activist who has criticized the mili…

Certification Schemes Fail to Stop Palm Oil Deforestation Palm Oil Detectives

71 rights groups warn that certification schemes like RSPO and FSC fail to stop deforestation and abuses. Learn why they are called tools of greenwashing.

Molotov cocktail, dead chickens sent to Indonesian government critics, rights groups say

(Corrects paragraph 10 to say a dead chicken was found outside a Greenpeace campaigner's house, not Greenpeace country director's) JAKARTA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the home of an Indonesian government critic, while others h…

Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua Palm Oil Detectives

Colonial palm oil and sugarcane causing the loss of West Papuans' cultural identity. Land grabs force communities from forests, threatening Noken weaving

Family ties expose palm oil rights violations in Indonesia Palm Oil Detectives

An explosive report by the Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) details how Indonesia’s Fangiono family, through a wide corporate web, is linked to ongoing #deforestation, #corruption, and #indigenousrights abuses for #palmoil.

‘Justice is optional’: why Trump’s pardon of Honduran ex-president scares nature defenders

Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists – and the release of Juan Orlando Hernández has reinforced its ‘crisis of impunity’, say critics

Spoiled Fruit: Violence and slavery for "sustainable" palm oil Palm Oil Detectives

C4ADS analysis shows that the food conglomerates that feed millions—including giants such as Nestlé, Cargill, Adani Wilmar, IOI, Olenex and more —continue to enable forced labor through their indiscriminate import of tainted palm oil associated with …

Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples Palm Oil Detectives

Challenge a dangerous colonial myth that West Papua is an 'empty land'. This only serves the colonial domination of Indonesia not ancient tribes living there!