Is Europe’s Trade Agenda Tanking in ASEAN?
Did Trevelyan succeed in Jakarta? UK Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan visited Jakarta last month with one primary purpose: salvage the Indonesia-UK roadmap. Sources had indicated…
UK-Indonesia: A Roadmap to Nowhere?
The UK and Indonesia were set to issue a new pact – known loosely as the Indonesia UK Roadmap – earlier this month. Sources indicate…
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,…
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