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This China Dialogue project will examine whether the major palm oil markets can grow without increasing emissions and harming biodiversity

RSPO faces challenges of post-pandemic palm oil

The role and remit of the industry’s leading standards body were the focus of the first in-person meeting since 2019

Hornbill tropical bird eating fruit from a tree

How fig trees could revolutionise reforestation and tourism in Borneo

A row of oil palm trees in front of mountains and blue sky

In Honduras, a democratic approach to palm oil defies the status quo

sun peeking out from behind large group of coconut trees

Revitalising coconut farming in Southeast Asia

palm oil forest surrounding river

Will the EU’s deforestation law keep forests standing?

Two palm oil farmers at a pick-up point with their harvested palm oil fruit

India’s palm oil drive faces reality check

man looking up in forest clearing

Producing palm oil and protecting forests in Latin America

Silhouettes of tree stumps and deforested land against orange smoke from forest fires, rainforest faintly visible in background

greenhouse gases

How can the palm oil industry reach net zero?

Crowds of customers shop for cosmetics and skincare products at a shopping mall in Chengdu

Improving palm oil awareness in China

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From its origins in Africa, to the plantations of Southeast Asia, and the supermarkets of India, follow palm oil’s journey through eight people’s stories

Palm oil, animated

Illustrated scene of woman pounding oil palm fruit and men carrying sacks

Where does palm oil come from?

Find out in this special series of videos, directed and animated by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet. Music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio. Sound design and mix by Amanda P.H. Bennett, cAMP Studio. English voiceover by Kuti Biazid.

Illustration of orangutan's back watching fires burning in the background, with forest around

What impact has palm oil had?

Illustrated scene of protest banners with orangutan and burning forests

Is certification the solution?

Illustrated scene of farmer with lots of biodiversity around

Is there hope for palm oil?

New Britain Palm Oil

New Britain Palm Oil Limited (NBPOL) focuses mainly on palm oil in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. NBPOL manage plantations and operate processing facilities which mostly handle certified sustainable palm material.

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ESG rating

94.4%

Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) rating from SPOTT

Market Cap

Not listed

100% owned subsidiary

Landbank

140,000

hectares

Major palm companies, at a glance

Company Name	Market Served	Market Cap (Million USD)	ESG Rating (SPOTT)	Landbank (ha)

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Palm oil, explained

The anatomy of an oil palm

Palm oil is used in thousands of everyday products around the world, but what do we know of the palm that produces it?

palm oil; kernels of oil palm held in cupped hands

Palm oil: The pros and cons of a controversial commodity

Answers to key questions about a commodity that, for better or for worse, is here to stay

How palm oil is certified ‘sustainable’

Concerns about the impacts of palm oil have led to standards certifying it as ‘sustainable’. But are they effective, and which are best?

Crude palm is seen at a processing plant in Langkat of Indonesia's north Sumatra province October 31, 2012. Indonesia's exports still fell 9.35 percent in September from a year ago, the sixth month in a row in which they were lower than a year earlier. Th

Breaking down palm oil

Crude palm oil can be broken down into many useful derivatives, but murky chemical supply chains may be hampering sustainable development

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The mothers of Malen

Episode one of our new podcast series Palm Oil Frontiers visits Malen Chiefdom in Sierra Leone

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Small-holder Oil Palm Harvest in Sumatra

State-wide approach could transform palm oil

Madhava Rao, an oil palm farmer, in front of his plantation

India’s palm oil plans fail to account for climate change

Four protestors hold signs calling for a stop to a proposed palm oil power plant, due to be built in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture by HIS Super Power, a subsidiary of a major travel company

Japan’s palm oil power push is faltering

people on a river boat

Regrowing Borneo’s precious rainforests

men standing near truck with large pile of oil palm fruit at their feet

Smallholders are key to EU’s deforestation law

A Bornean pygmy elephant in the wild, looking at the camera from behind tree branches and thick foliage

Restoring wildlife to oil palm landscapes

A palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia_Willy Kurniawan

China’s palm oil business in Indonesia: Socio-environmental challenges

historical image of Kew Gardens palm house

Cultivating care: colonial botany and the oil palm

Unloading palm oil fruit in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Opinion: Malaysia’s sustainability standard can clean up murky supply chains

The Segun River in Indonesia’s West Papua

The Moi struggle for land rights

worker filling up a bus with fuel

energy transition

The place of biodiesel as China eyes carbon neutrality

Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?

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