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Palm Oil Industry will never be sustainable

Nov 22, 2008 Palm oil plantations already have caused deforestation of primary forests that in reality are part of ancestral and community land. As consequences, water sources, food, medicine, spiritality and culture are depleted. On November 18-20, 2008, palm oil companies met again (at the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil) in Bali, Indonesia, to continue their large scale expansion plannings.

More than 250 organizations condemn the greenwashing of palm oil

Oct 15, 2008 An International Declaration Against the Greenwashing of Palm Oil by the RSPO has spoken out against the wholesale expansion of palm oil in tropical countries and the human rights abuses, land conflicts, destruction of tropical forests and acceleration of climate change it entails.

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