Companies are increasingly demanding certified palm oil using criteria that are stricter than current RSPO standards – does the mean the RSPO certification is in danger of becoming irrelevant?

Palm kernel derivatives are widely used in the cosmetic industry, particularly as they can be processed in many forms ...

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is widely considered the strongest certification scheme for the commodity, which is grown largely on plantations hacked out of tropical forests that are ...

Less than five months after the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) suspended Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group’s certification, that suspension has been lifted – much to the dismay of NGO ...

In this third edition of ‘Committed to Sustainable Palm Oil?’, WWF and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) analysed Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP) reports submitted by growers, processors and ...

A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme ranks certification schemes for biofuels and edible oils. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil topped the NGO’s rankings, although it too has ...

Food manufacturers including Kellogg, Mars and PepsiCo have criticised the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for failing to "address critical sustainability concerns" in the supply chain for the ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solvay announces the certification of its Halifax, UK manufacturing site in accordance to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) guidelines. Halifax joins sister sites ...

Bangkok, Thailand (10 November) -- At its 14th Annual Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) publicly awarded leading global agribusiness company Olam ...

One of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s (RSPO) objectives is to help tackle poverty in palm producing communities. But does certification help alleviate farmer poverty? The RSPO has emerged as ...