Posts Tagged ‘Palm oil’

Sustainable Value Approach in the palm oil industry

Posted in Earth on August 2nd, 2010 by iip – 1 Comment

What is the role of companies in the era of sustainable development?  It easy to understand that companies are contributing to economy and world growth at various levels; from local to global by creating value added of goods and services. In term of oil palm plantation, large scale companies alter land monetary value to some degree higher by producing palm oil from the plantation.

But, the world is changing and more people considering social and environmental value. Companies are now working not only for profitability only and neglecting their environment.  How the oil palm companies dealing with this issue?

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Financial crisis undermining biofuel market

Posted in Forest on November 2nd, 2008 by iip – Be the first to comment

What happen to smallholder biodiesel-material producers when major biodiesel consumers are bumping into financial crisis? This is likely a drastic situation after biofuel (both ethanol and biodiesel) market came up in highest demand last year.

Did you know the predicted consumption of biofuels by 2030 is just over 140 millions tons of oil equivalents? A recent report of RRI says this prediction is based on the ‘with subsidy’ case, which, in a very conservative estimate would require an additional 35 million hectares of land. This prediction was taken before the financial crisis come out.

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