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Mongabay reported that local environmental groups have “cautiously welcomed” President Jokowi’s announcement to revoke forestry concession permits covering a total of 3 million hectares – an area the size of Belgium – in order to improve governance and environmental practices… Read more

President Jokowi has issued something of a warning to France on palm oil, just as President Macron is seeking to put the EU’s deforestation regulation at the centre of his election campaign. Last month France’s foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian… Read more

The draft EU Deforestation Regulation was released by the European Commission in late November. Its approach is simple: ban commodities produced from deforested land. The released version has already caused significant consternation, with arguably the world’s leading trade policy journalist… Read more

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Greenpeace renewed its attacks on Indonesia this past week, again pushing out a report it published in October. The report – when it was released – appeared to be designed to push regulators in the UK, EU and US away… Read more

Last week, the UK confirmed that its due diligence regime for deforestation in imported commodities – including palm oil – would be based on legality, rather than sustainability criteria. This was particularly significant for palm oil exporting countries, as they… Read more

Social media and the environmental press went into overdrive at the weekend with the news that Indonesia had taken issue with the way the UK had presented the Glasgow Declaration on Climate and Land Use. More specifically, Indonesian officials objected… Read more

In our last blog we revealed the Norwegian Government was funding the BBC and the Gecko Project to take aim at Indonesia’s smallholder farmers. This week, the BBC appears to have made good for its new donors. Coinciding with the… Read more

Palm Oil Monitor has obtained documents being circulated by the BBC in Indonesia that appear to be aimed at undermining the smallholder sector in Indonesia. BBC Media Action – the ‘charity arm’ of the UK’s public broadcaster – has been… Read more