Politico’s Europe Arm Takes the Greenpeace Bait Hook, Line, and Sinker
Politico’s EU office appears to have fallen for the NGO line on the EU’s new deforestation regulation. In an article from late December by Leonie…
Jokowi Revokes 3 million ha of Forestry Permits; NGOs Ignore the Good News
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 –…
Jokowi Calls out France; Malaysia’s Responsible Employment Charter Announcement
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…
EU Deforestation Regulation: Can We Expect a Trade War?
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…
Greenpeace and Legality, Round Two
Greenpeace renewed its attacks on Indonesia this past week, again pushing out a report it published in October. The report – when it was released…
Palm Oil’s Due Diligence Battle Is About to Heat Up
Last week, the UK confirmed that its due diligence regime for deforestation in imported commodities – including palm oil – would be based on legality,…
UK Spin on COP26 Declaration Angers Indonesia
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…
BBC Gets On The Anti-Indonesia Bandwagon
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…
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