palm oil
American retirement funds are destroying rainforests
Innovative new web tool empowers citizen investor action on deforestation A new transparency tool, “Deforestation Free Funds,” shows which global mutual funds contain palm-oil-related holdings, the fastest growing cause of rainforest destruction today. Friends of the Earth and As You Sow created this free online database to allow individual investors, for the first time ever, […]
New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Labour standards violations in IOI Corporation’s Malaysian plantations
Banks must do more to meet their obligations under UN guidelines to disclose their response to specific human rights impacts linked to their finance. This is the main conclusion of the first in a new series of Human Rights Impact Briefings released by BankTrack today, which assesses the responses of fifteen large commercial banks to […]
RSPO failing to meet sustainability objectives for palm oil production, says WWF
An initiative that aims to improve the social and environmental performance of palm oil production is faltering in its mission by failing to establish strong performance standards on greenhouse gas emissions and pesticide use, argues a new statement issued by WWF, the initiative’s biggest green supporter. The statement [PDF], published on the eve of a […]
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