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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
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Promoting The Growth And
Use Of Sustainable Palm Oil
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Outline
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
What is palm oil?
The need for sustainable palm oil
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Where we are today
Where we go from here
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What is palm oil?
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
“It has the scent of violets,
the taste of olive oil and a
color which tinges food like
saffron but is more
attractive”
Ca’da Mosto,
15th century explorer,
on discovering palm oil.
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What is palm oil?
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Palm Oil...
A highly versatile vegetable oil
Used in many food and non-food products
Produced in tropical countries
Rapidly growing market share
World’s top selling vegetable oil
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Palm oil is used in more than half of packaged
supermarket products today
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World palm oil production has grown rapidly
X 1 million tonnes
50
40
30
20
10
0
1966
1976
1986
1996
2006
Source: Oil World, MOPB, MPOC
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Palm oil is now the world's
most-produced vegetable oil
Other
19%
Sunflower
8%
Rapeseed
14%
Palm
30%
Soy
29%
Source: Oil World, May, 2008
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X 1 million hectares
Palm tree cultivation has expanded significantly
10
Other
Malaysia
5
Indonesia
0
1990
1998
2007
Source: Oil World, May, 2008
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Two countries produce
most of the world's palm oil
Other
15%
Indonesia
44%
Malaysia
41%
Source: Oil World, May, 2008
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Asia and the EU are world's major
importers of palm oil
China
18%
Other
16%
Africa
12%
Asia
55%
EU
16%
India
13%
Pakistan 6%
Other Asia
19%
Source: Oil World, May, 2008
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What is palm oil?
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Oil palms..
are highly efficient producers of oil
require less land than other oil crops
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Average yield per year (tonnes of oil per hectare)
Oil palm: 3.68
Rapeseed: 0.59
Sunflower: 0.42
Soybean: 0.36
Source: Oil World
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Why sustainable palm oil?
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Millions of people are
dependent on palm oil
More than 1 million
workers
More than 3 million
smallholders
Many more
household members
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Why sustainable palm oil?
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Social issues in oil palm cultivation
Land ownership conflicts
Worker’s rights and conditions
Treatment of smallholders
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Environmental issues in oil palm cultivation
Forest, peatland
conversion
Climate change
Biodiversity loss
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The Roundtable
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The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil:
Started in 2003, with 7 members
Multi-stakeholder group
Promotes the growth and use of sustainable oil
palm products through global standards
Among its principles:
Respect for rights of land owners, farm workers,
smallholders and their families
No primary forests or high conservation value areas
sacrificed for new palm oil plantations
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The Roundtable
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Today*: 249 RSPO members
67 oil palm growers
96 palm oil processors, traders
5 social, developmental NGOs
13 environmental NGOs
36 consumer goods manufacturers
24 retailers
8 banks and investors
* September, 2008
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RSPO’s preparations:
Code of Conduct for members
Independent certification bodies
Principles, specific criteria and indicators for
sustainable palm oil production
Supply chain certification systems
Guidelines on communication and claims
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Code of Conduct: “Every member supports,
promotes and works towards the production,
procurement and use of sustainable palm oil”
Grievance panel supervises compliance
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Sustainability Principles:
Transparency
Use best practices
Care for environment,
natural resources,
and biodiversity
Consider rights of
workers, smallholders
Develop new plantings
responsibly
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Specific social criteria and indicators:
Rights to the land not legitimately contested
Workers’ pay and conditions provide decent living
The right to form trade unions is respected
Health and safety plan implemented
Smallholders treated fairly by mills
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Specific environmental criteria and indicators:
Since November 2005, new plantings did not replace
primary forests or high conservation value areas
Erosion and degradation of soils are minimized
Pollution and waste is reduced
Use of fires is avoided
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Plantation, mill certification procedure
Approved certification bodies listed on RSPO website
Audit by certification body (1 month notice)
Unit of certification: oil mill and suppliers
Compliance with Principles, Criteria and Indicators
Phase I: Document review
Phase II: Field checks, stakeholder interviews
Audit Report, summary published online
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The palm oil supply chain:
Many links
Potential for mixing
Plantations
Smallholders
Mill
Transport & Shipping
Product
Manufacturers
Refiners &
Blenders
Ingredient
Manufacturers
Retailers
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Supply chain certification procedure
Verifies movement of oil through supply chain
Step-by-step documentation
Short-term: self-assessments
Long-term: third-party certification
Details: RSPO Supply Chain Certification Systems
See: www.rspo.org
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Where we are today
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Two possible claims in communication, marketing:
“... contains [only/.. %] RSPO-certified sustainable
palm oil”
- Used with ‘Identity Preserved’, ‘Segregation’ systems
“... supports the production of RSPO-certified
sustainable palm oil (equivalent to .. % of the palm
oil utilized)”
- Used with ‘Mass Balance’, ‘Book and Claim’ systems
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Where we are today
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By end of 2008:
± 12 certification bodies
approved by RSPO
350,000 hectares certified
Four supply chain certification
systems operational
Capacity to supply 1.5 million
tonnes of RSPO-certified
sustainable palm oil per year
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Where we go from here
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RSPO’s ambitions:
Grow supply of certified oil
Grow demand for certified oil
Grow RSPO membership
Engage governments
Engage and educate smallholders
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Where we go from here
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By end of 2009:
Capacity to supply 3
million tonnes per year
(± 8% of production)
Ultimately,
RSPO aims to see
all the world’s palm oil
produced in a
sustainable way
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Thank You!
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RSPO Secretariat
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
WWW.RSPO.ORG
Telephone : +60 3 6203 5969
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