Move set to deliver greater transparency to the sustainable palm oil sector.
The government has given the green light to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Secretariat to publish its members’ oil palm concession maps for Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak on its interactive map application, GeoRSPO.
With the GeoRSPO, details such as the palm oil concession boundaries of RSPO members in Malaysia, including relevant data such as active hotspots as well as tree cover loss and gains, can be viewed by the public.“It is a great step forward for transparency and accountability and we hope this move will bring greater objectivity to discussions on fires and other topics that have sometimes been attributed to the palm oil sector,” chief executive officer Darrel Webber said in a statement today.
Since January 2018, the RSPO Secretariat, through its Geographic Information System unit, had been actively monitoring hotspots in both RSPO certified and non-certified concessions in Malaysia and Indonesia via satellite technology.
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