On behalf of the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, Efeca has written the 2021 Annual Progress Report (published in November 2022). Since the inception of the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil in 2012, a decade of reporting has shown that the proportion of UK imports of palm and palm kernel oil […]

Climate change is an issue of growing prominence and urgency, with sustainable land use and agricultural practices, particularly involving commodities like palm oil, playing a crucial role in mitigating its impacts. According to the IPCC, deforestation and forest degradation contribute approximately 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly through carbon emissions. However, protecting and restoring […]

As part of our palm oil programme of support to the UK industry, Efeca recently published a newsletter and five briefing notes on palm oil sustainability certification schemes including RSPO, ISPO, MSPO, NDPE and ISCC. The schemes all have different criteria and vary in their impact to date. RSPO is a global, multistakeholder initiative on […]

Efeca facilitates the UK Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative (SPOI), including the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, under the Partnerships for Forests programme. The Roundtable brings together diverse representation from UK industry in a pre-competitive space to work collectively towards a goal of sustainable, resilient supplies of palm oil to the UK market. […]