Sustainable Palm Oil

Who Cares?By Jeremy Washington

Contents

1. Aim

2. Environmental Significance/ Collage

3. Consequences/ Supporting Details

4. Possible Solutions

5. Sources

Aim

“I’m here to persuade you that unsustainable palm oil production practices are an economic and environmental problem that directly affect our lives and the lives of communities across

the world.”

Consequences/ Supporting Details

• Mass deforestation by burning forests

• Animal Cruelty

• Workers rights/ Child labor

• Unsustainable Solutions

• Palm Oil is everywhere! • Ex. Dunkin Donuts, Kellog’s, Starbucks, L’Oreal, McDonald’s…

Consequences/ Supporting Details

• Emissions• Climate change, rising sea levels, water quality, clean water

shortages

• 10% of total global warming emissions can be linked to burning forest for palm oil plantations

• Endangered Sumatran Tigers

• Indigenous rights abuses

Possible Solutions

• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil• ‘greenwash scheme’

• Grassroots organizing• Ex. Deforestation Doughnuts, Kellogg’s

• Consumer boycott

• Cheap sustainable palm oil production

Sources

• Regulating the Oil Palm Boom: Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Governance Approaches to Agro-industrial Pollution in Indonesia

• National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia

• World Wildlife Fund

• Union of Concerned Scientists

• Years of Living Dangerously