Month: August 2018

Investors lobby RSPO: Why didn’t they just join? A group of investors sent a letter to RSPO last week, calling on the certification body to implement tighter standards on deforestation. More specifically, they wrote to the Principles and Criteria Review… Read more

The revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED) that emerged from the European Union recently has provided some direction on where the European biofuels market will head after 2020: but it also left open the door for further, immediate, policy measures in… Read more

New biodiesel mandates in Indonesia and Malaysia The biggest news in palm-based biodiesel – surprisingly – has nothing to do with the European Union. Instead, both sides of the Straits are talking about new rules mandating the use of palm… Read more

Zero Deforestation Comes to the Soy Market The past few weeks have seen a number of new developments on ‘zero deforestation’ initiatives, but this time they are aimed squarely at the soybean industry – not palm. First, UK retailer Tesco… Read more