Sustainability in Oil Palm By Shafinaz Suhaimi Sustainability Advisor, Wild Asia

Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation

Wild Asia’s Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

Sustainability from a non-accountant’s perspective: Part II

Sustainability in Oil Palm By Shafinaz Suhaimi

Sustainability Advisor, Wild Asia

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About WA

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About Wild Asia

Conservation-based social

enterprise based in Malaysia

Core Programme Areas:-

Sustainable Agriculture

Initiative

Responsible Tourism

Initiative

Environmental Education

Plant-a-Tree campaign

Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation

Current issues in the market

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What’s out in the open

Forest loss

& OP

expansion

Increased wild animal trade

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What’s out in the open

“Peat & climate change”

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What’s out in the open

“Fires & land

clearing”

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What’s out in the open

“Indigenous peoples Rights”

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What’s out in the open

“Chemical use & worker safety”

Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation

Background to RSPORoundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil

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What is RSPO? A Swiss-registered association

formalised in 2003

Secretariat in Malaysia & branch in

Indonesia

Increasingly referenced by other global

initiatives (eg: biofuels)

Entire supply chain from producers to

buyers.

Founding members inc. MPOA,

Golden Hope, Unilever, Sainsbury,

Migros

Social & Environmental NGOs

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RSPO: A point of reference

Becoming a reference for sustainability in

trade & finance.

Credit requirements for loans reference

RSPO; banks developing compliance

checks around RSPO P&C.

Sustainability criteria for trade in

Biofuels (EU-Cramer Commission; Gold

Label Standards for CDM).

Our approach

Direct engagement Bottom-up Guide

Looking at the bigger picture where businesses operate, i.e. HCV

Landscape Conservation Assessments

Looking at the people and communities where businesses operate

Social Impact Assessments

Building people to support your policies

Training & Capacity Building

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• Baseline Assessments

• Supply Chain Assurance

• Biodiversity Assessments

• Social Impact Assessments

• Policy Development

• Training / Capacity Building

In partnership with…

Worked with the largest & the unlikeliest

With multi-national conglomerate and largest OP company, Sime Darby & social NGO Tenaganita: Bottom-up consultative rights-based approach to policy development and training

With the small and motivated

• Long term advisory support:

• Plantations and mill operations

• Social responsibility

• Environment / biodiversity protection

• Effective communication and reporting to stakeholders.

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Conclusion

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Challenges

“Accounting for social &

environmental costs?”

Making sustainability real on the ground.

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Thank You

Upper Penthouse,

Wisma RKT,

No 2 Jalan Raja Abdullah,

50300 Kuala Lumpur

[email protected]

www.wildasia.net