{"id":6114,"date":"2011-09-30T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:27:10","slug":"sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/09\/30\/sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable palm oil: Nestl\u00e9 supply deal may be a game changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/supply-chains\/sustainable-palm-oil-nestl%C3%A9-supply-deal-may-be-game-changer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6118\" title=\"Sustainable palm oil: Nestl\u00e9 supply deal may be a game changer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/111108_nestle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A recent decision by food giant Nestl\u00e9 to  re-instate a previously banned palm oil supplier on sustainability  grounds may help make the business case for more sustainable palm oil.  Alex Wilson reports. Mid-September 2011 was a significant moment in the world of sustainable palm oil. After months of long conversations between Greenpeace and the Forest  Trust, and a lot more hard work on sustainability policies and improved  practices, food giant Nestl\u00e9 resumed purchasing from the Indonesian Palm  Oil producer Smart. In March 2010 Nestl\u00e9 had dropped Smart and its parent company Golden  Agri-Resources (GAR) as a supplier of palm oil, as a result of  Greenpeace campaigns against the company. The campaign group had accused  SMART of rainforest destruction for the planting of oil palm trees in  Indonesia. Smart is ultimately part of the controversial Sinar Mas group, which  owns Smart\u2019s parent firm, Golden Agri Resources. The exact connections  between all the companies in the group are not easily available, but  Sinar Mar links to Smart on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinarmas.com\/en\/agribusiness-and-food\">corporate website<\/a>. In turn, Sinar Mas is ultimately controlled by the Widjaja family,  which also owns Asia Pulp &amp; Paper, a company held to be one of the  world\u2019s most irresponsible by environmental campaign groups, and a long  standing Greenpeace target. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/supply-chains\/sustainable-palm-oil-nestl%C3%A9-supply-deal-may-be-game-changer\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Indonesia | Company: Nestl\u00e9 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/supply-chains\/sustainable-palm-oil-nestl%C3%A9-supply-deal-may-be-game-changer\" target=\"_blank\">Ethical Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent decision by food giant Nestl\u00e9 to re-instate a previously banned palm oil supplier on sustainability grounds may help make the business case for more sustainable palm oil. Alex Wilson reports. Mid-September 2011 was a significant moment in the world of sustainable palm oil. After months of long conversations between Greenpeace and the Forest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nestle","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}