Prices and Deforestation: WSJ Misses the Real Story
The Wall Street Journal – which is for the most part a bastion of data-based reporting aimed at markets – has joined the ranks of…
The Wall Street Journal – which is for the most part a bastion of data-based reporting aimed at markets – has joined the ranks of…
RSPO is pushing out its credentials on human rights and labour rights, but it’s apparent that the organisation has come to the party a little…
The most significant story that has emerged from Indonesia this month is the possible export ban on palm oil. The announcement resulted in an additional…
Richard Walker, the UK supermarket heir who famously excluded palm oil from his retail chain in 2018, has had to walk back and reinstate palm…
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…
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 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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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