New at datasci.social! A short intro: I analyze the #sustainability of the supply chains of mainly food processing companies, especially related to #deforestation and #scope3 #CO2 #emission around various #commodities such as #oilpalm #soy #coffee and #cocoa. With others I model #aboveground #biomass using EO data #landat #sentinel-1 #sentinel2 #gedi and combine it with historic and near-realtime #deforestation #detections

✊🌴 Japan’s palm oil power push is faltering

Concerns about #biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions & #humanrights have led to local opposition to Japan's #palmoil power plans.

"The withdrawal from the palm oil #power generation business in Maizuru city… was successful due to the passionate actions of local residents,"
- Yuichiro Ishizaki, with Osaka-based environmental non-profit Hutan

✍️ @ncoca reports

🔎 Click here to read more:
https://loom.ly/aJT7RcQ

#oilpalm #Japan #energy #biomass

📹 NEW DOCUMENTARY

"We are hoping to leave a permanent positive print in the Kinabatangan ecosystem."

✊🌱 Meet Maz, a local conservationist working to restore the once-rich ecosystem of the lower Kinabatangan River, damaged by decades of logging and oil palm planting.

👀 Click here to watch:
https://loom.ly/I3zlzIA

#palmoil #documentary #ecosystem #ecosystems #logging #oil #palmoil #newdocumentary #oilpalm #rivers

🌴 "They take all the harvest from plasma smallholders but has never delivered any corporate social responsibility."

💰 Indonesia has welcomed investments by Chinese companies in its #palmoil industry, but local communities have accused them of neglecting local needs.

🔎 Read more:
https://loom.ly/6IJiWeQ

#oilpalm #palm #sustainableagriculture #socialjustice

"Book Review: Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone by Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi" by Paul Thung

#anthropology #PoliticalEconomy #PoliticalEcology #Indonesia #Kalimantan @anthropology #OilPalm #Plantation #BookReview

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2023/01/23/book-review-plantation-life-corporate-occupation-in-indonesias-oil-palm-zone-by-tania-murray-li-and-pujo-semedi/

Zero-deforestation policies are reducing the loss of #Topical #Rainforest to #OilPalm expansion, but spatial analyses indicate that this may cause unintended large-scale loss of #Biodiverse #Grasslands and dry forests unless protections are extended under certification agreements: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01913-w and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01941-6

RT @WorldRainforest: #RSPO: 19 years is enough! 100 organisations denounce Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and commit to actions that can truly serve communities and put an end to the colonialist model of industrial #oilpalm plantations https://www.farmlandgrab.org/31261

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1598817307043983360

🌴 "It’s never clear who will cover the cost of the [segregated] volume"

- Ir Qua Kiat Seng, Monash University Malaysia

✍️ Robert Hii explains why #palmoil supply chains would simpler if producer country standards were more widely recognised

🔎 Find out more:
https://loom.ly/rvF0MnI

#sustainablepalmoil #environment #climatechange #climate #deforestation #oilpalm #Malaysia