3A Palm in the News by Elizabeth Welsh https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1 Post a summary, image, and link to a current news story related to palm oil. en-us 2022-02-15 12:01:36 UTC 2025-12-02 00:08:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Finding Replacements For Palm Oil - Anirudh Prodduturu and Santhosh Divyakolu https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049039081
  • Palm Oil is one of the most destructive ingredients you can use
  • The world uses 70 million metric tons of palm oil per year
  • Palm Oil plantations are driving deforestation and biodiversity loss.
  • Tropical forests are burned down in order to make way for palm trees.
  • Huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • There are efforts to create a more sustainable version of palm oil
  •  Locus Fermentation Solutions is making palm-free ingredients for products like shampoo and body wash using fermentation.
  • Inside small vessels, yeast fed with sugar make a product called sophorolipids, a type of surfactant.
  • This product pulls away oil and grease from wet hair.
  • Typical shampoos often come from ingredients created by fossil fuels or palm oil. This means that the oil has to be processed into derivatives. 
  • Processing the raw oil uses much more energy as well.
  • Xylome is testing an alternative called “yoil” which is produced by yeast, and is almost identical to palm oil
    • Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90716324/palm-oil-is-one-of-the-most-destructive-ingredients-you-use-every-day-these-startups-are-trying-to-replace-it
    ]]>     2022-02-15 16:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049039081     Effective duty on crude palm oil cut to 5.5% to cool edible oil prices. akakuman https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049048837 Name: Alex Amodio and Anuj Kakumanu
    Link:
    https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/effective-duty-on-crude-palm-oil-cut-to-5-5-to-cool-edible-oil-prices-122021300070_1.html
    Summary:
    - The required payments on palm oil was brought down by 5.5 percent from 8.25 percent earlier, after taking into account agricultural development and social welfare. 
    - An industry body, SEA, has been demanding that the difference between crude and refined palm oil should be 11% more as higher imports of refined oil impact domestic refineries. 
    - These changes will enable domestic refiners to operate refinery more economically. 
    - There has been a surge in products that require refined palm oil as opposed to products that use crude palm oil.
    - As a result, prices of refined palm oil will go up and prices of crude palm oil will go down as the industry and market for palm oil changes. 
    ]]>     2022-02-15 16:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049048837     Maya Davis, Natalie Grant, Manika Vaidya: Malaysia’s road to sustainable Palm oil https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049049488
  • Malaysia wanted all palm oil fields to be sustainable in 2025
  • Even though it provided many jobs, it caused great deforestation and was bad for the environment 
  • It is harder for small and medium sized growers to comply and earn a RSPO certification 
  • An RSPO certification is a certification that states that palm oil is sustainable 
  • Palm oil is essential for household goods 
  • Sabah produces 6% of the global total of palm oil in 2020 
  • Malaysia is apart of more than 100 nations that want to end deforestation by 2030 
  • Many countries are attempting to have more sustainable palm oil plantations, but their goals are hard to meet as many items need to use palm oil as an ingredient 
  • Pepsi, Walmart, Nestle, and other brands launched the Forest Positive Coalition of Action in 2020 to stop commodity supply chains that fuel deforestation

    • ]]>     2022-02-15 16:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049049488     8 Things to Know About Palm Oil https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049057767 BY: SUMMER & SUHAVEE
    https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil

    -Palm oil is the main derive for deforestation

    -Destroys the habitat of endangered species

    -Remains some exploitation of workers and child labor

    -The RSPO was created to help with he concerns of palm oil and its affects on the environment

    -RSPO has a production standard that sets best practices producing and sourcing palm oil

    -It’s resistance to oxidation provides a longer life on the shelves of stores causing increase in supply and buy

    -contributes to climate change and sends out a lot of different toxic, harmful greenhouse gases


    ]]>     2022-02-15 16:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049057767     Anya Patel and Riley Volastro https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049070205 Palm oil firms on weak output
    - On February 15, 2022, Malaysian palm oil futures ticked up on Tuesday, after the end of a high record during the previous session.
    - The benchmark palm oil contract for April delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange gained 11 ringgit, or 0.19%, to 5678 ringgit a tonne during early trade. It fell 0.36% during the overnight trade.
    - Palm oil is affected by price movements in related oils, as they compete for a share in the global vegetable oils market.
    - Oil prices fell as investor took profits from the previous day tally to 7 year highs and as global stock markets slumped.
    - Asian share branch marked dropped, as investors contemplated the implications of a potential imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    https://mettisglobal.news/palm-oil-firms-on-weak-output/]]>     2022-02-15 17:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049070205     Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say -Chris Collins and Aidan Ayar ccollin12 https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049071153 https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/indonesia-is-clearing-less-forest-for-palm-oil-but-its-still-not-sustainable/



    • Indonesia is the worlds biggest producer of palm oil.

    • In Indonesia a new analysis shows the number of oil palm plantations have decreased.

    • Since 2000, 3.1 million hectares of land out of a total 16.2 millón hectares were deforested due to the creation of more pal oil plantations.

    • A Greenpeace campaigner claimed that deforestation is necessary for there to be real “sustainability”.

    • A new push is being made, attempting to pit a complete stop to the deforestation within Indonesia.

    • Palm oil being produced is now being labeled, this way it is easy to tell if the only thing causing deforestation is the increase in number of palm oil plantations.

    • Information from “NGO Consortium for Agrarian Reform” show that conflict is being caused by the deforestation caused by palm oil.

    • Plantation owners are making attempts to expand, and finding other places for them to mass produce palm oil, without regard for the effects. The owners are most likely blinded by wealth and success that they are not even giving the real after effects a second thought.




    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049071153     Palm oil - Sapna Padmanabhan spadmana https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049072637 Malaysia Plantation Stocks Rise Amid Elevated Palm Oil Prices.
    • Some Darby Plantation Bhd rose 7.4% 
    • would gain 20% more than they did before in a month. 
    • Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd. Rose to 5.5% in a month gained 11% more. 
    • The market has been showing the supply risks for crude palm oil for a 4% decline in exports of 1.55 million tons of crude palm oil. 
    • Palm oil goes for 4,100 ringgit or $980.04 a ton 
    • when raising the price helps with the people producing it to gain more profit. 
    • FGV Holdings Bhd, went up 3.3%
    • IOI Corp.’s stocks went up 1.0%
    • Some of the percentages don’t seem very high on paper, but if there’s less demand then the companies and plantations had to raise the prices so their company doesn’t get bankrupt.
    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/malaysia-plantation-stocks-rise-amid-elevated-palm-oil-prices-271644566532

    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049072637     Adeel & Arjun How the world got hooked on palm oil https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049080641 - A magical fruit made everything better. The magical fruit was Palm. 
    - Forests were burned down so more trees of that fruit were planted. 
    - There was a lot of nasty smoke and all of the creatures in the forest ran away. 
    - 85% of palm oil comes Malaysia and Indonesia 
    - Between 1995 and 2015 the production of palm has quadrupled
    -  Today 3 billion people in 150 countries use products that contain palm oil and will use 8 kg of palm oil every year
    - The production of palm oil usually contains a lot of labor and human right abuses
    - The financial incentive to produce more palm oil is helping to warm the planet and its destroying the only habitat of Sumatran tigers
    - The reason its so popular is because of 5 reasons 
         - It replaced less healthy fats in foods in the west
         - Very cheap
         - Replaced expensive oils and personal care products
         - It’s adopted as cooking oil in Asian countries 
         - Asian countries grew richer and they began to consume more fat and much of it was in the form of Palm oil
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingredient-biscuits-shampoo-environmental

    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049080641     Palm Oil - Siyaana Sanjanwala ssanjanw https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049081710 https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil

    - palm oil is an edible vegetable oil that is edible and it comes from the fruit of palm oil trees. 
    - palm oil is in 50% of the things we humans consume and use on a daily basis. For example, things like shampoo, lipstick, deodorant, pizza, ect. 
    - palm oil is an efficient crop that is able to produce high quantities of it soil on smaller areas of land and it is widely used. 
    - it has been a major drive of deforestation and it is destroying the habitats of different animals in the wild. 
    - there has been a foundation that set different practices down for producing and sourcing palm oil and its the best ways without destroying other habitats and causing more issues. 
    - there are many people out there, especially farmers who’s lives depend on palm oil, because that is there job and it has the most production all year around they have a job. 
    - in the UK they set a commitment that 100% of their palm oil that is being used has to be from sources that don’t harm nature or people. 
    - the best thing humans can do is avoid boycotting palm oil and trying to support its production and help out with other solutions to safer farming. ]]>     2022-02-15 17:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049081710     Palm Oil -Tanya P https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049087520 https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-cuts-tax-crude-palm-oil-imports-help-consumers-refiners-2022-02-13/

    • India cuts taxes on palm oil imports.
    • India is trying to gain local prices, help refiners and consumers.
    • The imports have gone from 5% to 7.5%.
    • India’s government is trying to bring in local prices or domestic prices by decreasing the import tax.
    • The tax difference between crude palm oil and refined palm oil leads to difference in the imports.
    • To control the prices of edible oil, tax reduction on the refined and crude palm oil will be an input. 





    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049087520     Palm Oil and Nigeria - Maahi Patel and Aditi Kamath https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049089547 https://www.ft.com/content/d7dc168d-c9ff-42a8-88e6-319e40a179cf

    • Nigeria used to be the leading palm oil producer around 1960
    • They started to focus on crude oil exports which made them reach 5th in the rankings for palm oil
    • They believed that producing more palm oil was more beneficial 
    • It had good use for cooking and it could be used for toothpaste and soap
    • In 2015 the government banned importing palm oil
    • After this ban, Nigeria has had a significant increase in palm oil production
    • Even though their production had increased, the supply couldn’t meet the demand
    • More money goes to the bigger companies rather than the smaller farmers
    • Releaf, a company that takes palm nuts and extracts the palm kernel oil from them, the oil is them put into soap and food
    • Palm oil is one of the main things that are contributing to deforestation all over the world 

    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049089547     The Effects on Palm oil on the Environment- Joash Abraham https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049097328 The hunt for palm oil has had a significant impact on the world and its environment.

    Air Pollution:
    • In order to harvest the oil, vegetation and natural forests have to be cleared and burned
    • As we know, the burning of these environments release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thus contributing to climate change and air pollution
    • Fires such as these in wetland areas are difficult to put out

    Soil and Water pollution:
    • Palm oil mills usually generate around 2.5 metric tons of effluent for each ton of palm oil that is produced
    • The release of the effluent may lead to the pollution of water
    • This can alter downstream biodiversity and people
    • Even though palm oil plantations aren’t users of fertilizers and pesticides, the uses of these chemicals can pollute groundwater surfaces

    Soil Erosion:
    • Occasionally, palm oil plantations can be planted in unorganized arrangements
    • Oil palms can be planted on steep slopes, causing erosion
    • As a result, flooding is increased and silt is deposited into ports and rivers
    Climate Change:
    • Forest fires can be used to clear vegetation in palm oil plantations releases CO2
    • Indonesias practice with this process leads to it being the third-largest global emitter of greenhouse gasses

    https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/palm-oil




    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049097328     Palm Oil: Conflicts with the Environment apatel95 https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049118507 https://www.fix.com/blog/how-palm-oil-affects-the-environment/

    • Although palm oil itself isn’t harmful, the process of extraction is.
    • The $40 billion palm industry is known for causing deforestation. When producers want to expand their business, they resort to eliminating the wilderness by burning forests. This releases excessive amounts of greenhouse gas.
    • This also displaces indigenous people and animals. When plantations grow, plants that aren’t palm get removed. The animals residing in those plants are forced to relocate. 
    • Orangutans amongs with other animals are at risk of extinction because of this industry. 
    • Leads to loss of biodiversity 
    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049118507     Palm Oil- Sri Ram Saravana ssaravan2 https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049129825 -Palm oil originates from west Africa 

    -The palm tree grows more than 60 ft tall in the wild.

    -Malaysia got palm oil when the British brought it and the dutch had brought it to Indonesia in the mid 1800

    -Palms bear fruit 30 months after planting and keep producing for 20-30 more years.

    -Malaysia and Indonesia make 90% of global palm oil.

    -4.5 million people in Indonesia and Malaysia are being employed by Palm oil production

    -making land for palm trees has cause deforestation in south East Asian countries.

    -Malaysia has lost. A fifth of its old growth forest since 2001.

    The destroyed trees causes carbon which we already have too much have.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/borneo-islands-sabah-state-green-palm-oil-deforestation-sustainability/
    ]]>     2022-02-15 17:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049129825     Penelope Chen and Krish Anand - Indonesian Palm Oil Limitations https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049498878
  • The Indonesian government is currently drafting a plan to have the exportation as such oils as palm oil to be limited
    • These limitations require exporters to receive shipment approval for the exportation of palm oils and products for 6 months
  • The prices of palm oil in Malaysia increased by 3.2% in response to the Indonesian policies, etc.
  • Thus far, there a minimum requirement for the domestic sale of palm oil has not yet been implemented
    • A handful of legislators have asked for the Domestic Market Obligation to intervene
      • The DMO is striving to ensure that domestic supply is available to its power plants
        • Some feel that Indonesian citizens should have access to cooking oils of lower prices
  • Export disruptions in the permits are not expected as the limitations are being implemented only to supposedly benefit people
    • This would ensure organization, availability, and supply security
  • Palm oil companies must share their exportation/distribution plans and attach a sales contract (proof)
  • The government set a single price for the purchase of oils like palm oil (14,000 rupiah per liter)
    • The government plans to maintain this set price by distributing 7.6 trillion rupiah (subsidies) for 250 million liters of palm oil

    • Link: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/indonesia-government-drafting-plan-limit-palm-oil-exports-gapki-2444911

    ]]>     2022-02-15 20:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2049498878     Malaysia's transition to sustainable Palm Oil - Lokkit Sanjay Babu Narayanan https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2052515765 - Malaysia Produces 26% of the world's Palm Oil and recently established that all Malaysian producers of Palm oil need to be sustainable by 2025
    - The Malaysian State of Sabah on Borneo will be the first to go fully sustainable followed by the other states.
    - Sabah produced over 5 million tons of the substance last year, or over 6% of the global supply of Palm Oil.
    - Although over 65% of Sabah is still covered in forests, Malaysia has nearly lost over 1/5th of its forest area in 20 years.
    - Global organizations such as General Mills, Ferrero and Nestle have begun tracking the source of their Palm Oil, to ensure that it is sustainable. 
    - Over 4.5 million Malaysian Workers are directly involved in the Palm Oil Industry.
    - Land cleared for Palm Oil plantations are done so with the Slash-and-burn practices which create thick hazes over Borneo and are the most unhealthy way of clearing forests.
    - Palm Oil has been harvested in Malaysia since the mid 1800s.

    Link - 
    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/borneo-islands-sabah-state-green-palm-oil-deforestation-sustainability/]]>     2022-02-17 06:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2052515765     What’s So Wrong About the Palm Oil Industry? jotooapp https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2053076268 * Since almost everything contains palm oil, it is mass produced on huge scales
    * Even though palm oil requires less land to produce than other crops, large amounts of forest are being cut down and cleared out
    * These actions cause pollution (dirt in the air and on land), it increases global warning and climate change, and lessens bio diversity
    * Bio diversity is variety of animals and species on Earth; palm oil plantations are causing species like the Orangutan and Sumatran elephants
    * When these plantations are abandoned it takes thousands of years to regrow to its original state

    ^ https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/how-the-legacy-of-colonialism-built-a-palm-oil-empire/
    ^ https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/palm-oil 

    ]]>     2022-02-17 12:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethwelsh2/ufdbf0ek7c7wyug1/wish/2053076268