… 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 … been carved out of precious rainforest and peat land, resulting in the release of carbon into the atmosphere and the loss of habitat for rare rainforest species. Some palm … University of Singapore BusinessSchool Equity and Justice Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance and ESG Circularity Golden Agri Resources and …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development … influence levers they could use to pressure the government and non-complying companiesinto line? Government officialssympathetic to environmental concerns had their own set of … policy was framed, how could it be passed and enforced, especially given the decentralized nature of Indonesian government and the widespread corruption that permeated the state’s …
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… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of … various government agencies as well as PEMEX, by mid-2014 no ethanol had been incorporated into Mexico's gasoline supply. As Mexican policy makers looked at the country's energy … and station pumps. Brazil had gone even further, requiring vehicles to be "flex-fuel," engineered to run on either a gasoline-ethanol blend or pure ethanol. In 2008, ethanol from …
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