The luxury hotel group Mandarin Oriental is closely tied to a company that has cleared vast areas of rainforests, and is helping drive the Sumatran elephant to extinction. Norway’s pension fund invests 540 million USD in related companies. 2015-05-21– The Mandarin Oriental group includes some of the most sumptuous hotels ...
Read More »INDONESIAN PALM OIL GIANT JOINS NO-DEFORESTATION PLEDGE AMID CRITICISM FROM POLITICIANS
Mongabay.com, Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil producer has officially signed on to a pledge whose signatories promise to purge their supply chains of deforestation, peatlands conversion and rights abuses. The company, Astra Agro Lestari, joins industry titans Wilmar, Golden Agri-Resources, Musim Mas, Asian Agri and Cargill, who together control most of ...
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Two powerful palm oil companies are fulfilling promises related to accountability in their supply chains and bolstering their sustainability. Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), the world’s second largest palm oil plantation company, has achieved the major milestone of mapping its palm oil supply to mill. The company tracked its crude palm oil ...
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