Sustainable Palm oil production

In reflection with the coronavirus pandemic, this article relates the challenges of climate change. In order to effectively fight climate change, strong collaboration and investment while ensuring people can put food on the table is crucial.

RSPO secretary general Darrel Webber speaks to Eco-Business in an exclusive interview on the industry group's plans to engage its diverse membership to strengthen its certification and make sustainable palm oil a global norm.

RSPO's outgoing CEO Datuk Darrel Webber says that most of its members are compliant in sustainable planting practices but the government needs to look into factors beyond control of plantation companies to fight the haze problem. This also dovetails into the imminent dangers of climate change which need inter-governmental action.