… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. … in the global economy. And, as firessetto clear land for palm oil plantations blazed in Indonesia throughoutthe fall of 2015, covering the region in haze, the ubiquitous commodity … was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, ourshampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plantwith efficient, …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancienttimes, it is only in the past few … 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreementto end deforestation, … their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (asthe agreement was named) represented a dramatic advance in … land rights. Indonesian land-use laws were ambiguous and land ownership unmapped. This indeterminate state of affairs had led to widespread corruption, as companies …
… Throughoutthe world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, … it manufactured components, including filters, turbochargers, and aftertreatment, used with its own engines and withthe systems of other manufacturers. The components and engines …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather than sheetsteel in the truck bed and cab. Starting withthe 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be builtwith … to the auto industry. First, there wasthe problem of consumer perceptions. Car and truck buyerstended to believe that aluminum was not asstrong assteel. Especially in the truck …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meantthatthe national oil company PEMEX had to find waysto implementthis policy. …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon … effortsto reduce carbon emissions. In early 2009, PepsiCo again announced it had partnered withthe Carbon Trustto calculate the carbon footprint of itsTropicana-brand orange juice. …