RSPO Presentation Extended

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RSPORoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Promoting The Growth And

Use Of Sustainable Palm Oil

RSPO

www.rspo.org


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Outline

What is palm oil?

The need for sustainable palm oil

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Where we are today

Where we go from here


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It has the scent of violets,

the taste of olive oil and acolor which tinges food like

saffron but is more

attractive

Cada Mosto,15th century explorer,

on discovering palm oil.

What is palm oil?


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Palm Oil...

A highly versatile vegetable oil

Used in many food and non-food productsProduced in tropical countries

Rapidly growing market share

Worlds top selling vegetable oil

What is palm oil?


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Palm oil is used in more than half of packaged

supermarket products today

What is palm oil?


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0

10

20

30

40

50

1966 1976 1986 1996 2006

What is palm oil?

X

1milliontonn

es

Source: Oil World, MOPB, MPOC

World palm oil production has grown rapidly


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Palm oil is now the world's

most-produced vegetable oil

Rapeseed

14% Soy

29%

Palm

30%

Other

19%

Sunflower

8%

What is palm oil?

Source: Oil World, May, 2008


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Indonesia

Malaysia

Other

0

5

10

1990 1998 2007

What is palm oil?

X

1millionhectares


Palm tree cultivation has expanded significantly


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Two countries produce

most of the world's palm oil

Other15%

Malaysia

41%

Indonesia

44%

What is palm oil?



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Asia and the EU are world's major

importers of palm oil

Asia

55%

Africa

12%

Other

16%

Pakistan 6%

India

13%

China

18%

EU16%

Other Asia

19%

What is palm oil?




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Oil palms..

are highly efficient producers of oil

require less land than other oil crops

What is palm oil?


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Soybean: 0.36

Sunflower: 0.42

Rapeseed: 0.59

Oil palm: 3.68

What is palm oil?

Source: Oil World

Average yield per year (tonnes of oil per hectare)


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More than 1 millionworkers

More than 3 million

smallholders

Many more

household members

Why sustainable palm oil?

Millions of people are

dependent on palm oil


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Land ownership conflicts

Workers rights and conditions

Treatment of smallholders

Social issues in oil palm cultivation


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Forest, peatland

conversion

Climate change

Biodiversity loss

Environmental issues in oil palm cultivation


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The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil:

Started in 2003, with 7 members

Multi-stakeholder group

Promotes the growth and use of sustainable oil

palm products through global standards

Among its principles:

Respect for rights of land owners, farm workers,smallholders and their families

No primary forests or high conservation value areas

sacrificed for new palm oil plantations

The Roundtable


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Today*: 249 RSPO members

67 oil palm growers

96 palm oil processors, traders

5 social, developmental NGOs

13 environmental NGOs

36 consumer goods manufacturers24 retailers

8 banks and investors

The Roundtable

* September, 2008


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Where we are today

RSPOs preparations:

Code of Conduct for members

Independent certification bodies

Principles, specific criteria and indicators for

sustainable palm oil production

Supply chain certification systemsGuidelines on communication and claims


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Code of Conduct: Every member supports,promotes and works towards the production,

procurement and use of sustainable palm oil

Grievance panel supervises compliance

Where we are today


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Sustainability Principles:

Transparency

Use best practices

Care for environment,

natural resources,

and biodiversity

Consider rights ofworkers, smallholders

Develop new plantings

responsibly

Where we are today


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Specific social criteria and indicators:

Rights to the land not legitimately contested

Workers pay and conditions provide decent living

The right to form trade unions is respected

Health and safety plan implemented

Smallholders treated fairly by mills

Where we are today


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Specific environmental criteria and indicators:

Since November 2005, new plantings did not replace

primary forests or high conservation value areas

Erosion and degradation of soils are minimized

Pollution and waste is reduced

Use of fires is avoided

Where we are today


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Respecting diversity:

national interprations of guidelines

Where we are today

Papua New Guinea (April, 2008)Malaysia (April, 2008)

Indonesia (May, 2008)

Colombia / L. America (in progress)See: www.rspo.org


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Plantation, mill certification procedure

Where we are today

Approved certification bodies listed on RSPO website

Audit by certification body (1 month notice)

Unit of certification: oil mill and suppliers

Compliance with Principles, Criteria and Indicators

Phase I: Document review

Phase II: Field checks, stakeholder interviews

Audit Report, summary published online


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Where we are today

Plantations

Refiners &

Blenders Ingredient

Manufacturers

Retailers

Mill

Product

Manufacturers

Transport & Shipping

The palm oil supply chain:

Many links

Potential for mixing

Smallholders

S O


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Supply chain certification systems: monitoring

Identity preserved:

Sustainable oil kept apart, traceable to plantation

Segregation:

Mixing of sustainable palm oil batches is allowed

Mass Balance:

Mixing of sustainable and conventional oil allowed,if monitored administratively

Designed and managed by Utz Certified,

www.utzcertified.org

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain certification system: Identity Preserved

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain certification system: Segregation

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain certification system: Mass Balance

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain certification system: credit trading

Book and Claim:

- No tracking, tracing or monitoring of oil

- Growers, end-users trade volume credits online

Designed and managed by GreenPalm,

www.greenpalm.org

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain system: Book and Claim

Where we are today

RSPO


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Supply chain certification procedure

Where we are today

Verifies movement of oil through supply chain

Step-by-step documentation

Short-term: self-assessmentsLong-term: third-party certification

Details: RSPO Supply Chain Certification Systems

See: www.rspo.org

RSPO


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Communication guidelines and claims

Specify communication on production, procurement

and use of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil

Where we are today

Use of RSPO logo

Claim details

Story-telling on supply chain model

On-pack, about-product, corporate communications

RSPOtitle


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-Where we are today

Two possible claims in communication, marketing:

... contains [only/.. %] RSPO-certified sustainable

palm oil

- Used with Identity Preserved, Segregation systems

... supports the production of RSPO-certified

sustainable palm oil (equivalent to .. % of the palmoil utilized)

- Used with Mass Balance, Book and Claim systems

RSPO


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Claims and corresponding supply chain systems: #1

Where we are today

Claim to be used

Prescribed supply chain

Prescribed supply base

This product contains [only/..%]

RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil

Identity

Preserved

Specific RSPO-

certified

plantation

Segregation

Several RSPO-

certified

plantations

RSPO


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Claim to be used

Prescribed supply chain

Prescribed supply base

Claims and corresponding supply chain systems: #2

Where we are today

... supports the production of RSPO-

certified sustainable palm oil (equivalent

to ..% of the palm oil utilized)

Mass Balance

RSPO-certified

+ conventional

plantations

Certificates

RSPO-certified

plantations

Book &

Claim

RSPO


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By end of 2008:

12 certification bodies

approved by RSPO350,000 hectares certified

Four supply chain certification

systems operationalCapacity to supply 1.5 million

tonnes of RSPO-certified

sustainable palm oil per year

Where we are today

RSPO


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Where we are today

DOWNLOAD CENTER

Key documents at www.rspo.org:

Statutes

Principles & Criteria

Criteria: National Interpretations

Code of Conduct

Certification Systems

Guidelines on Communication & Claims


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RSPO


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Engaging more than 3 million smallholders

They maintain 20% of acreage

RSPO Task Force on smallholders

Promotes smallholder interests within RSPO

Raises awareness among smallholders

Adapts RSPO standards and procedures

Develops group certification protocol


RSPO


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By end of 2009:Capacity to supply 3

million tonnes per year

(8% of production)

Ultimately,RSPO aims to see

all the worlds palm oil

produced in a

sustainable way

RSPO


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Thank You!

RSPO Secretariat

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

WWW.RSPO.ORGTelephone : +60 3 6203 5969

Email : [email protected]

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