KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – An environmental group has threatened to withdraw its support for a plan to certify “eco-friendly” palm oil, accusing the world’s two biggest producers of cynically exploiting the initiative.
Friends of the Earth said the Malaysian and Indonesian governments appeared to be using the program, a voluntary industry-led initiative, as an excuse not to legislate to protect rainforests from the rapid expansion of palm-oil estates.
The certification system is set to be unveiled in Kuala Lumpur this week at a meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, which groups producers, consumers and green groups such as Friends of the Earth and WWF.
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