Background

Update: supply & demand
See: RSPO Market Center


General introductions
to the RSPO

Fact sheets (pdf)
Slide presentation (pdf)
FAQ


RSPO's full
'Principles and Criteria'

Principles and criteria for sustainable palm oil production (pdf)


RSPO's 600+ members

Member database
Certified traders
Certified growers


FEATURED QUESTION

Q: A company says it acts responsibly but its product does not actually contain sustainable palm oil. How can that be?
A: The RSPO wants to enable every company that produces or uses palm oil to help make palm oil production sustainable. That is why it has set up alternative systems that enable companies or consumers to support certified sustainable palm growers without the need to trace oil all the way through a long and complex supply chain. Read more

More answers to frequently asked questions


WWW.RSPO.ORG

Full RSPO website providing all reports, notifications, calls for comment, official documents and more.

RSPO Press Room

This page links contains media-related information on palm oil, sustainable palm oil, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Links to images and video files are provided as well.
Members of the media are encouraged to check the list of frequently asked questions and to subscribe to RSPO's e-mail news flash. For more information, feel free to contact the RSPO's EU Communications helpdesk.

News releases
 
  Dec 2011: The Thai Palm Oil Industry is ready for sustainable palm oil production...
  Nov 2011: World's Largest Gathering On Sustainable Palm Oil Kicks Off
  Nov 2011: RSPO Appoints Former Indonesian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry as Advisor
  Oct 2011: 800 Delegates From Over 15 Countries To Attend RT9 In Borneo
  Oct 2011: McDonald’s Joins The RSPO
  Oct 2011: Surge In Market Uptake Of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
  Sept 2011: RSPO Supports Dutch Industry's Call...
  Aug 2011: 1 Million Hectare World Record for Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
  Aug 2011: Sabah to Host World's Largest Sustainable Palm Oil Meeting
  Aug 2011: Greasing the way to sustainable palm oil
  Aug 2011: RSPO is aimed at obtaining stakeholders' support
  Aug 2011: Major Headway for the United States in the RSPO
  Jul 2011: Cargill Commits to Supply RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm Oil to ...
  Jul 2011: Carrefour Indonesia Contributes To Market Transformation Towards ...
  Jun 2011: Malaysia expected to maintain position as world's largest producer of ...
  Jun 2011: Real consumers' participation in green palm oil product selection
  Jun 2011: Malaysia sets record as world's largest producer of certified sustainable palm oil
  Jun 2011: 3rd Meeting of the Network on Promotion of Sustainable Palm Oil in China
  May 2011: RSPO Trademark: next phase in transformation to sustainable palm oil
  May 2011: Indonesia: Benchmark for sustainable palm oil in emerging markets
  May 2011: RSPO to add information to European Commission EU-RED application
  Apr 2011: RSPO comments on proposed Australian palm oil labeling bill
  Apr 2011: Announcement on PT Dutapalma Nusantara by RSPO Grievance Panel
  Apr 2011: RSPO Grievance panel requests IOI to solve breaches of RSPO Code of Conduct
  Apr 2011: Golden Agri Resources (GAR) joins the RSPO
  Mar 2011: RSPO approves Ghana interpretation of its Principles and Criteria
  Jan 2011: Sustainable palm oil grew strongly in 2010
  Jan 2011: Certified supply continued to expand, sales more than tripled
  Jan 2011: First palm oil producer in South America RSPO-certified
  Jan 2011: Meet RSPO's new Secretary General: Darrel Webber

2010
 
  Nov 2010: RSPO appoints Darrel Webber as new Secretary General
  Nov 2010: Roundtable meeting adopts ideas from palm growers, NGOs
  Nov 2010: RSPO celebrates first 25,000 certified palm oil family farms
  Nov 2010: RSPO unveils sustainable palm oil trademark
  Nov 2010: Holland commits to 100% sustainable palm oil in 2015
  Oct 2010: Joint Statement by GAR, SMART, IMT and RSPO Grievance Panel
  Oct 2010: RSPO to launch trade in physical palm kernel products
  Oct 2010: RSPO-certified palm oil capacity doubled since one year ago
  Sep 2010: RSPO, SMART, GAR agree to develop action points
  Sep 2010: RSPO Grievance Panel specifies required responses from PT SMART, GAR
  Jul 2010: RSPO expands to support growing market for sustainable palm oil
  Jul 2010: RSPO Secretariat expanded, restructured
  Jul 2010: Multi-lingual online ‘How to begin’ tool proving popular
  Jun 2010: Daily sustainable palm oil production surpasses 5,000 tonnes mark
  Jun 2010: Segregated sustainable palm oil arrives to the U.S.
  Jun 2010: 'There is growing pressure from consumers'
  Apr 2010: Sales of certified oil continue to rise rapidly
  Apr 2010: RSPO launches simple tool: How to begin using sustainable palm oil
  Apr 2010: French market warming up to sustainable palm oil
  Mar 2010: RSPO response to public allegations of non-sustainable practices
  Feb 2010: January sales of sustainable palm oil matched production
  Feb 2010: GreenPalm and UTZ reduce fees on sustainable palm oil
  Feb 2010: RSPO publishes approved market claim wordings

2009
 
  Nov 2009: Work to continue on criteria related to carbon emissions (pdf)
  Nov 2009: More efforts to engage owners of small plantations (pdf)
  Nov 2009: RSPO helps preserve Sumatran orangutan habitat (pdf)
  Oct 2009: Trade in sustainable palm oil has taken off (pdf)
  Jun 2009: Sustainable palm oil production passes major milestone (pdf)
  May 2009: Supply of sustainable palm oil continues to grow (pdf)
  Feb 2009: Production of sustainable palm oil swells to 1.3 million tonnes/yr (pdf)

2008
 
  Nov 2008: First shipment of CSPO unloaded in Rotterdam (pdf)
  Nov 2008: World's first sustainable palm oil to arrive in Europe (pdf)

Images related to sustainable palm oil
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MARKET CENTER

For companies interested in the RSPO or ready to begin using or marketing sustainable palm oil.


PRESS ROOM

For reporters interested in news, background, images, video or contact details.


PRESENTATION CENTER

Download presentations from the 8th Roundtable meeting on Sustainable Palm Oil.


STORY IDEAS

Reuters logo

Read a sample of recent Reuters coverage of sustainable palm oil.

BBC item

Listen to a BBC Radio 4 broadcast about the RSPO,
OR, watch a BBC slide show on how palm oil impacts a village in Indonesia's Kalimantan.

CNBC news item

Watch a CNBC news broadcast on the RSPO.

CNBC news item

Read the Malaysia Star's take on what's going on at the RSPO.