No more excuses: WWF Scorecard shows that palm oil buyers must do more to stimulate sustainable production
WWF media release - Embargoed to 0800 GMT, 1500 Jakarta time 12 November 2013.Medan, Indonesia. Palm oil buyers are doing more than before but not nearly enough to encourage responsible growers to reduce the adverse impacts of producing the world’s most popular vegetable oil in some of the most vulnerable tropical habitats around the world. The 2013 edition of WWF’s Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard, released on the opening day of the annual conference of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), identified Belgian processor Ecover, confectionary company Ferrero Trading, homegoods giant