Environmental stories tagged with: palm oil

Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversity

Tuesday, 2nd December 2008, 12:44 pm

Keeping tropical rainforests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment in Indonesia

Monday, 10th November 2008, 7:29 pm

Dumai, Indonesia - In the latest stage of the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour around south-east Asia, activists have arrived in Dumai, Indonesia to block a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe.

Unilever Commits to Certified Sustainable Palm Oil

Thursday, 1st May 2008, 5:19 pm

Unilever today announced its intention to have all of its palm oil certified sustainable by 2015.

Preserving Indonesia's Peatland

Monday, 29th October 2007, 5:52 pm

Greenpeace volunteers and a local community are working to stop the destruction of an area of swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, which is to be converted into a palm oil plantation.