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Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund just announced a groundbreaking human rights policy

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?

Pek Shibao 4 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016
Pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2016

Companies Pledge $140 Billion Toward Resolving Climate Change

Brittany Stewart 31 Jul 2015

Corporations rush to make zero-deforestation commitments, but is it working?

Julian Smith 29 Jun 2015

Indian fabric giant adopts forest policy

Rhett A. Butler 8 May 2015

The best of the worst: fossil-fuel extractors pave the way for the low-carbon revolution

Owen Reynolds 26 Mar 2014

Norwegian insurance giant blacklists palm oil companies

Rhett A. Butler 27 Jan 2014

Mining companies must turn to recycling as demand for metals grows

Fiona Harvey 30 Apr 2013

What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Dunkin’ Donuts to adopt palm oil policy

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2013

Is APP deal a sign of a changing forestry sector?

Nigel Sizer 15 Feb 2013

In search of conflict-free tin from the Congo

Guest Mike Loch 12 Feb 2013

Oil company Perenco endangering ‘uncontacted’ indigenous people, says Peru

David Hill 25 Apr 2012

Whole Foods bans ‘red’ fish from its stores

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2012

Asia Pulp & Paper loses another customer: Danone

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2012

More big companies disclosing impacts on forests

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Levi’s new forest policy excludes fiber from suppliers linked to deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2012

McDonald’s joins sustainable palm oil initiative

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2011

Activists protest Australian forest destruction from top of the Sydney Opera House

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2011

Asia Pulp & Paper to undertake human rights audit

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2011

Taking corporate sustainability seriously means changing business culture

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2011

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