Palm Producers Form Grouping To Counter Anti-Palm Lobby
03 Mai 2010 - 2:39PM
Dow Jones News
Palm oil producers from Malaysia and Indonesia have set up
industry group late Monday as part of its plan to step up their
efforts to improve communication and palm oil's image during a wave
of negative publicity by environmental groups.
The newly formed group, the Indonesia Malaysia Palm Oil Group
(IMPOG) will "focus on research and development,
sustainability-related issues and communications to stakeholders,"
it said in a statement.
The meeting, a follow-up from a collaboration agreement signed
early March between the Malaysian Palm Oil Association, the
Indonesian Palm Oil Association and other plantation organizations,
had generated much speculation in the industry that today's meeting
would be the precursor to setting up an alternative certification
body to the RSPO as some among the palm oil producers, especially
those from Indonesia, felt the RSPO weren't able to serve their
cause.
Industry executives at the closed-door meeting said, however,
producers agreed instead to "engage with RSPO for a more practical
and implementable scheme and didn't discuss any alternative
sustainability certification scheme for palm oil."
The palm oil industry came under scrutiny after environmental
group Greenpeace charged Jakarta-listed PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources
and Technology (PT SMART) (SMAR.JK) and Singapore-listed Golden
Agri-Resources (E5H.SG) for not following sustainable plantation
practices.
At the RSPO annual meeting last November, some Indonesian
growers had threatened to stage a walk-out if the certification
body had agreed demands by the E.U. and environmental groups to add
conditions such as greenhouse gas emissions to the already
stringent certification process.
By Shie-Lynn Lim, Dow Jones Newswires; +603 2026 1233;
shie-lynn.lim@dowjones.com
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