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Palm oil

May 2024

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    ‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister

December 2023

  • Close-up of part of a Virgin Atlantic plane

    Calls for tighter rules on biofuels imports to root out palm oil fraud

    Investigations suggest a large share of ‘used’ cooking oil being imported could be wrongly labelled as demand outpaces supply

November 2023

  • A man and two soldiers looking out over a national park containing an illegal oil palm plantation in Honduras.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Deadly harvest: how demand for palm oil is fuelling corruption in Honduras

    Latin America is the fastest-growing producer of the lucrative crop, but at what price for the environment and its defenders?

July 2023

  • A small Asian elephant amid long grass

    The age of extinction
    Making tracks: how linking patches of wilderness is saving Borneo’s wildlife

    Palm oil plantations have fragmented Sabah’s rainforest but land corridors let pygmy elephants and orangutans roam again

March 2023

  • Nick Dearden

    ‘Take back control’? With this Pacific trade deal, Brexit Britain has just signed it away

    Nick Dearden
    Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, asks Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now

November 2022

  • Cattle graze near a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.

    The age of extinction
    Food firms’ plans for 1.5C climate target fall short, say campaigners

    Major producers of soya and beef accused of failing to deliver on pledges to stop deforestation

August 2022

  • Prince William delivers a speech at the Tusk conservation awards in London last year

    Prince William charity uses bank that is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel backers

    Royal Foundation also places investments in trust that owns shares in firms that buy palm oil, investigation reveals

July 2022

  • Workers plant oil-palm seeds at a plantation in the Muallim district of Malaysia

    Push for post-Brexit trade deals may threaten UK pledges on deforestation

    Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m

May 2022

  • Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, on their currrent Music of the Spheres tour.

    Dear Coldplay, listen to Massive Attack and save yourselves from greenwashing

    Eleanor Salter
  • people buy cooking oil in Indonesia

    ‘How many more months should we suffer?’: Indonesians struggle with pricey cooking oil

April 2022

  • Bags of cooking oil in Indonesia

    Indonesia’s palm oil export ban sparks concern over global food prices

    Expert says every country will suffer as world’s biggest palm oil producer bans exports of commodity used in food, cosmetics and cleaning products

March 2022

  • Orang-utan in Iceland/Greenpeace ad

    Iceland reverts to palm oil ‘with regret’ as Ukraine war hits food prices

    Supermarket boss says only alternative would be ‘to clear our freezers and shelves of a wide range of staples’

February 2022

  • FLAMES illustration

    The long read
    ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

    The long read: Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable

January 2022

  • Forest clearance in Indonesia.

    Biodiversity: what happened next?
    The UK city taking a stand on palm oil in the fight against deforestation

    A growing number of towns and villages are following Chester’s lead in helping local businesses to eradicate deforestation-linked oil from their supply chains

November 2021

  • Burnt land next to a palm oil plantation in Central Kalimantan

    Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people

  • Chocolate spread in spoon. A jar of hazelnut chocolate spread.Chocolate spread in spoon. A jar of hazelnut chocolate spread.

    Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer

October 2021

  • Orangutan in a tree

    Fifth of Indonesia’s palm oil sites lie in forest estate, says Greenpeace

    Report says enforcement failures have led to Unesco sites and land mapped as orangutan habitat being turned into plantations

May 2021

  • Aerial photo taken of burnt areas of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil.

    Food brands challenge deforestation rules in UK environment bill

    New bill will enforce fines on UK-based companies that fail to cut links to illegally deforested land

September 2020

  • A worker collects palm oil fruit inside a palm oil factory in near Kuala Lumpur.

    Human rights in focus
    Malaysian prisoners may face 'forced labour' on palm oil plantations

    Shortage of foreign workers behind plan by producers to employ inmates as a stopgap measure

February 2020

  • The Corea family after a successful Easter egg hunt at the NT’s Prior Park garden in Bath in 2017

    National Trust and Cadbury end £7m Easter egg hunt deal

    After pressure from children’s health campaigners, this year’s 260 trails will be the last
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