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["Status","1.0 RSPO Member Particulars - Member Name","1.0 RSPO Member Particulars - Membership Number","1.0 RSPO Member Particulars - Membership Sector","1.0 RSPO Member Particulars - Membership Category","1.0 RSPO Member Particulars - Country","2.0 Does your company or organisation produce, process, consume or sell any palm oil or any products containing derivatives of palm oil?","2.1 Please select all description(s) that describe the palm oil-related activities of your company or organisation. Multiple selections are allowed, and not limited to the primary sector of the member's RSPO membership. You will be required to complete the relevant ACOP section based on your selection(s). \n \nFor Environmental/Conservation NGO and Social/Development NGO RSPO members that consume or retail palm oil or products containing palm oil, you will be required to answer the relevant supply chain sector ACOP form that must include the volumes of palm oil or products containing palm oil consumed or retailed under your organisation's own brands. ‚ç∞","2.2 Please select all the sectors that best describe the business activities of your company or organisation, including your primary RSPO membershop sector. You may select multiple sectors and will be required to complete the ACOP form for the relevant sectors ‚ç∞","AF.1.1 What are the main activities of your organisation?","AF.1.2 What activities has your organisation undertaken to promote sustainable palm oil, the RSPO and/or RSPO members in the reporting period? ‚ç∞","AF.1.3 What percentage of your organisation's overall activities focus on palm oil? ‚ç∞","AF.1.4 Did members of your organisation participate in RSPO working groups and/or taskforces in the reporting period? ‚ç∞","AF.1.5 Does your organisation have any past or on-going collaborations with public or private sector palm oil industry players to support them in their efforts to increase the production or consumption of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO)? ‚ç∞","AF.1.6 How is your organisation's work on palm oil funded?","AF.2.1 Please outline activities that your organisation will take in the coming year to promote the production or consumption of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) ‚ç∞","CS.1.1 What significant obstacles or challenges has your company  encountered in the promotion of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO)? What efforts has your company taken to address these obstacles or challenges? - Selected Choice","CS.1.1 What significant obstacles or challenges has your company  encountered in the promotion of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO)? What efforts has your company taken to address these obstacles or challenges? - Others - Text","CS.1.2 In addition to the actions already reported in this ACOP report, what other ways has your company supported the vision of the RSPO to transform markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm? ‚ç∞ - Selected Choice","CS.1.2 In addition to the actions already reported in this ACOP report, what other ways has your company supported the vision of the RSPO to transform markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm? ‚ç∞ - Others - Text","CS.1.3 If your company has any other publicly-available reports or information regarding its palm oil-related policies and activities, please provide the links here ‚ç∞"]
[null,"Alioth","9-0695-14-000-00","Supply Chain Group Manager","Associate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Consultancy and auditing","We are RSPO SCC Group Manager. We provide training on RSPO certification. Training always contains the explanation on why\nsustainable palm oil is necessary and why switching to alternatives is not a good option. Also we visit retailers and provide free\ntraining on RSPO SCC certification.",60,"No","No","Funding is based on group membership fees that must be paid for being part of our RSPO SCC group.","We will proceed with providing (free) training on RSPO SCC certification.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Supply issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO",null,"N/A"]
[null,"NEPCon F.M.B.A","8-0245-20-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Estonia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Environmental and conservation projects, projects related to legality in timber and agriculture sectors, and certification (RSPO SCC, Forest Stewardship Council, Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, Rainforest Allaince, Sustainable Rice Platform, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Biomass Partnership, LegalSource, and carbon management). \n","As an accredited CB for RSPO SCC, we provide information about RSPO SCC certification on our website: https://www.preferredbynature.org/certification/rspo. We are in the process of becoming P&C accredited.  \n\nWe are also carrying out a project called ‚ÄòSustainability Reporting for Palm Oil Companies‚Äô. The objective is to promote best practices in sustainability reporting around palm oil production in Indonesia. Preferred by Nature develops a training program aimed at supporting Indonesian palm oil firms who are either legally required or interested in voluntary reporting of their sustainability-related practices. \n\nThe online education course will build on the efforts and materials already developed for firms in the sector in Indonesia with a clear emphasis on best practices, key metrics, and reporting styles already championed and tested globally, combined with Danish expertise in sustainability reporting.\n",1,"No","Yes","Our RSPO SCC certification service is funded directly by the client; for non-certification palm oil-related projects, the financing comes from the respective project funds (government or private grants, other NGO's funding, or internal funding).","We will carry out our RSPO SCC services and continue to promote RSPO through our website. In 2021 we hope to become P&C accredited. ","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Others","It has proven to be very difficult to enter the market of P&C certification. We have all our systems ready and checked by ASI, but until now we haven't been able to find a company that would like to have their certification audit while we ar being witnessed by ASI to become accredited. ","We joined the Polish Sustainable Plam OIl coalition: https://preferredbynature.org/newsroom/polish-coalition-pledges-achieve-100-uptake-sustainable-palm-oil-country-2023\n\nWe have developed risk assessments for the main palm oil countries, which can be found in our Sourcing Hub: https://preferredbynature.org/sourcinghub/palm-oil/palm-oil-indonesia-kalimantan\n\nSustainable reporting for palm oil companies: https://preferredbynature.org/projects/sustainability-reporting-palm-oil-companies"]
[null,"PT AIHIKA SAWALA EKOTROPIKA","8-0244-20-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We provide consultation services, technical assistance, and trainings for the purpose of sustainable production of palm oil and other commodity.","'- We provide consultation services, technical assistance, and trainings mainly for the purpose of sustainable palm oil production and RSPO New Planting Procedures and Certification.\n- We are also actively reaching smallholders and our non-member grower clients to encourage them to be part of the RSPO organizations.",90,"No","Yes","We believe that sustainability should be at the core of every business and thus we believe that our work, which is within the system of RSPO, is on the right track.","We are planning to collaborate with stakeholders such as academics, CSO/NGO, and member growers/producers in providing public trainings or learning outreach of conservation area (i.e., HCV and/or HCS) management and monitoring for large group of growers, including smallholders, smallholder groups, and small-to-medium non-member corporate growers.","High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement",null,"www.ecotrop.id"]
[null,"PT. Van Aroma","8-0242-20-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Van Aroma's main activities is in essential oil, isolates, aroma molecules and botanical extracts production. We are not directly involved in any palm oil or its derivatives production.","We put RSPO logo in our website (https://www.vanaroma.com/about.php), and mention that we are a member of RSPO community.",0,"No","No","N/A, we are not directly involved with palm oil or its derivatives production.","Since we are not directly involved in the production or consumption of CSPO, we will only promote RSPO by putting the logo in our website.","Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"No actions taken",null,"N/A"]
[null,"The International Natural and Organic Cosmetics Association (NATRUE)","8-0239-20-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Belgium","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","NATRUE AISBL, the International Natural and Organic Cosmetics Association, has the mission to protect and promote natural and organic cosmetics for the benefits of consumers worldwide. In the absence of an official regulatory definition for these claims, including global harmonization, NATRUE has established a private, voluntary standard setting label criteria whose requirements can be validated by approved third-party control bodies to certify finished products and raw materials.","Consumers and companies are increasingly more focused on sustainability as a criteria for the selection of their products, including cosmetics. In 2020, NATRUE concluded the criteria to include cover palm (kernel) oil and its derivatives together with the release of V3.9 of the NATRUE standard (https://www.natrue.org/our-standard/natrue-criteria-2/), which included explict reference to palm oil in Section 5.4.1. On 01/01/2021 the criteria became implementable by all NATRUE approved certifiers for all applicants (existing and new raw material and finished products) globally.\n\n\nNATRUE continues to presented and promoted the NATRUE standard across the EU and around the world, and emphasizes the criterion related to certified sustainable palm oil - highlighting RSPO. NATRUE has also communicated about sustainable palm oil to its membership in a regular newsletter and upon membership promoted RSPO via its website (https://www.natrue.org/natrue-becomes-member-of-rspo/).",5,"Yes","No","NATRUE AISBL is funded by: \n\ndirect membership contributions (as per our statutes: https://www.natrue.org/uploads/2019/03/en_natrue_aisbl_-statutes_-2013_.pdf)\n\nthrough label fees from NATRUE label users which can include members of the association (https://www.natrue.org/our-standard/certification-process-step-step/)","Continued promotion of the criteria introduced within V3.9 of the NATRUE standard with stakeholders in the NATRUE label (raw material suppliers and finished cosmetic product manufacturers), as well as with consumers, and at various tradeshows, congresses and other speaking opportunities globally. ","Supply issues,Traceability issues,Others","The outstanding issue for cosmetics principally concerns palm (kernel) oil derivatives in that not all raw material suppliers for cosmetics are, to-date, able to adapt their procedures so that all substances containing palm (kernel) oil derivatives are minimum mass balanced quality. NATRUE works within its scientific committee in charge for developing its label criteria within the NATRUE standard on\nhow to close these gaps by engaging with raw material suppliers. The NATRUE standard annexes (https://www.natrue.org/our-standard/natrue-criteria-2/) - Annex 3 - includes reference to where a particular derivative is available in minimum mass balanced quality and must be used as such.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Stakeholder engagement,Others","NATRUE has spoken at a number of trade fairs, including the largest for natural and organic cosmetics, VIVANESS, to present the sustainable palm oil criteria for the standard, which includes reference to RSPO. NATRUE is frequently contacted by consumers asking about our position in relation to palm oil and that of our label users and members. Consequently, NATRUE continues to promotes sustainable palm oil use by reference to the criterion in our standard. As indicated above, NATRUE works with its scientific committee (experts from the NATRUE membership and external industry experts) to benchmark outstanding raw materials containing palm (kernel) oil and its derivatives and find the gaps in order to take contact with suppliers. Availability of new minimum MB grade raw materials are automatically recorded on our Annexes and a review of all substances is carried out at least once a year. ","Our communication on joining RSPO has been published here: https://www.natrue.org/natrue-becomes-member-of-rspo/. \n\nThe NATRUE standard\nand its annexes with an update to follow shortly on this criterion can be found at: https://www.natrue.org/our-standard/natrue-criteria-2/\n\nNATRUE has also prepared a factsheet on palm oil here: https://www.natrue.org/uploads/2019/08/NATRUE_Factsheets_Palm-oil.pdf"]
["Late","Destinalogistic, SA","8-0238-20-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Spain","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","LSP \nLogistic Service Provider","working logistics for reliable companies",0,"No","No","just acting as LSP","just involved in logistics for hazardous packed chemicals in iberia","No challenges faced",null,"No actions taken",null,"NA"]
["Late","Fortune Palm Pte Ltd","8-0237-20-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Singapore","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Brokerage and analyst","NA",90,"No","No","NA","NA","No challenges faced",null,"No actions taken"]
["Late","Robert Jacques Kruger","8-0236-20-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","South Africa","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Environmental and social support/consulting to the palm oil industry.","Review and comment on RSPO Ps and Cs.\nApplication of RSPO Ps and Cs to complaints process.\nProfessional environmental, social and governance contribution to the RSPO Complaints Panel process.",1,"No","No","No funding required, time is voluntary.","Continued contribution to the RSPO Complaints Panel.\nAttendance of technical working groups where possible.","Others","No specific direct challenges with the industry.\nSome general concern about the future of palm oil usage by large market players seeking to avoid future reputational damage. This may however not be an immediate real issue as there are few feasible substitution alternative for palm oil based products currently.","Stakeholder engagement,Others","Some discussion with the financial services industry and the role they can play in encouraging/demanding RSPO membership for respective customers involved in the palm oil markets.","None."]
[null,"Yoshitsugu Shirasaki","8-0235-19-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","Japan","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Holding seminars and consulting about RSPO SCCS.","Promoting RSPO and RSPO SCCS.",100,"No","Yes","Consulting fee mainly.","Several seminars and consulting.","Difficulties in the certification process,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO",null,"N/A"]
["Late","Orbital Insight (Singapore Branch)","8-0229-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Singapore","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","AI software geospatial analytics company. ","Supply chain traceability analytics using geospatial data. ",20,"No","No","We are a private technology software company. ","We are focused on supply chain traceability through our geospatial analytics platform. ","No challenges faced",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO"]
[null,"ETANTE Limited","8-0226-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","ETANTE is a sustainability consultancy that facilitates the Retailers' Palm Oil Group (RPOG), amongst other supply chain work.","Julian Walker-Palin, MD of ETANTE, is a member of the RSPO Board of Governors as a retail representative. He also facilitates the RPOG group of 13 global retailers and directly sits on the Market Development Standing Committee and Shared Responsibility Working Group.",20,"Yes","Yes","Subscriptions via RPOG members.","Continue to facilitate the RPOG group of 13 retailers and to sit on the RSPO Board of Governors as a retail representative.","Others","ETANTE has identified the same challenges as all retail members of the RSPO, as well as having taken part in Board of Governors discussions that included all of the areas listed.","Others","Member of the RSPO Board of Governors and RPOG facilitator.","https://www.rpog.org/"]
["Late","Malaysia Logistics Innovation Berhad","8-0225-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Malaysia Logistics Innovation Berhad (MLIB), a company incorporated in Malaysia set up for the purpose of the establishment of the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI). MISI features Master's program in supply chain management and logistics. MISI is an independent, stand-alone degree granting academic institution established under the Malaysian law. Additionally, MISI conducts research and corporate outreach activities for global as well as local firms that operate in the Southeast Asia region.\nhttps://www.misi.edu.my/\n","Over a period of five years, the program aims to create 250 learning farms that will be embedded in a P&G-led innovation system. These farms together with the certification of 1,600 smallholders under the RSPO‚Äôs Independent Smallholder Certification Standard (RISS) will serve as community resource centers to drive scale and diffusion of good agricultural practices for up to 10,000 smallholders. For its wider PKO sourcing footprint for its oleo-chemicals plant in Malaysia, P&G is committed to ensure a robust compliance of its responsible sourcing policy through traceability and verification of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) to meet the No deforestation, no new plantation on peatlands, and no exploitation in the supply chain requirements (NDPE Policy).\n\n \n\n\n\n\n",50,"No","Yes","Through Industry Research Sponsorship\n","CSS continues to facilitate the P&G Smallholder Programme and support the traceability and verification of P&G Palm Kernel Oil supply chain. CSS is also a service provider for tasks below:\n- To introduce the P&G Smallholder Programme to ISHFs \n- To train onboarded ISHFs towards RSPO Certification  \n- To provide technical support (e.g. agronomist) and non-technical support ( e.g. fertilizer scheme programme) \n- To support the Pertubuhan Tani Niaga Lestari Negeri Johor (PERTANIAGA) Association in obtaining RSPO certification under RISS Initiative.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Certification of smallholders,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement",null,"'-\n"]
[null,"GROUPE GM","8-0221-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","France","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We develop products amenities for hotel market.\n\nWe don't manufacture and we don't sell. Our incomes only come from commissions.","We promote sustainable palm oil through our website and soap packagings.\n",20,"No","No","Our work on palm oil is founded by commissions received from developed soaps.","We will still promote through our website and soap packagings.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Certification of smallholders",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO"]
[null,"NTN Bearing-Malaysia Sdn Bhd","8-0220-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Wholesale and distribution of NTN brand of ball & roller bearings for both industrial and automotive applications in Malaysia. ","No activities in 2020 in view of the MCO and Covid-19 pandemic impact.",5,"No","No","Not applicable","At the moment, we have no planned activities for promoting the production or consumption of CSPO. However, we will try to promote the concept & awareness of RSPO in our marketing activities (e.g. exhibition, leaflet, etc), with prior consent from RSPO on the usage of RSPO logo/sign. ","No challenges faced",null,"No actions taken",null,"N/A"]
[null,"Dr. Frank Roland Schroder","8-0219-19-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Consultancy","Active support of the palm oil sector by communication of the benefits of sustainable palm oil, palm kernel oil, and derivatives thereof",5,"No","No","Using own financial resources","Further strengthen the communication on the benefits of using sustainable palm oil, palm kernel oil, and derivatives thereof in Europe via multi channel communication","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Competition with non-RSPO members,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations",null,"No additional information aailable"]
["Late","S&P Global Inc.","8-0218-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United States","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Price Reporting Agency","Provide price transparency for Palm Oil and Derivatives",1,"No","No","self funded","continue to provide price transparency to the market","Others","lack of communication from the RSPO","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO",null,"n/a"]
[null,"Matthias Wilfried Diemer","8-0217-19-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","Switzerland","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Various services in the field of sustainability","Participation in the Complaints Panel\nVarious discussions and meetings with retailers, manufacturers about sustainable palm oil",80,"No","Yes","Direct income","Continuation in the RSPO Complaints Panel\nContinued interactions with various strakeholders about sustainable palm oil","Human rights issues,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Jose  Elisabeth Den Toom","8-0216-19-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Consultancy.","I have been a member of the Complaints Panel in 2020.",5,"No","No","As a volunteer, I pay for my work myself.","I will continue to be a member of the Complaints Panel.","Others","As a volunteer, this question is not applicable to my activities.","No actions taken",null,"not applicable"]
[null,"Alliance Belge pour une Huile de Palme Durable","8-0214-19-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Belgium","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Sensitize key stakeholders and consumers about the usage of sustainable palm oil through encouragement, guidance and empowerment, creation of synergies, and information provision.","Webinar about sustainable palm oil, government outreach, seminars with key stakeholders, responding to an RSPO call for offers on impact measurement",100,"No","Yes","Membership contribution","Outreach to government and key stakeholders, (social) media monitoring and messaging","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Competition with non-RSPO members,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Others","BASP undertook general awareness campaigns to inform key stakeholders about efforts towards sustainability of the sector in general, and of RSPO in particular","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://www.duurzamepalmolie.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BASP-Report-v6.pdf"]
["Late","APAVE Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.","8-0213-18-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification and Inspection (Construction, Oil, Gas & Energy)","Marketing, FORUM, Brochures, banners and booths in the future",100,"No","No","NIL","-","Others","-","Others","-","NIL"]
[null,"NextGreen Pulp and Paper Sdn. Bhd.","8-0212-18-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Manufacturing of pulp and paper products by using empty fruit bunches","Utilising empty fruit bunches (biomass leftover after the palm oil extraction) to produce other products\n\nAn an affiliate of RSPO",0,"No","Yes","currently no work on palm oil activities","assist palm oil mills in their oil palm biomass management issue","Difficulties in the certification process,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Stakeholder engagement,Others","To assist palm oil mill in their palm oil biomass management issues\nTo fully utilise palm oil biomass (EFB) to make pulp and paper\nTo ensure supply chain of palm oil mill is sustainable ( i.e.no waste dispose\nTo purchase EFb from RSPO certified mill\nTo engage with stakeholders to promote RSPO's vision on sustainable palm oil","N/A"]
[null,"BUREAU VERITAS CERTIFICATION (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD","8-0211-18-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Bureau Veritas Certification (M) Sdn Bhd is an accredited RSPO Certification Body which provides RSPO Principles & Criteria\ncertification to the certificate holders and new prospect.\n","As an accredited RSPO Certification Body by Assurance Services International (ASI), BVC commited to provide quality\nassessment and verification activities on the RSPO P&C certificate holder to ensure their fullcompliance against RSPO\nrequirements.\n",30,"No","Yes","As an independent certification body, we are voluntary appointed by certificate holders. The certification contract detailed out\nservices to be carried out by BVC and its incurred cost for the services.\n","We are committed to market our certification services to any oil palm growers to encourage them towards sustainable palm oil\nproduction initiative. This willalso be communicated through our company's website.\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Others","Throughout the certification services provided, BVC have faced challenges in several aspects such as high cost of certification and the limited awareness by the growers in getting RSPO certification. For instance since the C-19 pandemic, audit realization using audit facilitator and remote audit are the new challenges, both for CB and the clients.\nOver the year, we have actively promoting the sustainability certification as well as indirectly educate them on sustainable palm oil.\n","Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement",null,"Not applicable"]
[null,"Agricultural Industries Confederation Limited","8-0209-18-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Agricultural Industries Confederation Ltd (AIC) is a trade association for the agri-supply industry, representing its members in sectors such as animal feed, fertiliser, crop protection, grain and seed,environment and policy.\n AIC works in support of modern, sustainable, commercial agriculture and within each sector provides tchnical advice and lobbies with governement and non-government bodies.\n\nAIC Services is the professional services arm of AIC, providing trade assurance schemes, management services, events and training within the agri supply industry.  ","AIC Services operates a RSPO Credits purchase scheme to support its feed sector members and trade assurance participants who are not direct supply chain members of RSPO.\n\nOur members have been kept informed of events, policy and updates from RSPO where relevant to the animal feed sector. \nWe have liaised with retailers on sustainability policy and RSPO with respect to the supply chain of palm oil and derivatives into animal feed and thereby into the human consumer supply.",2,"No","No","AIC membership fees fund information provision and the operation of our RSPO Credit purchase scheme.","AIC will maintain its RSPO Credit purchase scheme for members of the AIC Feed sector and trade assurance participants and encourage its use among members to build the use of CSPO within animal feed supply chains.\nWe will continue to develop knowledge and awareness of sustainable plam oil within the animal feed sector via website updates and information sent to members and provided to AIC committees.","Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Others","Among palm oil users that are members of AIC, larger businesses are direct supply chain members of RSPO.  The AIC Palm OIl Credit Scheme (APOCS) exists to offer an alternative route for smaller users of palm oil.\nSome of our members use other certification schemes, not RSPO, for accreditation of their palm oil supply.\n\nThe challenge to the use of palm oil in animal feed is rising in the retail sector due to consumer awareness and focus has been trained on sustainability of the whole supply change of meat, dairy and other livestock products.  Alternatives to palm oil and derivatives are being investigated and trialled.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Others","AIC attend the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil"]
[null,"PLATINUM SHAUFFMANTZ VERITAS SDN.BHD.","8-0208-18-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","As a global player in the certification business, PSV offers a wide range of certification services to assist organisation to penetrate the local, regional and international markets. Our experience auditors are from various fields and areas of expertise which include management systems & product certification . It is PSV‚Äôs role as a certification body to provide world class best practices and with all its valued customers to excel by continually improving their business through certification of best practices."," to promote certification services to encourage oil palm companies in Malaysia and International to get the RSPO Principle and Criteria Certification.",90,"Yes","Yes","Not involved","Will promote certification services to encourage oil palm companies in Malaysia and International to get the RSPO Principle and Criteria Certification.","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support",null,"not available"]
[null,"PALM KING MARKETING SDN BHD","8-0204-18-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Affiliates. We are comprehensive agriculture tools manufacturing and marketing company based in Selangor, Malaysia. With our own manufacturing factory incorporated since 1986, we have grown to be a reputable manufacturer producer of agricultural harvesting tools with more than 30 years' experiences.","In line to promote sustainable palm oil along the supply chain :- \n\n1. We will work with all parties to support / promote sustainable palm oil activity.\n2. We are using the social media platform to spread the sustainable palm oil activity.\n3. We are make sure to respect land tenure rights.",50,"No","No","Engagement with government agencies.","Media Social & Press Releases","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Human rights issues,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies",null,"Website : www.klspalmking.com \nFacebook : Palm King Marketing Sdn. Bhd. / KLS Palm King"]
[null,"CONSEJO MEXICANO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LA PALMA DE ACEITE, A.C. (COMEXPALMA)","8-0203-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Mexico","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","\nComexpalma‚Äôs main activities are:\nI.\tTo nationally represent the leading actors in the productive chain of oil palm in Mexico, striving towards achieving its integrated development. It also seeks to optimize and amplify the coordination between producers, the industry, and, generally, between all the stakeholders related directly or indirectly to the oil palm productive chain, such as the federal, state, and municipal governments, as well as financial, academic, or research institutions.\nII.\tTo advocate for an increase in productivity and production of oil palm, as well as to promote the planting of this crop, improving it alongside the commercialization and industrialization of the flesh and oil. These measures are taken in order to make this activity profitable and competitive, following sustainability and environmental protection criteria.\nIII.\tTo participate in the determination and direction of programs and financial support for its associates in coordination with private entities and the Federal, State, and Municipal governments.\nIV.\tTo carry out all kinds of acts and operations and to subscribe credit instruments under the terms of the General Law of Credit Instruments and Operations and all kinds of documents, including the granting of powers of attorney, as well as in general to carry out any kind of activities that may be necessary for the fulfillment of the corporate purpose of the company.\nV.\tTo purchase, sale, lease, sublease and manage all kinds of movable and immovable property, which are necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose of the corporation.\nVI.\tTo promote the integration of State Oil Palm Councils, as part of the operational structure of the National Council itself.\nVII.\tTo promote technological development in both agricultural production and oil palm industrialization.\nVIII.\tTo develop technical assistance and training programs for agricultural producers.\nIX.\tTo promote and manage financing that will enable members to obtain loans on favorable terms to boost their growth and productivity\n\n","In order to promote the production and trade of sustainable palm oil in Mexico, Comexpalma since 2017 promoted the certification standard of the Principles and Criteria of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and its adaptation to the national context. To achieve this, a National Interpretation of this standard was developed with the support of the firm E3 Consultor√≠a Ambiental S.C. with the purpose of facilitating the participation of the different stakeholders of the production chain in the country.\nIn February 2019, the national interpretation of the principles and criteria for Mexico was approved. This activity set the tone for the National Interpretation Public Consultation.  With the coordination and financing of COMEXPALMA, Aniame and the Government, the Public Consultation Forums were held in July 2019 in the oil palm producing states of Mexico with the participation of the RSPO technical manager in Latin America, Katherin Ibarra.\n\nFinally, on June 25, 2020, the effort, commitment and responsibility of the work team materialized with the approval of the 2018 RSPO National Interpretation of Principles and Criteria for Mexico by the RSPO Board of Directors, which is undoubtedly a great achievement for the entire production chain and the promotion of palm oil sustainability in Mexico..\n\nIn 2019 and 2020, courses on RSPO 2018 principles and criteria for Mexico were imparted. Due to the pandemic, they were held online..\n\nFurthermore, the Mexican Council for the Development of Palm Oil , in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy of the Mexican Federal Government, ANIAME, as well as a large number of participants and members of the palm oil production chain, who are committed to the sustainability of palm oil in Mexico, set out to work together on a Mexican Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil (F817-SCFI-2020) based on the principles and criteria of RSPO for Mexico 2018. After 26 months of hard work and a public consultation, on July 1, 2020, it was published in the Official Journal of the Federation with effect from January 2021.\n",100,"No","No","Managing financial support from the Federal Government with programs aimed at oil palm cultivation and participating in the determination and direction of such programs and supports for its associates in coordination with the Federal, State and Municipal Governments.","COMEXPALMA, together with aniame and with the support of the Federal Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economy, will inform the members of the oil palm production chain about the Mexican Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil as a sustainability certification framework.\n\nA virtual channel will be created where the different actors in the oil palm production chain will receive information on the RSPO 2018 principles and criteria for Mexico, information on the Mexican Standard for Sustainable Oil Palm, as well as training courses on various topics related to this crop. In this way, COMEXPALMA promotes RSPO certification and sustainability in Mexico, integrating all those involved in the oil palm production chain.\n\nThe book Tecnolog√≠a para la Producci√≥n de la Palma de Aceite en M√©xico will be updated jointly with the National Institute of Forestry Research (INIFAP) and the Ministry of Agriculture according to the sustainability guidelines established in the RSPO 2018 principles and criteria for Mexico and the Mexican Standard for Sustainable Oil Palm.\n\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies",null,"www.comexpalma.org\n"]
["Late","SKF MALAYSIA SDN BHD","8-0202-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Our expertise is built on the development, design and manufacturing of bearings, seal, lubrication systems and power transmission products. And we also provide machine health assessment, reliability engineering and  remanufacturing services.","We promote palm oil focus quality bearings and grease products to reduce the contamination and focus on performance and reduce wastage so palm oil products can be produced with sustainable practices. We also provide digitalization of palm oil mills maintenance practices so that efficient and effective maintenance practices can sustain all activities in production of palm oil products.",30,"No","No","Our activity to work on palm oil is funded by allocation from our sales organizations ","Actively engage refinery and palm oil millers (With CSPO) to digitize their maintenance and production processes, especially in Operator Driven Reliability Program. Target is to reach out to all major palm oil producers.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Others"," -","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Others","-","-"]
["Late","BCS √ñko Garantie Colombia S.A.S.","8-0200-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Colombia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","BCS OKO GARANTIE COLOMBIA S.A.S. belongs to the KIWA GROUP. The Kiwa that gives the present-day company its name was founded in 1948 by the Dutch drinking water companies, They wanted to safeguard drinking water supply in the country by having every item that might come into contact with drinking water, examined. In those days, KIWA (in capitals) was an acronym for Keuringsinstituut voor WaterleidingArtikelen (Institution for the Examination of Waterworks Articles). Nowadays, we've dropped the acronym as today's Kiwa comprises much more than just drinking water expertise. We're globally active in a wealth of markets, offering a broad range of products and services. \n\nKiwa BCS has more than 27 years of experience in organic certification and 4 years of experience in RSPO certification. In 1992, BCS was the first German certificate to be registered in accordance with the European Union Organic Regulation (EEC 2092/91). \nAccording to its versatile accreditations, records and collaborations, Kiwa BCS is able to provide access to all organic markets (Global Organic Market) all over the world at one time. \nKiwa BCS provides services in around 80 countries in the world with its local branches and local auditor network. We do so in a wide variety of markets segments, ranging from construction and energy supply to drinking water, healthcare, food, feed & farming. Areas of expertise include management systems, corporate social responsibility and lab testing, among many others. We have clients in manufacturing and process industries, (business) services, public and private utilities, governments and international institutions. Kiwa employs over 4.300 people in more than 100 offices in over 45 countries across the world, mainly in Europe, Asia and Latin America. \n\nWe have accreditation to provide RSPO Certification (P&C and SCC) with the following geographical scope: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru.\n\nWe also have accreditation and experience in other certification standards such as GLOBALG.A.P. and its Add-on modules, Food safety standards and authorization for 4C and ISCC.","We have published on social networks such as twitter, Facebook, on the Kiwa website, motivating the RSPO certification.\nMeetings with stakeholders motivating the certification process.",5,"Yes","No","It depends on the sales we make for the provision of the service.","BCS promotes the seal through meetings with clients, stakeholders, participation in RSPO events, seal publicity on our social networks and web pages. \n\nOther measures such as structurate auditions with other schemes so that the certification process can be accessed at lower costs. ","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Others","High costs of accreditation, mandatory requirement for to provide the certification service. \n\nEfforts: Increase the number of clients to be more competitive and we can more actively promote certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO). On the other hand we are in the process of expanding the geographical scope of our accreditation to be able to offer service in more places.","Engagement with government agencies,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Stakeholder engagement",null,"www.kiwa.com/lat/es/productos/certificacion-rspo/?\nfbclid=IwAR1fL8bsmphYxqeHWv1mwqXa9TONwkCBSPan5eiws3uOwTT75ciMww1POro Corporate social responsibility\nhttps://www.kiwa.com/en/about-kiwa/corporate-social-responsibility-csr/"]
[null,"ASOCIACION NACIONAL DE INDUSTRIALES DE ACEITES Y MANTECAS COMESTIBLES, A.C. (ANIAME)","8-0199-17-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Mexico","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDIBLE OILS & SHORTENING PRODUCERS, ANIAME, is the organization which represents the interests of oilseed and oil palm processing companies in Mexico. Our  members are crushing companies; crude oil refining companies; and companies consuming refined oils to produce products with higher added value. ANIAME¬¥s members seek to produce sustainable, quality & competitively priced oils & fats. To achieve this, ANIAME promotes a higher national production of oilseeds and oil palm. Among others ANIAME's activities include to represent the oils & fats sector in\ntrade negotiations; the elaboration of government and industry standards; the analysis of Mexican and global markets of oilseeds, oils & fats, and protein meals; to be in contact with government authorities (Economy, Agriculture, Health, Environment, etc) and with kindred private associations and institutions. In 2020, ANIAME continued to promote the development of sustainability certification schemes for Mexico: the National Interpretation of RSPO Principles & Criteria and a Mexican Standard based on RSPO P&C.","After multiple face-to-face and virtual meetings of a technical working group made up of more than 50 actors in the palm oil value chain, civil society organizations, researchers, government, held over almost two years of work; and having passed the corresponding public consultation period and the necessary review and adjustments requested by the certification management of RSPO Malaysia, finally, at the meeting of the RSPO Board of Directors, held on June 25, 2020, it was ratified by unanimously the approval of the NATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA RSPO 2018 for Mexico.\n\nFrancisco Naranjo, director of RSPO for Latin America, expressed great appreciation to ANIAME, for leading the National Interpretation process for Mexico and thanked the participants for their active support. to the process.\n\nNaranjo highlighted the strength of the facilitating team and the great participation in the technical work group, mentioning that he had come across one of the best processes that he had known: from the meetings of the technical work group, the public consultation that included forums in the field in the main palm states of Mexico and the reception of hundreds of comments.\n\nIn parallel, ANIAME, with the support of the Mexican government, also concluded the process of preparing a Mexican standard, based on the RSPO Principles and Criteria 2018.The Mexican Standard began to be developed in April 2018 and, after eight sessions of the technical working group, the drafting of the Mexican Standard Project was concluded in October, which was published on November 23, 2018 in the Official Gazette of the Federation for the corresponding period of 60 calendar days for public consultation.\n\nThe public consultation ended on January 23, 2019. Finally, on February 25, 2020, the Technical Committee for National Standardization of Various Industries approved the publication of the declaration of validity as the final standard of the NMX-F-817-SCFI-2020 OIL - THAT ESTABLISHES THE REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL VALUE CHAIN. And it was on July 1 that the Ministry of Economy, through the General Directorate of Standards, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation the declaration of validity of the Mexican Standard NMX-F-817-SCFI-2020. \n\nThe Mexican Standard respects and reflects the principles of RSPO, in terms of impact on prosperity and the social aspect of people, in addition to the benefits to the planet that the cultivation and processing of oil palm must have.\n\nThe NMX takes advantage of the strength of Mexican environmental legislation to create a Mexican certification scheme, in order to make it more affordable for all members of the chain, especially the first link, which are oil palm producers and which constitute a great social base of this agro-industrial crop.\n\nThe NMX entered into force six months after the date of publication in the Official Gazette, that is, on January 1, 2021.\n\n\nWithout a doubt, great news for the oil palm production chain in our country and a huge step in the right direction on the road to sustainability.",50,"Yes","Yes","ANIAME's work is financed by a budget approved annually by our Board of Directors. All the actions undertaken by our Association are financed by fees paid by our members.","The path to palm sustainability in Mexico is still being traced: with the approval of the Mexican National Interpretation in RSPO and with the publication in the Official Gazette of the declaration of validity of the NMX of the sustainable palm oil value chain, a first objective has been met. \n\nIn the future, the pending task is to make these sustainability platforms known in such a way that they obtain the acceptance and recognition of the final consumer companies of palm oil in Mexico.\n\nTo do this, ANIAME is organizing a virtual event to disseminate and socialize this strategy for the sustainability of oil palm in Mexico. \n\nThe main objective of the forum \"Towards the social and sustainable development of the oil palm production chain\" is to ensure that, for the final consumer of Mexican palm oil, it is indifferent that the certification is carried out through RSPO or via the NMX and, of course, to raise awareness of \"shared responsibility\" among the links in the Mexican oil palm production chain.\n\nThe event is aimed at those companies that use palm oil or palm oil-based products as a raw material or as an ingredient to make a final product; palm oil producers and mills; palm oil processors, government authorities, particularly the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Economy, and, of course, social and environmental NGOs.\n\nIn the case of the NMX, in addition to the socialization event, ANIAME has maintained contact with the Mexican Accreditation Entity (ema), in order to make the NMX better known to the production chain and to create the necessary infrastructure of units of verification, laboratories and certification bodies that put this valuable tool into operation.\n\nThe meeting with ema was held in August 2020 and 15 laboratories of certification bodies participated and have expressed interest in being accredited as certifying bodies for the sustainability of oil palm and palm oil production. in Mexico, under the criteria established by NMX-817.\n\nAnd, derived from the boost that the Mexican government intends to give to the certification scheme of the Mexican standard, the Working Group for the Sustainability of Oil Palm was set up. \n\nThe environmental authority in Mexico has developed a software in which the properties of the oil palm plantations in Mexico are geo-referenced. Through the information contained in this database, the past and present of each property can be identified to determine its correct location in permitted areas, in accordance with sustainability criteria.\n\nA great tool, since this platform officially and quickly endorses the information and that would facilitate one of the most important procedures of the RSPO certification. .\n\nThis working group reflects the interest that government authorities maintain in the issue of palm in Mexico, which should be taken advantage of today that the government is more open to discussing the cultivation of oil palm, especially for small producers.\n\nThe objective of this inter-institutional effort is for the Oil Palm Sector to ensure that the cultivation of Oil Palm is sustainable in Mexico, safeguarding biodiversity of its ecosystems and that small producers produce with quality from the sowing of the palm seed to oil extraction for industry and national and international consumer companies.\n\n\nWithout a doubt, the Mexican oil palm chain is in a privileged position due to the recent approval of the IN RSPO. Mexico can be considered a unique case in the world, because at the same time, it also has an NMX for palm. ANIAME will continue with the necessary work for the instrumentation and recognition of both sustainability platforms for the Mexican oil palm chain.\n\n\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Supply issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts",null,"We can share with you the official web site of the National Interpretation process in Mexico:\nwww.inrspomexico.org"]
[null,"Global Gateway Certifications Sdn Bhd","8-0196-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification services","Certification auditing activities such RSPO and MSPO. We are trying to passes the message among our client to promote sustainable palm oil management during our communication and activities.",80,"Yes","No","Certification services fee payment by clients.","Awareness Programme and collaborations with private sectors. We will improve from time to time our certification activity approach to ensure of 100% commitment from the auditee/player on sustainable palm oil production.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Human rights issues,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations",null,"Nil"]
[null,"Bureau Veritas Certification Hong Kong Ltd.","8-0194-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Hong Kong S.A.R.","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We are certification body who issue RSPO certificates to clients","No promotion activity in the reporting period",5,"No","No","NA","Implemented some RSPO seminars to our client","Awareness of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO",null,"NA"]
[null,"JUNTA NACIONAL DE PALMA ACEITERA DEL PERU","8-0192-17-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Peru","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Represent the Peruvian palm growers related to the planting, industrialization and commercialization of oil palm and its derivatives.\n   Defend the interests of the union members, counting on the presence of organizations that provide technical assistance in the agronomic management and industrialization of oil palm, with environmental responsibility; in order to safeguard the interests of those involved in the production chain.\n   Solution of productive, technical, economic, social and environmental problems that interest oil palm producers and legal entities linked to the cultivation, extraction and derivatives of crude palm oil.\n   Contribute to research on the cultivation, production of palm oil and derivatives; and in the development of production and consumption statistics.\n","JUNPALMA has participated in different virtual forums supporting the promotion of RSPO, as well as meetings organized by RSPO LATAM.",100,"Yes","Yes","JUNPALMA finances its activities with voluntary contributions from companies and associated producer associations.","We will continue with the promotion and participation of banks with high social impact to initiate investments in the field, to improve productivity, with competitive financial products with the\n   crop status.\n   Manage the different financing programs of the Government of Peru for access to funds such as the AgroPer√∫ Fund in order to promote investments in the field with palm producers.","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Supply issues,Others","Low participation of financial entities to promote access to credit to producers to boost investments aimed at improving the competitiveness of productive activity.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement,Others","Continuous dissemination about the importance of RSPO certification and sustainable oil production with the environment.","JUNPALMA strategic plan 2019_2024 Sustainable palm (Spanish version), link:\nhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1BzDRYyFF20_GaiDZvjHNkP-3FY71G8G6/view?usp=sharings  \n"]
[null,"PT. EKOLOGIKA CONSULTANTS","8-0191-17-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The company dedicated to provide assessment, study, research and survey in biodiversity, environment, socio-economic, and culture for natural resource sectors (forestry, farming, plantation, renewable energy, and mining), as well as sustainable development. Conducting EIA, SIA, HCS, HCV (or HCS-HCV), developing trainings and facilitation for plantation management units in an integrated sustainable (conservation) management plan","Trial of RSPO software with Oil Palm Farmers",50,"Yes","No","Most of the survey / assessment work financed by the requesting company (survey / assessment)","‚Ä¢ Development of training manuals and independent small holders modules related to RSPO certification for independent smallholders in groups\n‚Ä¢ Provide direct services or technical support for integrated HCV, HCV and HCS-HCV assessments for independent oil palm farmer plantations. \n‚Ä¢ Provide direct services or technical support for integrated HCV, HCV and HCS-HCV assessments for independent oil palm farmer plantations.","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Human rights issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Stakeholder engagement",null,"none"]
[null,"FEDERACI√ìN MEXICANA DE PALMICULTORES Y EXTRACTORES DE PALMA DE ACEITE, A.C.","8-0190-17-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Mexico","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","FEMEXPALMA is committed to promoting the sustainable Agroindustrial of Palm Oil from the axes: Economic Sustainability (Agricultural and Industrial BPAs), Environmental and Social Sustainability.\n\nMain objective\nEnsure the sustainable supply of palm oil in Mexico, under the RSPO certification scheme.","Didactic Materials (farming notebook, videos, RSPO Practical Guides), Capacity Strengthening, Technical Support, etc",100,"Yes","Yes","Strategic alliances with palm oil buyers, affiliation fees of companies and support projects in the country.","'- Promote and disseminate good practices in the Mexican palm oil sector that allow all the members of the oil supply chain to become certified.\n- Develop activities to enhance the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of palm oil production.\n- Incorporate more smallholder producers into sustainable oil palm supply chains.\n- Generate effective links with Federal and local governments to create new programs aimed at smallholders in Mexico.\n- Develop and apply Technical and support capabilities for Mexican palm oil smallholders and mills.\n- Generate Joint Communications for the Mexican palm oil sector.\n- Promote RSPO through the Research and Innovation Center for Palm Oil Sustainability (CIISPALMA).\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Scientific Certification Systems, Inc., DBA SCS Global Services","8-0189-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United States","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Third-party certification body for both RSPO Schemes (RSPO Principles & Criteria and RSPO Supply Chain Schemes) ","As a certification body, SCS Global Services promotes and educates the palm oil industry by being actively involved in auditing companies seeking certification. In addition, as a member of NASPON promoting palm oil uptake in the North American Market. ",3,"Yes","Yes","Palm oil work is funded by fees associated with certification activities. ","SCS Global Services promotes the use of certified sustainable palm oil to the various sectors within which we work. This includes the food and beverage sector, natural products, health and beauty, and renewable fuels. We promote RSPO at industry events and on our website. ","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Supply issues,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Promotion of physical CSPO"]
["Late","BioAp Biolog√≠a Aplicada S.A.S","8-0188-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Colombia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Our company does HCV assessments, Social Impact Assessment, Environmental impact Assessment, Land Use Change Assessment, Concept Note and Compensation and Remediation Procedures. As well as, High Carbon Stock assessments and Greenhouse gases evaluation.","Counseling companies in RSPO LATAM, for implementing the RSPO procedures in their supply chain and plantations",100,"No","No","Because every palm oil company pays the studies with self funds.","We are currently working on workshops for building capacities on the sustainability department staff of the palm oil companies.\nT\nhe aim is that they serve as practical guidelines for the implementation of management and monitoring strategies for HCV","Certification of smallholders,Competition with non-RSPO members,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Research & Development support"]
[null,"GFA Certification GmbH","8-0187-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We are a certification body of natural resources and connected supply chains from Hamburg, Germany. We offer certificationservices worldwide in the fields of FSC¬Æ, PEFC, RSPO and Gold Standard. For more information please visit us at www.gfa-cert.com.","GFA has promoted RSPO through the internet page and other promotional activities and conducted audits for RSPO SCC. GFA is an active member in the German Forum for Sustainable Palmoil (FONAP) which promotes the use of sustainable Palmoil.",5,"No","Yes","Income from supply chain certification services.","1. Encourage companies to come into RSPO certification 2. Conducting RSPO SCC audits 3. Participation in European CBMeetings 4. Being active member of the German FONAP initiative (WG Certification Systems)","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Stakeholder engagement,Others","Engagement in FONAP","https://www.gfa-cert.com/en/types-of-certification/rspo-certification/"]
["Late","Control Union Certifications B.V.","8-0184-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification body accredited for RSPO SCC certification","Takeing part in actions panels and activities promoting RSPO.",8,"No","Yes","We are providing complaine verifications and certification for RSPO SCC.","Takeing part in the events fairs and panels which are dedicated to promote RSPO. We also continue offering RSPO SCC certification services","Awareness of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations"]
[null,"David Ogg and Partners Ltd","8-0182-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry"," Training."," Training.",60,"Yes","No","By myself","Continue with training and promotion of the RSPO.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Traceability issues,Others","The RSPO SCC standard is a major problem.\n\nMass Balance supply chain model is nothing more and nothing less than Book and Claim as defined by ISO. It MUST be phased out by the end of 2021, if not before!\n\nThe book and claim supply chain model is NOT book and claim. It is detrimental to the uptake of certified products and must be abolished TODAY!\n","Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations"]
[null,"PT. SGS Indonesia","8-0180-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification Assessment","carrying out RSPO P&C and RSPO SCC Certification Assessment with worldwide scope",100,"Yes","Yes","Not Applicable","we will keep focus and involve in RSPO certification assessment for both P&C and SCC worldwide, by certifying more and more Estates, CPO Mills and all supply chain actors up to end product manufacturers.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://www.sgs.com/en/our-company/corporate-sustainability/sustainability-reports "]
[null,"GREE ENERGY Limited","8-0179-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Hong Kong S.A.R.","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","GREE designs and provides biogas solutions that transform food processing waste into clean energy and new resources. We develop projects. We build projects. We finance projects. We operate projects.","-",80,"No","Yes","GREE funds its operation through a combination of grants - awarded to us through our work in creating a more sustainable production of palm oil through fighting climate change as well as private equity and debt.","GREE designs and provides biogas-to-energy solutions that not only treat industrial wastewater and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also turn these environmental liabilities into clean energy, organic fertilisers and other commodities for rural communities. Our value creation model powers local economies and generates substantial returns for our investors, which enables us to scale our impact even further.","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement",null,"-"]
[null,"TUV NORD INTEGRA","8-0178-16-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Belgium","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","audit and certification: \n   - in sustainable standards \n   - food, feed and agriculture \n   - Organic certification \n","Certification and information on our website ",5,"Yes","No","   through client contribution for certification services ","   acces to information through our website ","Difficulties in the certification process,Others","mails with support","Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://www.tuv-nord.com/be/en/certification/sustainability-and-social-standards/"]
[null,"TRANSITIONS Bruno Rebelle et associ√©(e)s","8-0174-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","France","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We are a sustainability consulting agency based in Paris. We provide strategic, engineering and communication solutions to support change towards sustainability in the public, private and non-governmental sectors.This includes supporting the implementation of our clients' sustainable sourcing policies for various commodities including palm oil and other agricultural commodities. ","We support the implementation of our clients‚Äô sustainability policies, notably through purchase practice strategies aiming to increase the share of sustainable palm oil. \n\nIn 2019, Transitions and its partner BSR launched the Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) initiative. The ASD initiative brings together companies from the cosmetics, home and personal care, healthcare, and oleochemicals industries in the building of a responsible palm derivatives supply chain. ASD participants aim to scale up efforts towards compliance with No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) principles and to positively transform the palm oil industry. \n\nBy harmonizing requirements, standardizing tools and methodologies, and mutualizing efforts, ASD intends to increase the transparency of the global derivatives supply chain, collectively monitor risks and activities along the supply chain, and implement collective action projects to address social and environmental issues on the ground. \n\nhttps://www.bsr.org/en/collaboration/groups/action-forsustainable-derivatives\n",28,"No","Yes","The organization is self-funded thanks to our different missions supporting our clients, including members of the ASD initiative (Action for Sustainable Derivatives).","We will continue to support our clients in the implementation of their sustainability policy notably through an increased use of sustainable palm oil. \n\nThrough the ASD initiative, we support the members in their supply chain monitoring and business transformation toward the production and consumption of more sustainable palm oil, including CSPO. Thus, the ASD targets to identify opportunities for increased uptake and availability of MB/SG certified derivatives in order to support its members and promote sustainable palm oil.\n\nIn the coming year, the organization would also like to support the discussion about strengthening social and environmental safeguards for the non-certified share of palm oil considered in the MB certification.","Certification of smallholders,Supply issues,Traceability issues,Others","Transitions is not engaged in the production, procurement, use and/or promotion of CSPO as we are a sustainability consulting agency. We provide advice to our clients to support smallholders certification and access to market in key priority sourcing areas. Traceability issues are a key challenge for our organization, the derivatives supply chain remaining complex, diffuse and sometimes opaque. The harmonization of requests for supply chain transparency and recent RSPO resolution for mills list submission is helping push the sector towards greater progress, but much remains to be done to increase transparency for traded volumes, TTP, etc. Finally, supply issues remain a crucial issue for our clients, as palm-oil derivatives' volumes are too small in the global palm market to be made available through SG/IP system. This year and the next, we will progress with our clients on availability studies for certified derivatives. ","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of physical CSPO,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement,Others","As a sustainability consultation agency we support the increase of transparency and sustainability in palm oil sourcing supply chains, the implementation of sustainability sourcing policies and support to sustainable palm production initiatives for our clients. We also develop and cooperate on methodologies, tools and solutions for the industry, promoted through working groups, webinars and conferences, in order to increase transparency in the supply chain and the proportion of sustainable palm oil volumes.","https://www.bsr.org/en/collaboration/groups/action-for-sustainable-derivatives , \nhttps://www.bsr.org/reports/ASD_Annual_Update_on_Progress_2020.pdf"]
[null,"BGLZ Beratungsgesellschaft f√ºr Lieferketten und Zertifizierungen UG (haftungsbeschr√§nkt)","8-0168-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Consulting supply chain actors in regard to supply chain certification according schemes such as RSPO or UTZ","Several public and in-house trainings in regard to RSPO SCC standard and RSPO certification were conducted. Several companies were supported to implement RSPO SCCS requirements and to become RSPO certified.",50,"No","Yes","We invoice our consultancy work in regard to RSPO to our clients.","We plan to increase number of RSPO trainings and to support more clients to become RSPO certified.","Others","Purchase of some raw materials, e.g. aromatics, as RSPO certified is still difficult for our clients and constrains production of more certified goods. Negative promotion of palm oil by some NGOs encourages supply chain actors to substitute palm oil by raw materials.","Stakeholder engagement",null,"http://www.rspo-zertifizierung.de/"]
[null,"SERVICE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATES, INC.","8-0167-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United States","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The SSA Group is a family owned and operated guest services company providing retail, culinary and admissions operations for over 60 million visitors annually in zoos, aquariums and museums across the United States. The diverse team at SSA works to assure our guests the highest level of experience while visiting our partner institutions. The SSA Group manages operations at over 65 partner locations. \n\nWe are currently listed as an Affiliate Member but are working with Cameron Plese on re-classification for the 2021 ACOP.  ","The team at the SSA Group has continued to engage its top vendor US Foods to become a full RSPO member and have been pleased with the progress over the past three years since US Foods published its 2018 palm oil goals with RSPO a fixture of these efforts.    Monitoring the progress for US Foods will be a continued focus into 2021 and beyond as we fortify our sustainability role and partnership with their organization. \n\nInternally, the SSA Group has a Conservation Team at every account throughout the USA and partners with host institutions to share news, information, activities as well as develop increased awareness with our over 6,000 employees nationwide. We have promoted the RSPO and the collaboration at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to all of our teams and staff with the core goal of raising both the level of awareness on-site and for our employees own personal actions when they make purchase decisions at home.   We have also promoted via social media platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.  \n\nIn addition, Andrew Fischer, Vice President of Sustainability & Conservation for the SSA Group has engaged with US Foods to continue to drive home the importance of RSPO support and compliance. Andrew also is a representative on the AZA (Association of Zoo and Aquarium) Green Science and Advisory Group who focuses on sustainability at the 240 AZA facilities.. He is also a member of the Conservation Education Committee with AZA and has been a part of the discussion of RSPO education within Zoo and Aquarium facilities nationwide. ",5,"No","No","SSA Group ownership continues to have a solid commitment with sustainability and conservation organizations who work with our partner institutions to make a difference. SSA supports the RSPO efforts in this area by having Andrew Fischer, Vice President of Sustainability & Conservation involved with these organizations. ","The SSA Group will continue via our culinary leadership supported by Andrew Fischer, Vice President of Sustainability and Conservation to communicate with our vendors including our primary supplier US Foods to become full RSPO members.   We have offered our support in bringing together both Cameron Plese from the RSPO and Anthony Kingsley from US Foods, and we have been supporting these efforts for the past three years.   \n\nWe will also continue to spread the word within our cultural attractions community on the importance of being a supporter of the RSPO.   Andrew will continue to work also work with the national SSA Group culinary procurement team and our partner institutions on developing increased awareness for our guests in the cafe's and restaurants nationally as well as our employees.\n\nWe are currently listed as an Affiliate Member but are working with Cameron Plese on re-classification for the 2021 ACOP.  ","No challenges faced",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Others","The SSA Group has a Conservation Team at every account throughout the USA and partners with host institutions to share news, information, activities as well as develop increased awareness with our over 5,000 employees nationwide. We have promoted the RSPO and the collaboration at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to all of our teams and staff with the core goal of raising both the level of awareness on-site and for our employees own personal actions when they make purchase decisions at home.  \n\nIn addition, Andrew Fischer, Vice President of Sustainability & Conservation for the SSA Group has engaged with US Foods to continue to drive home the importance of RSPO support and compliance. Andrew also is a representative on the AZA (Association of Zoo and Aquarium) Green Science and Advisory Group who focus on sustainability of environments here and around the world. He is also a member of the Conservation Education Committee with AZA and has been a part of the discussion of RSPO education within Zoo and Aquarium facilities nationwide. ","Not at this time though as we transition our membership status from Affiliate to the appropriate category we will have some additional information. "]
[null,"Federation of Dutch Grocery and Food Industry (FNLI)","8-0166-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The umbrella industry federation for processing and importing companies and sector associations in the Dutch Food and Drink industry.","1. Palm oil has been identified as one of the risk commodities for responsible business. We have worked closely with the sector organisation for Fats and Oils (MVO) and report into the IMVO agreement for Resposible Business Conduct. 2. FNLI is a member of DASPO (Dutch Alliance Sustainable Palm Oil).",5,"No","Yes","We are an umbrella industry federation funded by its member companies and sector associations.","1. We will remain an active member of DASPO. 2. We will organise a palm-oil sector assessment for our annual reporting into our national IMVO-agreement (Responsible Business Conduct). 3. We will continue to support the use of sustainable palm oil and RSPO certified palm oil in particular.","High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Stakeholder engagement",null,"We do not yet have publicly available documents"]
[null,"BSI Group Assurance Limited","8-0159-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","BSI is a standard creating, training and certification organization. BSI is the first Standard National Body.\n\nBSI main business is to create Standards that industries and communities need. BSI is then to share, embed and assessed these standards applied in the industries for standardization.\n\nBSI is an RSPO Accredited Certification Body provide RSPO P&C and RSPO SCCS certification services worldwide. ","BSI promotes the RSPO certification through the BSI's marketing channel including product fact sheets, free webinars and website promotions.",5,"Yes","No","Since BSI is providing certification services, the fund is through collection of certification service / auditing fees.","Continue to promote RSPO certification through BSI marketing channel.","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,Human rights issues,Others","Continue to engage with RSPO Secretariat where ever there are unclear interpretation of the RSPO requirements. ","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations",null,"no"]
[null,"Istituto Per La Certificazione Etica Ed Ambientale (ICEA)","8-0156-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Italy","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Control and certification of organic activities","We offer RSPO Supply chain Control and certification to clients",1,"Yes","Yes","As speaker in webinar of UIOPS","We offer RSPO Supply chain Control and certification to clients","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Competition with non-RSPO members,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://icea.bio/certificazioni/food/standard-volontari/rspo-sustainable-palm-oil/ "]
[null,"Association Interprofessionnelle de la fili√®re Palmier √† huile (AIPH)","8-0155-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","C√¥te d'Ivoire","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Sans √™tre exhaustif, les missions de l‚ÄôAIPH sont les suivantes : - Cr√©er et entretenir le cadre de concertation entre les acteurs de la fili√®re palmier √† huile ; - Contribuer √† l‚Äôinstauration et au renforcement de r√®gles de discipline minimum entre les acteurs de la\nfili√®re ; - Assurer la promotion, le d√©veloppement et le rayonnement du secteur palmier √† l‚Äôhuile ; - R√©soudre √† l‚Äôamiable les conflits entre ses membres avant tout recourent juridictionnel ou autre ; - D√©terminer et g√©rer le m√©canisme de fixation des prix d‚Äôachat du kilogramme de r√©gime de palme et de l‚Äôhuile de palme brute.","'- La sensibilisation des membres sur les bonnes pratiques agricoles, environnementales, sociales et √©conomiques, le partage d'exp√©riences sur les meilleures pratiques de production durable d'ailleurs par la participation aux activit√©s de TFA2020 et RT17,\nRT16, RT15 ; - L'interpr√©tation nationale de la RSPO, l'√©laboration du politique de durabilit√© prenant en compte les dispositions de la RSPO, la formation des groupes des petits producteurs avec l'aide des supports de l'acad√©mie RSPO pour la formation des petits producteurs \n",100,"Yes","Yes","Le financement de l'AIPH est assur√© par la cotisation de ses membres.","\n- S√©ance de communication aupr√®s de tous les acteurs sur les principes et crit√®re de la version 2018 de la RSPO; \n- La formation des petits exploitants avec les moyens de l‚ÄôAcad√©mie RSPO des petits exploitants (RSPO SMALLHOLDER ACADEMY);\n- L'interpr√©tation locale de la norme RSPO pour les petits producteurs ind√©pendants;\n- Des s√©ances de formations et sensibilisation de tous les acteurs sur la s√©curisation fonci√®re rurale ","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Traceability issues,Others","Co√ªt √©lev√© des √©tudes pr√©alable √† la certification RSPO; - Experts charg√©s des √©tudes non r√©sidents","Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Siam Elite Palm Company Limited","8-0154-15-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Thailand","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We produce the elite oil palm planting materials and commercially distribute to a nursery and  grower. The same time, we educate and train a nursery and farmer for good agricultural practice and environment conservation. ","We involve in training and exhibits the related knowledge and practice to the member.",90,"Yes","Yes","We don't focus on funding.","We keep on training and educating a nursery and grower and attracting them for RSPO awareness and consumption of CSPO. Further, our planting materials are the best among the oil production per unit area, increasing the profit margin while using less space. The materials are also the environment tolerance for climate and partially disease-resistant performance. Hence, all that is serving the sustainable arena. \n","High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Others","The members focus on the benefits of return earning through the sole RSPO, however, there is no tangible value on the overall returns on the sustainability view.There is a gap to attract growers. ","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement",null,"The reports are as routine but not in general publication."]
["Late","Fundacion Proyeccion Eco-Social","8-0152-14-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Colombia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Our organization promotes responsible production and consumption taking into account 4 fundamental pillars Communication, Monitoring, Traceability and Transparency, some of the activities we develop:\n   \n   Analysis of Determinants of Environmental and Social Risks\n   \n   Deforestation Monitoring\n   \n   Comprehensive Information Management\n   \n   Traceability processes\n","Through the Sustainable Society platform, we have covered different events such as the RSPO congress in Mexico, Launch of the jurisdictional certification in Ecuador, as well as the articulation in processes of the zero deforestation agreements in Colombia and spaces such as the TFA Colombia",40,"No","Yes","Our organization has different forms of financing such as international cooperation process consulting and services.","EcoSocial will continue to promote sustainable supply chain processes through the Sustainable Society communications platform, and we will also continue to promote zero deforestation supply chains with traceability and through transparency processes.\n","Difficulties in the certification process,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support",null,"n.a"]
[null,"PalmElit SAS","8-0147-13-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","France","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Oil palm seeds breeding and marketing","Our Code of Conduct, General Conditions of Sales, Catalogue and Manual encourage customers to join RSPO. We promote sustainable palm oil and RSPO in every meeting.",100,"No","No","Sales of oil palm seeds.","We will encourage all our customers to join RSPO through our Code of Conduct, our General Conditions of sales, our website, our Catalogue, our user manual.","Certification of smallholders,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Research & Development support",null,"https://www.palmelit.com/en/ethique/responsabilite-sociale-des-entreprises"]
[null,"PT. Re Mark Asia","8-0145-13-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Re.Mark Asia is a company that provides consultancy services in sustainable natural resource management. Sustainability aspects in natural resource management, especially in Indonesia and Asia, is currently the main challenge in global development. Re.Mark Asia focuses on business activities in relation to technical assistance, certification, verification and inspection. Services cover sectors such as forestry, agriculture, mining and other new developing sectors. Re.Mark Asia services are consists of Consultancy, to five product lines. The detail product line are described below :\nProduct  Line 1. Consultancy services Environmental/social due diligent : An audit or investigation with certain standards related to environmental or social aspects of the company to be taken over before.\nProduct  Line 2 : Natural and Social Asset Management for Sustainability\n-\tHCV identification Assessment is an activity to identify areas that have a high conservation values in be areas of high conservation values is maintained or enhanced in value to the sustainability.\n-\tSocial Impact Assessment and Social management and monitoring plan : Social impact activity, operation or a project undertaken by an organization or business unit to the to reduce or mitigate the social impact of the project and operating or managing social units or organizations and surrounding communities.\n-\tLand Use and Land Cover of human needs and to serve numerous, diverse purposes. When the users of land use change occurs producing both desirable and undesirable impacts. The analysis relationship between people and land.\nProduct Line 3: Human and Knowledge Asset Management for Sustainability; Facilitation services and facilitation skill training; Negotiation services training, Spatial data management/GIS services and training; Research and Knowledge In-house training is a training services specifically delivered for the internal organization required for introduction/ awareness or improvement of human resource capacity sustainability issues.\nProduct Line 4: Sustainability's engagement; CSR, Social and Environmental Management 3. Sustainability documentary 4. Sustainability training.\nProduct Line 5 : Sustainability Audit : 1. Certification Support Program - GAP Analysis: The gap analysis Environmental & Social compliance requirements (‚Äúgaps‚Äù) 2. Internal auditing services IFCC) - Forest Certification (FSC, LEI, PHPL,SVLK) As a provider of auditing services managed by Remark Asia and are experienced, and competent as well as the auditors SFM and SVLK mandatory. - Palm Oil Certification (RSPO, ISPO, SCCS).\n","1. Technical assistance to comply with the RSPO standard certification (Certification Support Initiatives) \n2. Providing services for HCV identification, Social Impact Assessment, High Carbon Stock Assessment, Free Prior Inform Consent \n3. Auditing services \n4. Sustainability Trainings (Inhouse and public) \n5. Sustainability reporting \n6. Others\n",50,"Yes","Yes","From private contract for conducting assessment services in their unit Management","1. Technical assistance to comply with the RSPO standard certification (Certification Support Initiatives) \n2. Providing information  for HCV identification, Social Impact Assessment, High Carbon Stock Assessment, Free Prior Inform Consent \n3. Media Social Campaign \n4. Sustainability Training (In-house and public)\n 5. Sustainability Report Campaign\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Human rights issues,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Traceability issues,Others","Many plantation companies have been facing with the social issues, relationship with community surrounding plantation and mill in some case problematic. This is a big concern. Social issues become constraint to get RSPO certificate. Companies are still lacking to invest more on the social management aspect to resolve social issues. For this issues we have cooperate with companies to develop social management that build better community-company relationship. Second, awareness and willingness to improve the Human Resources Capacity is also one of important element to sustainability. We organize training to help company improve its human resources skill and knowledge in sustainability.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://re-markasia.com/"]
[null,"NATURALEZA, ENERG√çA, SOCIEDAD S.A.S - NES NATURALEZA S.A.S","8-0136-12-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Colombia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Consultancy and support RSPO implementation standard, smallholders trainings, engagement of the supply chain in certification","Consultancy and trainings on sustainability",70,"Yes","Yes","Promoting the value of sustainable palm oil and creating awareness on sustainability","Promoting Sustainable Palm Oil in Per√∫ ","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support",null,"www.nesnaturaleza.com"]
[null,"Vereniging voor de Bakkerij- en Zoetwarenindustrie (VBZ)","8-0132-12-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","VBZ is the Association of the Bakery- and Confectionery Industry in the Netherlands representing members who produce fine bakery ware, confectionery, chocolate and savoury snacks. Our main priority is to represent the interests of our members and encourage our members to take the next step towards a sustainable future.\n","As VBZ we are part of the DASPO (Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil) and support the DASPO in their social media and lobby activities. Moreover, we promote sustainable palm oil via VBZ member events, the VBZ newsletter and through our website.\n",2,"No","Yes","As a member association the contribution fee of our members is used to make all our activities possible, that includes the work on palm oil. ","Active participation in the Dutch Alliance Sustainable Palm Oil (DASPO). Maintaining and reinforcing close cooperation with suppliers, retailers and customer organisations. Keeping close contact with our members and promote them to achieve 100% sustainable palm oil and helping them to solve problems that can obstruct this goal. Work on a communication plan with the DASPO to promote sustainable palm oil.\n","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement",null,"-"]
[null,"PT. Gagas Dinamiga Aksenta","8-0131-12-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Aksenta is a socio-environmental consultancy company with the main objective is to assist companies, communities, NGOs and governments to have a good understanding of sustainability, sufficient knowledge, skills and attitude to improve its, social relations and environmental management, and to become environmentally and socially sustainable.\n\nRelated to RSPO, Aksenta provides its services of independent assessments, technical assistance, trainings, coaching and consultancy in the areas of HCV, HCS, social management, remote sensing, spatial analysis, GHG studies, conservation programs for compensation liability, wildlife management, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, soil studies, environmental and social due diligence, and sustainability standards.\n","Our main activities undertaken to promote sustainable palm oil, the RSPO and/or members in 2019 included:\n\n1)\tHCVs. Several HCV assessments have been carried out in 2019 \na)\tHCV Assessments for RSPO grower members: New Planting Procedures, existing oil palm plantation, review and update; \nb)\tHCV Assessments for non-member: palm oil companies interested in joining RSPO, palm oil companies willing to comply with NDPE, \nc)\tHCV Management and Monitoring Plans: developing, training-facilitating; \n\n2)\tSocial Management. Several social management projects have been carried out in 2019 \nThese projects consist of Social Impact Assessments (SIA), Social Liability Identification, Social Due Diligence, Participatory Mapping, Social Management and Monitoring Plan, FPIC Verification, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement.\n\n3)\tRemediation and Compensation. Several projects regarding Remediation and Compensation have been carried out. \nThese projects consist of conducting Land Use Change Analyses (LUCA), reviewing LUCA reports, developing Compensation Concept Notes, developing Compensation Plans, seeking the best areas for compensation programs, facilitating conservation collaborations between the RSPO grower members and NGO partners for the planning and implementation of Compensation/ Conservation Programs.\n",90,"No","Yes","Our clients, the palm oil companies and other organizations, pay us to our services","We will continue what we have been doing and expand to serve new clients, regions and countries. We are planning to set up new products of services in the areas of: \n1)\tExpand the services to Conservation Programs for Compensation liability (planning, facilitating, implementing). \n2)\tFocusing the consultation services on integrating all sustainability requirements into Sustainable Management Systems. \n","Difficulties in the certification process,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification",null,"Stakeholder engagement",null,"Please see www.aksenta.com"]
[null,"Intertek Certification GmbH","8-0130-11-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We are working as a certification body for RSPO SCC certification in Europe and Asia.","certification activity",10,"No","No","We are working as certification body for RSPO SCC certification in Europe and Asia.","We are focusing on advertising the RSPO SCC certification.","Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"No actions taken",null,"http://www.intertek.com/food/traceability/roundtable-sustainable-palm-oil-rspo/"]
[null,"Girl Scouts of the USA","8-0129-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United States","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","GSUSA is a youth leadership program","Oversight  of  the  benchmarks  set  by  our  licensed  manufacturers who are also RSPO members. \n\nEducate our membership and consumers about the use of palm oil in Girl Scout products. ",5,"No","No","general operating budget","Continued  support  of  our  licensed  manufacturers  in  their  efforts to move towards use of more sustainable palm oil in Girl Scout products. Continued  proactive  and  reactive education  of  our  membership  through our website, webinars and other channels.","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Others","Continue to educate membership and consumers on the use of palm oil in Girl Scout products and closely manage our licensed bakers and their efforts to use sustainable palm oil. ","Others","Engagement with Girl Scout members and licensed manufacturers about the use of palm oil in Girl Scout products","https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/FAQs.html"]
[null,"AgroVet GmbH","8-0124-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Austria","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification Body accredited for SCC with main activity in Europe.","We do not promote, we are an independent certification body.",1,"No","No","We charge our clients for the costs of audits and certification, including the reporting to RSPO.","We do not promote, we are an independent certification body.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"No actions taken",null,"https://www.agrovet.at/rspo-en/?lang=en"]
[null,"Intertek Certification International Sdn. Bhd.","8-0121-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Accredited Certification Body (CB) which conducts RSPO P&C and RSPO SCC Certification\nAssessments","Conducting of RSPO Certification assessments to ensure compliance by Certificate Holders against the RSPO Standards and requirements",50,"Yes","Yes","Certification assessment fees.","To ensure that OP Growers & Certificate Holders do comply with the requirements of RSPO and continue to maintain credible implementations of the RSPO requirements each year","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Competition with non-RSPO members,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Others","Ongoing 'Anti-Palm Oil' campaigns from external parties with their own agenda","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement,Others","Within the confines of permitted engagement as a CB.","-"]
[null,"IMACE","8-0118-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Belgium","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Imace is the European Margarine Association defending the interests of the European margarine and spreads industry and informing the Membership on all related policy and regulatory developments that have an impact on our sector","Imace defends the interest of the members and all Imace company members are direct member of RSPO.\n\nImace defends the work of RSPO as a key pilar in the step towards 100% SPO",10,"Yes","Yes","Imace is funded by Membership fees","Imace will continue its activities related to SPO and will actively contribute in the EU policy discussions on halting imported deforestation of which the PO dossier is part.\nWe work also with ESPOAG partners to strengthen our voice.\n\nWe also work with EPOA and several national SPO Alliance on our joint objectives regarding promoting the uptake of SPO.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Flokstra Survey Bureau B.V.","8-0115-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Independent surveyor for Quality & Quantity of Palm Oil & Palm Products"," - ",85,"No","No","Service fees","We will continue to provide our independent services in verification, documentation and inspection of sustainable Palm Oil to our local and overseas clients.","Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"No actions taken",null," - "]
[null,"PT DAEMETER CONSULTING","8-0113-11-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Provide consulting services to stakeholders especially private sectors to implement sustainability principles, carry out applied research to support our consulting services and project management.","HCV, HCS and Land Use Change Assessments, market research (consumer perspectives on RSPO), responsible sourcing advisory, supply chain and traceability systems, analysis of cost of social conflict in oil palm sector, smallholders engagement and extension services, strategic communication, supplier engagement, regional government development, site suitability and land-development advisory, multistakeholder engagement, FPIC, livelihood and social impact assessments, environmental/social due diligence (IFC PS) and conflict resolution",50,"Yes","Yes","Through consulting services and grants","Continuing what we have been doing, expanding to new places and countries","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Certification of smallholders,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Research & Development support,Stakeholder engagement",null,"Our website www.daemeter.org provides our publication on sustainable palm oil-related research and studies"]
["Late","Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association","8-0111-10-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","engagement with govt agencies, stakeholder engagement ","Press releases, seminars, workshops",100,"Yes","Yes","Members contributions","Press releases, seminars, workshops","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Murray FEDDERSEN","8-0108-10-000-00","Individuals","Affiliate","Australia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","1. Provision of consultancy support to producers of sustainable palm oilseeking or maintaining certification to the RSPO Principles and Criteria 2. Providing support to the PNG&SI National Interpretation Task Force to ensure that the National Interpretations are up-to-date and compliant with RSPO requirements","Monitored changes to RSPO Standards and communicated them to interested parties",20,"Yes","Yes","Funded by fees paid by clients for services provided","Continuation of existing activities. Specific projects are expected the by assisting compliance with the RSPO Smallholder standard to industry participants in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Others","Perception by some members of the general public that Oil Palm is the primary cause of deforestation in the world leading to climate change and the associated harm to rare, threatened and endangered species","Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations",null,"Not applicable"]
[null,"Helikonia Advisory Sdn Bhd","8-0107-10-000-00","Associations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Helikonia is a Malaysia and UK based advisory provider, specialising in policy development, ESG disclosure and stakeholder engagement. We also provide support services for multistakeholder initiatives.","Over the past year, Helikonia has supported the High Carbon Stock Approach Steering Group as well as the Palm Oil Innovation Group.\nWe have also assisted a range of leading palm oil producers and processors in developing sustainability reporting and engagement with stakeholders.",70,"No","Yes","Through direct advisory fees","We will continue our work supporting initiatives and companies that support the production of, improvement of, and uptake of sustainable and responsible palm oil.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"Malaysian Biodiesel Association (MBA)","8-0103-10-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The Malaysian Biodiesel Association (MBA) was established on September 2, 2008 to represent the interest of the biodiesel industry in Malaysia. Over the years, the Association has actively engaged and worked with the Malaysian Government and its agencies, i.e., the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (MPIC), Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) to facilitate the implementation of the mandatory biodiesel blending programme and also issues concerning market access, regulatory requirements, sustainability criteria, etc. in export markets.  ","MBA participates in Malaysia's National Steering Committee on Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) implementation (under MPIC) and also the Technical Working Group on MSPO standards to support and promote the implementation of local sustainable palm oil standards and certification. All MBA members are also certified under MSPO certification scheme. \n\nThe MBA is also a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB); an international initiative co-ordinated by the Energy Center at EPFL in Lausanne that brings together various stakeholders ‚Äì farmers, companies, non-governmental organizations, experts, governments and intergovernmental agencies concerned with ensuring the sustainability of biofuels production and processing. Periodically, MBA members receive updates on the activities and initiatives undertaken by RSB.\n\nMost MBA members are RSPO members and certified by RSPO. They undertake their RSPO obligations directly through their respective companies.",50,"No","Yes","Association activities are funded through annual membership subscription","Apart from RSPO SCCS certification, MBA members are also certified to the MSPO Supply Chain Certification Standard mandated by the Malaysian Government as well as (majority of them) certified by the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC).\n\nThe MBA will also continue to participate in the development / updating of sustainable palm oil standards under the MSPO certification scheme","No challenges faced",null,"No actions taken",null,"None"]
[null,"Grofor - Deutscher Verband des Gro√ühandels mit √ñlen, Fetten und √ñlrohstoffen e.V.","8-0100-10-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The association Grofor represents the interests of the trade in oils, fats and products derived thereof. ","Regular information to Grofor members",20,"No","No","Grofor is funded through membership fees.\n","Regular information to Grofor members regarding the development of RSPO","Others","Not applicable for an association.","No actions taken",null,"nothing available"]
[null,"Warringtonfire Testing and Certification Limited, trading as BM TRADA","8-0100-09-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Auditing to third part standards, including RSPO SCCS","We promote RSPO certification through all our affiliate offices",20,"Yes","Yes","Our funding comes directly from our certificate holders","Promotion of certification through social media, websites and marketing campaigns","Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Low usage of palm oil,Others","We have seen organisations moving away from palm to avoid the issues and the need for certification","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies",null,"N/A"]
[null,"ASEAN Oleochemical Manufacturers Group (AOMG)","8-0095-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The objective of AOMG is to represent the oleochemical industry wherever necessary.  It also seeks to promote the formation of reliable and responsible production of oleochemical without prejudicing normal competition between companies and countries.","More than half of AOMG members are RSPO members, either directly or through their parent companies and they undertake their RSPO obligations directly through their respective companies.",100,"Yes","No","Membership subscription contributed by our members.","We will continue to encourage our members to be SCCS certified and sell more RSPO certified products.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Others","Limited availability of certified oil in the market despite strong demand and rising premiums","Others","Continue to encourage members to be SCCS certified and sell more RSPO products.","-"]
[null,"OVID Verband der √∂lsaatenverarbeitenden Industrie in Deutschland e.V.","8-0094-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Germany","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","OVID represents the oilseed crushing and oil refining companies in Germany. As an association OVID is the interface between its member companies, politics, industry, academia and institutions.","'- Discussion, exchange and communication of palm oil and RSPO related topics within OVID board and OVID committees (e.g. committee on sustainability) and with other stakeholders in the supply chain. \n- Since 2019 OVID is board member of FONAP (Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil in Germany) - a Multi-stakeholder platform with the aim to boost significantly the proportion of segregated, certified sustainable palm oil in Germany. As board member OVID heads the FONAP working group on communication and is responsible for communication acitivities. \n- Publication of press releases and position papers on sustainable supply chains, due diligence and deforestation.\n- Further distribution of \"OVID-Brief Nachhaltiges Palm√∂l\" (OVID report on sustainable palm oil). \n- Participation in conferences, seminars, training courses.\n",20,"No","Yes","Our general work as an association including palm oil is funded by membership fees.","The focus of our activities lies currently on FONAP. As a member of the Executive Board, we have set ourselves the goal of strengthening communication for sustainable palm oil in Germany (e.g. through press conferences, press releases, contact with multipliers).","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Others","Demand is lower than supply of CSPO","Others","See above (for example, as board member of FONAP activities towards politics, business, civil society in Germany to boost the proportion of CSPO).","'- OVID-Brief \"Nachhaltiges Palm√∂l\" (2017; in German: OVID Report on Sustainable Palm Oil): https://www.ovid-verband.de/fileadmin/user_upload/OVID-Brief_Palm%C3%B6l.pdf\n- OVID Position Paper on \"Supporting human rights due diligence in the supply chains of the German oil milling industry\" (2020, in German): https://www.ovid-verband.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Positionspapiere/2020-09_OVID-Position_zu_menschenrechtliche-Sorgfaltspflicht.pdf\n-Press Release \"German government expands support for sustainable palm oil\" (in German, 2020): https://www.ovid-verband.de/fileadmin/user_upload/230720_Pressemitteilung_FONAP_BMZ-Beitritt.pdf\n-Press Release \"Working together for deforestation-free supply chains\" (in German, 2020): https://www.ovid-verband.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Pressemitteilungen/2020/200421_Gemeinsam_f%C3%BCr_nachhaltige_Lieferketten_.pdf"]
[null,"Rio Tinto Minerals","8-0092-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Singapore","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Mining and seller of refined Borate fertilizer to oil palm industry","Promoting training of GAP for plantations and smallholders",10,"No","No","Not applicable","Not applicable","Others","Not applicable","Others","Not applicable","Not applicable"]
[null,"IBD Certifications","8-0090-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Brazil","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification of sustainable and socio-environmental standards.","Organization of events in Latin America in order to inform and promote RSPO.",5,"No","No","IBD provides RSPO certification services to the industry and palm oil growers.","Keep organizing events, participating in related events in the region and promoting the RSPO directly to major players of the region.","High costs in achieving or adhering to certification",null,"Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations",null,"N/A"]
[null,"The Netherlands Feed Industry Association (NEVEDI)","8-0085-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Nevedi (The Dutch Feed Industry Association) protects the interests of the Dutch feed industry. About 90 Feed companies and suppliers are associated with Nevedi. These companies represent more than 95% of the total feed production for livestock in the Netherlands. \n\nThe Nevedi members are producers of compound feed, milk replacers and premix additives as well as wet feed suppliers. The share of compound feed sold in the Netherlands by the members of Nevedi is 11,75 million metric tons. The annual turnover in the sector is ‚Ç¨5,0 billion with 5.500 employees being active. \n\nNevedi's 5-year vision 2020-2025 \"Feed for chain co-operation\" focusses on 4 themes: \"Sustainable foodchains\", \"Animal feed production for healthy and safe food\", \"Circular agriculture\" and \"Labour\"","Nevedi has supported her members in covering the palm oil footprint of 2020. For the small and medium-size companies a small collective was formed for purchasing RSPO Palm Trace credits. Nevedi is a member of the Dutch Alliance Sustainable Palm Oil and attended several meetings. Practical information has been shared on the members website about RSPO, buying credits and about sustainable palm oil.\nNevedi monitors each quarter of the year the progress of buying RSPO Palm Trace credits. Nevedi has expanded the scope of feed for which members have to use CSPO or buy RSPO Trace credits in 2019. \nNevedi engaged in discussions on CSPK in dairy feed in 2019. In 2020 these discussions were temporarily put on hold. Currently Nevedi is considering the step towards 100% CSPO (now only national animal products consumption is covered). ",5,"No","Yes","Nevedi as a whole is funded by membership fees, paid by our members. So, all our activities, including those on palm oil, are paid by the sum of all membership fees received.","Nevedi hopes to further increase the use of CSPO up to 100% of all palm oil and palm oil derivatives used in animal feed. For CSPO this would mean that not only Dutch national consumption of animal-based food (dairy, eggs, meat) is covered, but also all export of animal products. The percentage of palm oil use in the Dutch Feed Industry, covered by CSPO or RSPO credits has been growing steadily up to appr. 60% (current minimum required 33%). A next step would also be to include targets on segregated supply chains.\nTogether with other members of the Dutch Association for Sustainable Palm Oil (DASPO) we now aim for:\n - The Dutch Government to include the demand for the use of CSPO in Sustainable Purchasing Policy.  \n- Expand our focus towards more CSPO in the sectors Out-of-Home, Foodservice and Home & Personal Care. \n- Increased co-operation with other initiatives to work on 100% CSPO in EU, for example by adressing the issue in FEFAC (our European Trade Association).","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Others","More clarity about the role, or rather the absence of a role, of PKE in driving (possible deforestation. The palm oil <> PKE relationships, is sometimes compared to the soy bean oil <> soy meal relationships. However, both supply chains are very different, and - other than soy bean meal - we believe PKE do not play a role in deforstation, as the are only a small by-product in the production of palm oil and palm kernel oil.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of physical CSPO,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://assets.nevedi.nl/p/229376/none/20200918%20Factsheet%20Nevedi%20Palmolie.pdf\n https://www.nevedi.nl/nieuws/columnoverzicht/blog?blogpostid=10279354368"]
[null,"PT. Mutuagung Lestari","8-0082-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","PT MUTUAGUNG LESTARI is a RSPO Certification Body that established since 1990 and based in Indonesia. Our company Accredited by ASI (Assurance Services International) since 12 March 2014 for RSPO P&C Scope.","Promoting to the local company Oil Palm Growers to joint RSPO as an organisation that promote responsible Sustainable Palm Oil activities in the world. Conduct the RSPO certification audit with high level of integrity to assure all the certification unit implementing the sustainable palm oil practices.",25,"No","Yes","Our organisation funded through RSPO certification assessment that agreed by the RSPO members that would like to be certified with our Certification Body","Conduct the RSPO certification audit with improvement and high level of integrity to assure the\nimplementation of responsible and sustainable practices, in objective to give the value added to our clients as RSPO member.","Traceability issues",null,"Engagement with government agencies"]
[null,"PT. Sucofindo","8-0081-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification Services","We participated in RSPO and palm oil seminar, posting the information about sustainable palm oil in Sucofindo's website, audit of ISPO",10,"No","No","Not Applicable","Nowdays, We would like to promote sustainable palm oil by proposed to the client to be certified ISPO. In December 2018, we have resigned to be an RSPO certification body, but are still members of the RSPO.","Difficulties in the certification process",null,"Stakeholder engagement",null,"www.sucofindo.co.id/informasi-publik.html"]
[null,"PT. TUV Rheinland Indonesia","8-0080-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","\nPT TUV Rheinland Indonesia (TRID) is a private organization in the field of testing, inspecting and certification services and is a member of TUV Rheinland Group headquartered in Cologne, Germany.\n\nPreviously, PT TUV Rheinland Indonesia named PT TUV International Indonesia which was established in 1996 and after several discussion and consideration PT TUV International Indonesia changed its name into PT TUV Rheinland Indonesia in 2010.\n\nBesides having an office and Laboratory Testing in Jakarta, TRID also opened representative offices in Medan, Surabaya, Batam, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Balikpapan and Bali\nSince year 2014 PT TUV Rheinland Indonesia hold accreditation for s RSPO P&C and RSPO SCCS from ASI .\nWe certify RSPO members who to get RSPO certification.  ","Since year 2014 PT TUV Rheinland Indonesia hold accreditation for s RSPO P&C and RSPO SCCS from ASI .\nWe certify RSPO members who to get RSPO certification.  We ensure that RSPO member comply with RSPO requirement according to their selected standard and scheme.",10,"No","No","We funded by the member whom apply for certification.","Strive to conduct RSPO Certification following to the RSPO Certification system and other relevant procedure professionally, consistently, Independent, transparence and no conflict of interest. ","Others","High accreditation cost, tough competition among certification body, complicated to maintain accreditation during, while the member ask to pay certification cost very low and always compare with other certification bodies","Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"PT. SAI Global Indonesia","8-0077-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Indonesia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","We are the accredited certification body for RSPO SCC worldwide","Continue to provide certification of RSPO SCC worldwide.",16,"No","No","Revenue comes from invoicing of various clients who handle oil palm products and derivative thereof.","Provide worldwide RSPO SC Certification Services.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Others","a. Training of sales teams     b. High cost for qualifying a new lead auditor               c. Auditors maintenance.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Stakeholder engagement,Others","We have been providing other scheme for certification service as per principle and criteria of ISPO (Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil) from 2011 onward.","None"]
["Late","Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations Limited","8-0076-08-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association (FOSFA) is an international trade organisation that facilitates and supports the global trading and shipping of vegetable and animal oils and fats, oilseeds, and their derivatives.\n\nWe create and maintain international standard contracts that offer legal protection to reduce associated risks and provide appropriate procedures for the settlement of disputes by arbitration, should they arise. We exist to facilitate and support the global trading and shipping of these commodities.\n","We promote awareness of the RSPO and sustainable palm oil via our membership website, online communications, committees and via links with the RSPO.",30,"No","Yes","We are primarily funded via Membership subscriptions.","We have representative of the MPOB who serves on our Technical Committee who provides insight and guidance of CSPO.  In particular, we are considering issues related to POME.\n\nWe will also use our website and membership communications to promote exhibitions, conferences and seminars regarding CSPO and the RSPO. ","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Supply issues",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"The Proforest Initiative","8-0061-07-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Proforest helps people manage the world‚Äôs natural resources sustainably. We are an independent, international organisation that works alongside producers, industry, governments, NGOs and communities to help them understand and address their sustainability challenges, bridge their differences and arrive at effective, integrated solutions. We deliver our work by supporting companies, collaboration and providing knowledge and capacity.  Our work builds on a number of steps to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes through awareness, commitment, implementation, integration and scale to deliver goals. Our expertise delivers sustainable natural resource management ‚Äì from policy, investment and procurement to production on the ground. Our vision is to achieve Sustainable Livelihoods in Sustainable Landscapes, and our approach to responsible sourcing aims to contribute to this transformation.","We co-facilitated the RSPO Shared Responsibility Working Group with LiSeed and provided technical support in the implementation of shared responsibility i.e. the content and the mechanism of implementation that has been agreed upon through extensive consultation and endorsed by the BoG in October 2019.  \nWe facilitated and provided technical support to the RSPO Assurance Standing Committee (ASC). The facilitation of the process consisted of meeting coordination, communication, reporting and record keeping, while assuring accuracy, credibility of the process, attention to detail and timely progress to ensure ASC fulfils its mandates.\nSpecifically, with regards to increasing RSPO certification, we work with a range of companies in the Palm Oil Collaboration Group (POCG) and specifically on the Implementation Reporting Framework (IRF) which has RSPO certification as highest achievable outcome. RSPO certification is one of the main elements which contributes to the composition the IRF categories, therefore, we have created direct link to the certification. Apart from that, in other working groups under the POCG, like the Independent Verification Working Group, RSPO is included in all discussions around measuring performance across the supply base. We have a representative from RSPO US in one of the working groups ‚Äì Deforestation Independent Verification. RSPO team members are also invited to the POCG workshops which take place twice every year. \nAlso, we have recently developed the Palm Oil Toolkit which is designed to support companies in implementing commitments on responsible sourcing of palm oil, by-products and derivatives.  It is an accessible guide to the many initiatives that aim to address key environmental and social issues in the palm supply chain, namely deforestation, development on peat and human rights violations. https://palmoiltoolkit.net/.\nAs part of our Responsible Sourcing work, we have a sizeable Palm Oil portfolio, working with companies across the entire supply chain to support the sustainable production and responsible sourcing of palm oil, with RSPO certification advocated as key tool to achieving sustainability goals. Additionally, we support mills directly in various countries with efforts to achieve RSPO certification. We also support RSPO works through our clients and assistance in producing ACOP reports gathering data and tweaking the narrative.\nIn the context of smallholders move towards RSPO certification ‚Äì there is continuous support from company such as PepsiCo for getting more smallholders certified in Latin America. Last year, the first smallholders were certified in Mexico with Proforest support under the PepsiCo projects in Latin America & we developed a Guide for Independent Smallholders for RSPO Group certification, under our work with the Holistic Program with PepsiCo, Nestle and our local partner Oleopalma. This guide was developed with funds from RSPO RSSF funds. \nWe also contribute by providing feedback and comments on any RSPO public consultation such as the RSPO Certification Systems for Principles & Criteria & Independent Smallholders Standards & the first public consultation of the RSPO New Planting Procedure, and currently the RSPO Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) guidance.\nWe carried out a research on the impact monitoring systems of some palm oil sustainability schemes recognized by the German Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP) where RSPO system was reviewed. https://www.forumpalmoel.org/imglib/Studien/Impact%20monitoring%20of%20palm%20oil%20sustainability%20schemes.pdf \nWe are RSPO-endorsed training providers for the RSPO Lead Auditor P&C and Lead Auditor Supply Chain Certification (SCCLA) and this year we submitted our RSPO SCCLA materials and online course agenda for RSPO approval. We are increasingly providing online training on all aspects of RSPO and sustainable palm oil to a wide host of audiences as well as a wide range of HCV/HCS/FPIC/SIA courses in various countries. \nMore broadly, Proforest is leading the Africa Practitioners Network for building the capacity of auditors in Africa through training and mentoring: http://www.proforest.net/en/programmes/africa/africa-practitioners-network  and has set up the Village Facilitators Network in Riau as a first initiative to also develop an Indonesian Practitioners Network.\nProforest is also the coordinator of the Africa Palm Oil Initiative, launched by the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 (TFA) in 2014, whose focus is the development of principles for responsible palm oil production in West and Central Africa: https://www.tfa2020.org/activities/african-palm-oil-initiative/. As part of this the RSPO P&C 2018 have become a strong reference point, with countries including the P&C into their country principles.\nAdditionally, we have established a Production Landscapes Programme with funding from DfID, which focuses on landscapes in several countries including Ghana and Indonesia and looks at palm oil, cocoa and rubber sectors in those landscapes.\nWe are also frequently asked by various clients to provide benchmarks of standards including RSPO.\n",50,"Yes","Yes","Through private sector companies and grant funding, depending on the nature of the project or\nprogramme work concerned. Also, we cover our costs for training provision via course participant fees and service provisioning for RSPO directly is charged at our lower non-for profit rates.","In addition to the work already described in section 1, we are likely to carry on the process facilitation of the ASC. In light of the current global Covid-19 pandemic, we aim to increase our online capacity building options as well as carry on supporting companies remotely in their efforts to implement RSPO requirements through our e-learning platform. ","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Stakeholder engagement"]
[null,"SIRIM QAS International Sdn Bhd","8-0035-06-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","PROVIDES RSPO CERTIFICATION","PROMOTE CERTIFICATION TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL",10,"No","No","SERVICE FEE","CERTIFICATION SERVICE","Others","MEMBERS COMMITMENT IN UPHOLDING THE RSPO STANDARD REQUIREMENTS","Others","ENCOURAGE RSPO TOGETHER WITH MSPO CERTIFICATION - TO INCREASE OVERALL CERTIFIED VOLUME","NA"]
[null,"T.S.L (Trading Services London)","8-0031-06-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Vegetable Oil Brokerage","Increased awareness of the RSPO and the sustainability of RSPO Palm Oil to our customer base",80,"No","No","Commission Based","Continue to promote the work of the RSPO and the availability of RSPO certified oil.","Reputation of palm oil in the market,Supply issues,Others","End consumers not willing to pay the premiums being asked for RSPO material","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Promotion of physical CSPO"]
[null,"Control Union (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd","8-0025-06-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Certification and Inspection Services","Conducting certification auditing and webinar training on RSPO P&C, SCC, NPP worldwide",50,"Yes","Yes","Organizing awareness and training programs, taking part in trade shows. ","Organizing awareness, training programs as well as approaching youth on sustainability awareness and career opportunities in the sustainability sector.","Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://certifications.controlunion.com/en/certification-programs/certification-programs/rspo-rountable-on-sustainable-palm-oil"]
[null,"National Edible Oil Distributors' Association","8-0017-05-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","United Kingdom","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The National Edible Oil Distributor's Association (NEODA) are a UK based trade association who's members include edible oil and fats refiners, processors, distributors, waste oil collectors (who also sell fresh oil). \n\nThe association‚Äôs key objective is to promote the interests of its members and raise standards across the entire edible oil packing and distributive trade. ","NEODA has regular contact with the RSPO and is an active member of the UK Roundtable on sustainable palm oil. We have supported the move towards sustainable palm oil for over 11 years, with the assistance of our refiner members, and have had the RSPO present updates at our AGM.\n\nWe have been working with EFECA (Economics Climate Environment) to promote the move towards 100% segregated palm oil. We have interviewed to understand what the barriers were to do this and have then helped work towards breaking down these barriers. We have now adopted a change in our code of practice, which is voluntary at first, to support 100% segregated palm oil.",20,"No","Yes","As we are trade association, we are funded through our members. We are fortunate to have all of the main refiners as our members, including Daabon, Bunge, ADM/Olenex, Cargill and AAK.","We will implement the new code of practice in the coming months and are still working with EFECA, funded by the UK government, on a new communications program to address the public. \n\nWe will continue to support our members in their move towards 100% segregated targets and assist them in communicating with their customer base.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Supply issues",null,"Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Promotion of physical CSPO,Research & Development support",null,"https://www.neoda.org.uk/sustainability/"]
[null,"FEDIOL - EU Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry","8-0008-04-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","Belgium","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","FEDIOL represents the interests of the EU crushers and vegetable oil refiners towards European Institutions. Industries affiliated to FEDIOL (about 180 plants operating in 17 EU Member States) are crushing oilseeds and refining crude vegetable oils, both locally grown and imported. FEDIOL addresses issues of common interest to our companies and does it generally in horizontally manner. Our working groups deal with food and feed safety, food and feed regulatory issues, nutrition, trade, environment and sustainability, agricultural policy and supply chain issues.","FEDIOL has working groups on Environment and on Sustainability which have regular discussions on topics relevant for sustainable palm oil up-take in Europe. Voluntary company initiatives to fight deforestation and certification related issues are also discussed. Our working groups deal with policy topics that can have a considerable impact on RSPO certification, such as the European Green Deal and related policies (Farm-to-Fork, Biodiversity, Renewable Energy Directive). In the up-coming EU regulatory initiatives, FEDIOL supported the value added of certification systems in driving supply chain transformation. FEDIOL continued carrying out an annual monitoring of certified sustainable palm and palm kernel oil based on member companies' reporting. FEDIOL continued cooperating with EU associations under ESPOAG (European Sustainable Palm Oil Advocacy Group) to support the use of sustainable palm oil and address possible impediments to its uptake.",10,"Yes","Yes","FEDIOL is an association exclusively funded through membership contributions. Our activities are decided on a yearly basis by the FEDIOL General Assembly. They are mostly horizontal, which means that even if action can be focused when needed on rapeseed, soybeans, sunflower seed oil or palm oil (for example), there is no isolated budget to cover these specific actions; the common funds serve all identified priorities, they are policy driven and not commodity specific.","FEDIOL will continue participating in the policy discussions on up-coming EU regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives to fight deforestation and to prevent products with embedded deforestation to enter the EU market. In this context, FEDIOL will support making use of a smart mix of measures, including certifications systems such as RSPO, that should be available for companies to help their efforts in supply chain transformation. FEDIOL will use different opportunities, events, workshops and EU policy discussions at EU level to emphasize the benefits in using sustainable palm oil instead of banning palm oil from certain usages. \nFEDIOL will continue undertaking the monitoring of sustainable palm oil that is used by its member companies. After the COVID19 pandemic, we hope being able to enhance our engagement with other stakeholders, for example, within the European Sustainable Palm Oil Advocacy Group (ESPOAG), where issues arising around the up-take of sustainable palm oil can be addressed.\n","Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Stakeholder engagement",null,"https://www.fediol.eu/data/Oil%20Monitoring%202019_FINAL_web.pdf"]
[null,"Cirad","8-0004-04-000-00","Organisations","Affiliate","France","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","CIRAD is the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions. \nAlong with its partners, CIRAD promotes the pivotal part played by agriculture in the major transitions required to guarantee a sustainable future for every country in the global South. Generating and sharing new knowledge, contributing to innovation processes and building the capacity and skills of stakeholders in these countries to support their sustainable development are the drivers of CIRAD's operations. \nIn particular, CIRAD activities focus on\nissues such as biodiversity, the agroecological transition, climate change, health (of plants, animals, and ecosystems), the development of rural territories, and food systems.\nCIRAD works in some fifty countries on every continent, thanks to the expertise of its 1650 staff members, including 800 researchers, backed by a global network of partners.","CIRAD is engaged in a partnership for the generation of knowledge on sustainable palm oil production, thus providing science-based evidence to the certification process and related activities. CIRAD and the Alliance for Preservation of Forests have recently renewed their three-year partnership agreement, which draws on CIRAD's expertise to support the Alliance's work with its members to develop the sustainable palm oil chain and protect biodiversity in all oil palm growing regions globally. \nCIRAD is currently working on the gradual strengthening of a network of technical, scientific, and technology transfer projects conducted in partnership in South East Asia on the sustainability of perennial cropping systems. This program, called SALSA (Sustainable Agricultural Systems in Southeast Asia), supported by the Alliance for the Preservation of Forests, should allow a concrete integration of disciplines and multi-stakeholder teams on a network of experimental platforms in South-East Asia.\nA decision support Tool for Pesticide Management How to assess the risks of pesticide leakages in order to improve practices? Research is aiming at adapting an agri-environmental indicator derived from the INDIGO, I-Pest-Palm method, taking into account the very specific palm oil practices and the culture conditions favoring or not the risks of leakage. The indicator has been validated using herbicide loss measurements on experimental plots over several years. \nThe idea is to provide science-based information against the belief that the oil palm is a big consumer of pesticides. \nLife cycle analysis of compost from oil mill residues How to recycle oil palm waste to reduce the carbon impact of CPO production while improving soil quality?\nThe process of composting mill residues allows the concentration of residual nutrients in the waste to optimize the logistical cost of return to the field; it reduces the external input of synthetic mineral fertilizers and limits the generation of greenhouse gases\nemitted during the anaerobic treatment of effluents because they are injected into the composting process without being treated. On the other hand, the composting process itself requires energy and can emit greenhouse gases. The life cycle analysis approach, through its holistic perspective, allows for a complete assessment of whether the final impact is indeed positive and where the process can be improved to reduce its negative impacts. C. \n\nSocioeconomic mapping of bushfires over the 2009-2015 period including the El Nino episode (in partnership with WRI) This project focuses on the economic\nand social typology of fire outbreaks and on the identification of risk areas and families of probable\ncauses. Ongoing research relies on the establishment of prospective models. The aim is to address the misconception that fire outbreaks and their regional consequences (haze) are mainly due to activities from the oil palm industry. The idea is that replacing rural practices (getting rid of biomass residues by using fire) through the purchase of biomass from villagers could prevent up to 42% of fires. This study presently focuses on the impact of industrial concessions exploiting the oil palm, certified RSPO or not, on fire outbreaks.\n\nHarvesting of biomass and peatland restoration at a pilot District level The project\nunder discussion with Ogan Komering Ilir district - OKI in South Sumatra and Bureau of Peatland Restoration of Indonesia). An R&D Project BIGHGDEAL: Biorefineries, GHG and DEgraded Agricultural Landscapes, is presently under design with Universiti Putra Malaisia. The aim is to innovate sustainably\nto fight against the outbreak of fires: to give value to the biomass to push to harvest it on the village exploitations. The project is also based on the restoration of peatland areas in agreement with their inhabitants, giving villagers a sustainable economic activity with a high ecological impact: the valorization of biomass for the production of energy and/or biomaterials.\n\nThe SALSA Platform \nIn order to realize this ambition, CIRAD is setting up a Platform in partnership for the construction of scientific projects and training curricula with its public and private partners in Southeast Asia, a region of the world where problems related to the sustainability of major agricultural sectors are particularly prominent (deforestation, rural poverty reduction, family farming, etc.). SALSA (Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes in Southeast Asia) aims to federate and mobilize regional scientific and training skills in the sustainability of perennial crop sectors. SALSA will promote, within a framework of collective action, the concrete\nintegration of disciplines and multi-stakeholder teams into research, training and development projects.\n\nTRAILS - climaTe Resilient lAndscapes for wIldLife conservation.\n \"TRAILS\" is a research project which aims to contribute to the establishment of innovative agroforestry systems,combining perennial crops and forests, intended to meet both environmental challenges (preservation of biodiversity and fight against climate change ) and the objectives of improving the living conditions of rural populations, which the models of economic development followed in South-East Asia, and in particular in Malaysia, have not yet managed to achieve entirely satisfactory results. This project draws on the expertise of CIRAD (main partner) and its Malaysian partners from academic circles (University\nPutra Malaysia, University Malaya), Civil Society (the French NGO Hutan for the protection of orangutans in Borneo ), and the oil palm plantation sector (Melangking Oil Palm Plantations-MOPP).",4,"Yes","Yes","Cirad is a French public research institution, funded by the French Government for up to 60% of its budget. \nThe remaining part of its resources is derived from R&D projects supported by a variety of funding agencies, ranging from governments to the European Commission and the private sector.","Cirad will continue to play an original role in the sustainable palm o√Øl Community while providing science-based evidence to many initiatives supported by RSPO.","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of RSPO in the market",null,"Engagement with government agencies,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Research & Development support",null,"https://www.cirad.fr/en/our-research/tropical-value-chains/oil-palm/context-and-issues"]
[null,"MVO","2-0137-09-000-00","Palm Oil Processors and/or Traders","Ordinary","Netherlands","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","MVO represents 95% of companies in the Netherlands that are active in the production, processing and trade of vegetable and animal oils and fats. We represent the interests of the sector in contacts with the government, politics, social organizations, science and media. For our members we have a platform function and offer services. In addition, we act as the spokesperson of the sector.","We promote the sustainable production of raw materials. We promote biorefining and the use of renewable raw materials for the production of food, feed, materials and energy. We encourage a sustainable and energy-efficient way of working. We are committed to the transition to a circular economy. We have been supporting RSPO from the start. We do this in various ways, for example through means of the following: Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil (DASPO) The DASPO (joint alliance involving MVO, VERNOF, FNLI, VBZ, IMACE-NL, Nevedi, AKSV, VAVI, CBL and IDH) is the successor of the Task Force on Sustainable Palm Oil. DASPO's ambition is to adhere to the goal of having 100% sustainable palm oil for the Dutch market. Over the coming years the emphasis will be on increasing physically certified sustainable palm oil and on improving the standards for sustainable palm oil. DASPO publishes an annual monitoring report. MVO is chairing the DASPO and provides the secretarial services. MVO is also the spokesperson for sustainable palm oil in the Netherlands. European Sustainable Palm Oil (ESPO) MVO and IDH, the sustainable trade initiative, are the initiators of the ESPO project. Now the collaboration  is between EPOA and IDH (sse below). The objective was to realise 100% sustainable palm oil in Europe by 2020. The project provides support to, and aligns between national initiatives working on sustainable palm oil in Europe. Although the target has not beenachieved the project will continue in the coming years.\nFurthermore, there are a number of actions to broaden political and governmental support for this approach within and outside Europe (for example, by increasing the number of Amsterdam Declaration signatories) and to gain support among social and environmental organisations for sustainable palm oil. At the same time this sends an important signal to markets like China, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. European Palm Oil Alliance (EPOA) The image of palm oil in Europe is under severe pressure in the food industry, among retailers, politicians, the public and social organisations due to questions concerning sustainable production, as well as health aspects. EPOA is an initiative of European palm oil refiners and palm oil producers (Indonesia/Malaysia) and helps to create a balanced and objective debate about palm oil and promotes the production and use of sustainable palm oil in foods.\nEPOA closely works together with ESPOAG (European Sustainable Palm Oil Advocacy Group) in Brussels and various national palm oil initiatives to lobby the EC and EP. MVO is chair and secretary of EPOA. Furyhermore MVO is linked to and contributing to SPOC, Sustainable Palm Oil Choice, promoting the use of sust PO worldwide.\n",35,"Yes","Yes","MVO is a member organisation. Funding via members.","MVO will continue the work within the Dutch Alliance on Sustainable Palm Oil. Furthermore it will continue the work done within the EPOA framework and work together with organisations like IDH etc. Also within the SPOC framework, MVO will contribute to promoting sust PO. This includes lobbying at National and international level (including Brussel EU).\n","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Others","For years already, the reputation of PO is not good. In the Netherlands we were/are also confronted with brands like the Flower Farm. This negative\nimage hampers the uptake. This is something we need to change at national and international level. MVO, DASPO, EPOA are working on all levels with all stakeholders. This also included outreach to policy makers.","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Promotion of physical CSPO,Others","See above. This is actually at the heart of our (lobbying) activities. Also refer to the reports issued by DASPO and EPOA","MVO: https://mvo.nl/sustainable-development \nDASPO: https://www.taskforceduurzamepalmolie.nl/ \nEPOA: https://palmoilalliance.eu/\nand\nhttps://palmoilalliance.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/New-Palm-IG-6.5.pdf\nSPOC: https://www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/"]
[null,"FEDEPALMA - National Federation of Oil Palm Growers of Colombia","1-0010-04-000-00","Oil Palm Growers","Ordinary","Colombia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","Fedepalma is an organization that represents oil palm growers and mills. It promotes the adoption of Good Agricultural and Manufacturing Practices, aiming for a more productive, competitive and sustainable palm oil sector in Colombia. ","Fedepalma was the Secretary of the National Interpretation Taskforce (NITF) from February 2019 to November 2020, when the Colombian NI was approved by the RSPO BoG. During that period, Fedepalma organized NITF meetings, prepared meeting minutes and draft NI documents, as well as NI reports and the final NI document for RSPO revision. \n\nFedepalma has been an Ordinary Member of the RSPO since 2004, and for the past 16 years it has been promoting the adoption of sustainable practices as well as RSPO certification among its members. During the reporting period, Fedepalma began implementing a project to identify sustainability gaps with more than 400 smallholders in the Northern Oil Palm Zone of the country. This project was financed by IDH and it might have a second phase, covering a larger number of smallholders in other Oil Palm regions in Colombia. \n\nFedepalma's Social Lead has been participating in the RSPO Human Rights Working Group.\n\nBetween December 2019 and December 2020, RSPO certified CPO in Colombia grew from 278.500 to 380.500 tons, a 34% increase. In that same period, RSPO certified companies in Colombia increased 35% (17 to 23).",100,"Yes","Yes","In Colombia there is a 1.5% tax on the price of CPO produced. The funds collected with this tax, which every mill has to pay, are administered by Fedepalma. They fund Fedepalma and Cenipalma's (the Colombian Palm Oil Research Center) work.   ","Fedepalma will continue to promote the adoption of sustainable practices and RSPO certification with its members, through its diverse communication channels, as well as through the work of its Planning and Sustainable Development Unit, as well as through Cenipalma's Extension Program. This program works together will palm oil mills to identify gaps in the adoption of sustainable practices, and to draft and implement plans to close those gaps.    ","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Others","There is still an awareness gap in the Colombian market regarding RSPO certification. \nThe RSPO certification process is becoming more complicated with new requirements and procedures. Some take too long and response times from the RSPO Secretariat take too much much (i.e. Remediation and Compensation procedure, and LUCA). \nSmallholder certification is still a big challenge in Colombia, where very few smallholders are certified. \nIn general, RSPO is still very centralized in Southeast Asia (SEA). Although the LATAM office has helped in raising concerns withy the RSPO Secretariat and improving response times, most decisions are made in SEA based on the realities and context of this region. ","Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Stakeholder engagement,Others","Fedepalma engages with business partners, consumers, government agencies, and other stakeholders in diverse topics, one of them being the promotion of sustainable palm oil. \n\nWe provide information on the specific context and conditions of the Colombian palm oil sector that make us unique and differentiated, such as our high level of labor formality and good working conditions without exploitation, and our growth and development without significant deforestation or establishment on peatlands.\n\nTogether with Cenipalma, the Oil Palm Research Center of Colombia, we provide R&D support and Extension services in environmental and social issues.","Why sustainable palm oil from Colombia? https://repositorio.fedepalma.org/handle/123456789/112123\n\nColombian oil palm agro-industry: development with low impact on deforestation\nhttps://repositorio.fedepalma.org/handle/123456789/112122 \n\nColombian palm oil sector: Deforestation Free Development Potential https://repositorio.fedepalma.org/handle/123456789/112121\n\nThe ABC of HCVs\nhttps://repositorio.fedepalma.org/handle/123456789/129568\n\nLandscape Management Tools ‚Äì LMTs: Biodiversity conservation strategy in oil palm crops\nhttps://repositorio.fedepalma.org/handle/123456789/109555\n\n"]
[null,"MALAYSIAN PALM OIL ASSOCIATION","1-0002-04-000-00","Oil Palm Growers","Ordinary","Malaysia","No",null,"I am an Affiliate member of the RSPO, indirectly involved in the palm oil industry","The Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) is the umbrella body for Oil Palm Growers in Malaysia. The Association has been tasked with the important function of providing a platform to voice the concerns and strategic thinking of the industry to constantly improve the palm oil industry in terms of sustainability, economic growth and social values. MPOA provides the relevant support to its members and industry. \n\n","'- Actively contributed to the development and improvement of sustainability standards\n- organized and facilitated the RSPO MYNI Processes\n- being a platform to voice the issues faced by Malaysian Growers \n- constantly updating MPOA RSPO members on important RSPO announcements and deadlines \n- constantly engaging RSPO to address issues faced by the Growers ",98,"Yes","Yes","Via membership fees ","By strongly advocating the uptake of CSPO especially amongst RSPO members, as part of the shared responsibility ","Awareness of RSPO in the market,Difficulties in the certification process,Certification of smallholders,Competition with non-RSPO members,High costs in achieving or adhering to certification,Human rights issues,Insufficient demand for RSPO-certified palm oil,Low usage of palm oil,Reputation of palm oil in the market,Reputation of RSPO in the market,Traceability issues,Others","Developing and improving sustainability standards ","Engagement with business partners or consumers on the use of CSPO,Engagement with government agencies,Promotion of CSPO outside of RSPO venues such as trade workshops or industry associations,Providing funding or support for CSPO development efforts,Stakeholder engagement"]