Unilever to buy palmoil from sustainable sources by 2015

Unilever announced that it has secured enough GreenPalm certificates of sustainable palm oil to cover the requirements of its European, Australian and New Zealand-business.

This announcment means that they will be able to buy all their palm oil from certified sustainable sources by 2015. GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme, endorsed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil. By selling certificates through the GreenPalm programme, palm oil producers can earn more for their crop through sustainable farming.