Questions and answers about palm oil Rainforest Rescue
Palm oil plays a decisive role in the lives of almost everyone of us. Being a low-cost resource, palm oil is in great demand and is contained in virtually everything. You can find it in foods ranging from frozen pizza to chocolate bars, in laundry detergents and cleaning agents, in cosmetics, in diesel fuel tanks and in combined heat and power plants.
The answer is a clear NO. Using palm oil for power generation or bioethanol and biodiesel as vehicle fuels is fundamentally unsustainable and contributes to climate change and world hunger. Read on for answers to some burning questions about biofuels. What are biofuels?
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Oil giant threatens 180,000 hectares of rainforest. Italian oil and gas corporation Agip-Eni is building a biofuel refinery near Venice. Crude palm oil is about to be imported from Southeast Asian palm oil plantations. The capacity of 500,000 tons of b
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Questions and answers about palm oil Rainforest Rescue. Palm oil plays a decisive role in the lives of almost everyone of us. Being a low-cost resource, palm oil is in great demand and is contained in virtually everything. You can find it in foods ranging from frozen pizza to chocolate bars, in laundry detergents and cleaning
Companies cannot just make commitments to buy palm oil from RSPO members or only use RSPO certified palm oil and consider the problem solved. Companies need to develop their own palm oil purchasing policy that requires their suppliers to provide them with truly responsible palm oil. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PALM OIL
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The rainforest; Biodiversity; Palm oil; Biofuel; Tropical timber; Gold; Meat production. The rainforest Read more; Biodiversity Read more; Palm oil deforestation for everyday products Read more; About us Rainforest Rescue. Defending the world’s rainforests since 1986. About us; FAQ; Contact us. About Rainforest Rescue Get to know us; Questions and answers FAQ; Get in touch with us
Aug 6, 2013 Expanding palm oil empires in the name of ‘green energy’ and 'sustainable development' Press release by Rights Action, Rainforest Rescue, Biofuelwatch and Food First 6th August 2013 International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Honduras on 6th-8th
Palm oil jet fuel stopped! Rainforest Rescue
Member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have rejected the organization's scheme to use millions of tons of palm oil as “green” jet fuel. A broad coalition of environmental activists helped expose the aviation industry’s plans for “carbon-neutral growth” as pure PR.
Questions and answers about palm oil Rainforest Rescue. Palm oil plays a decisive role in the lives of almost everyone of us. Being a low-cost resource, palm oil is in great demand and is contained in virtually everything. You can find it in foods ranging from frozen pizza to chocolate bars, in laundry detergents and cleaning