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Can palm oil truly be sustainable? Malaysia offers a certification model we’ve been waiting for The Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification is redefining the responsible supply chain from producer to consumer, writes Robert Hii. Adobe stock 11 May 2021 A new UN report entitled, Making Peace With Nature”, finds that nearly 90 percent of all known species are threatened by climate change. Another UN report warns the world is “nowhere close” to fighting climate change. Unsurprisingly, panicked governments are adopting short-sighted solutions, and in the process are missing important templates for slowing, and even reversing, climate change. Malaysia offers such a template; as a leading palm oil producer, the country’s progress towards sustainability deserves to be both widely studied and rewarded with robust trade agreements. The key to its success in slowing deforestation has been - if not solely, at least in part - due to its nationally mandated certificati

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