The RSPO Secretariat is pleased to announce that a revised strategy on living wage (LW) has been developed, and has been approved by the Living Wage Taskforce and endorsed by the Standards Standing Committee (SSC). Departing from the previous benchmark-focused methodology, the revised strategy adopts a stepwise approach to LW implementation, wherein each step of […]
Author: Carol Yeo
Register now for the first RSPO Inter-American Conference in Miami!
Registration is now open for the first RSPO Inter-American Conference in Miami, USA on 30-31 May 2023, which will be held at the Kimpton EPIC Hotel. Focused on the theme, “From Emerging to Thriving: The role of the Americas as leaders for sustainable palm oil,” the region’s main conference advancing the sustainability of the palm […]
First Independent Smallholder Group in Aceh, Indonesia achieves RSPO and ISPO certification
The first independent smallholder group in Aceh Province, Indonesia has successfully obtained RSPO and ISPO certification. In November 2022, nearly 400 members of the PESATRI (Perkumpulan Pekebun Sawit Tenggulun Lestari) smallholders group achieved certification through a landscape-based programme initiated by IDH and its partners PepsiCo and Unilever, and implemented by local NGO FKL (Leuser Conservation […]
