Malaysia should move swiftly to strengthen its proposed National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights by ensuring that ...

Priorities should include meeting Malaysia's domestic and international commitments to halt and reverse deforestation, and to ...

Governments in major palm oil exporters Malaysia and Indonesia have been aiming to regulate the industry. Two recent victories are a small part of this journey.

(Left) Rainforest deforestation for oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. (Right) Soy fields next to Gran Chaco forest in Bolivia. Images by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. “The difficulty of meeting ...

This could channel more funding into better-quality forest conservation projects. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Transboundary haze, a recurring issue in the region, is expected to be one of the key topics discussed at the inaugural Kuala Lumpur Sustainability Summit (KLSS) from Oct 14 to 16, said Natural ...

A new study suggests that RSPO certification can make a farm less efficient, both before and after the certification has been ...

Crude palm oil (CPO) prices have doubled since 2015 but plantation stocks have underperformed CPO ones by 69% over the same ...

The environment is not a distant, abstract concern. It is here. It is now. It is about who breathes clean air, and who does ...