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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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3 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
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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 YouUpper Penthouse,Wisma RKT,No 2 Jalan Raja Abdullah,50300 Kuala [email protected]
www.wildasia.net
