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Jul 19, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
🌴 As part of day 3 of #PalmOilAwarenessWeek, we wanted to dive deeper into some key challenges around #SustainablePalmOil production.

(Graphic: Héloïse Dorsan Rachet)

#POAW2023 @josiepips @ForestPeoplesP @GlobalCanopy 🧵1/11 Text: Key challenges around sustainable palm oil production.   Illustration shows oil palm trees in the foreground, with a truck transporting oil palm along a road in the background Challenges persist around the context of #deforestation, i.e. whether it is legal or illegal depends on forest and land governance in affected regions. Regardless, the implications for emissions, biodiversity, and people remain significant.
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Nov 28, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
🚨 News Digest: Guizhou to mandate bundling new renewable projects with coal

✍️ Check out this update from our Beijing team

🧵1/14 Arati Kumar-Rao / China Dialogue 🔋In a recent policy draft for public comment, Guizhou province makes it official that, in order to get approval, new solar ☀️ and wind 🌬️ projects should be bundled with other regulating power sources.

🔎 Find out more:
guangfu.bjx.com.cn/news/20221114/…

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Nov 28, 2022 10 tweets 9 min read
🌴Today our #palmoil reporting team arrived in Kuala Lumpur where they will deliver a breakout session at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's (@RSPOtweets) annual conference later this week.

✋Here are 5️⃣ things you should know before RSPO’s #RT2022:

✍️ @josiepips

🧵1/10 Image 1️⃣ Formed in 2004, the RSPO brings together stakeholders from across the global #palmoil industry including:
🌴 Producers
🤝 Processors + traders
🏭 Consumer goods manufacturers
🛒 Retailers
💰 Banks + investors
✊ Environmental + social NGOs

#RT2022 @RSPOtweets #DYK

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Nov 18, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read
🎙️Meet the speakers

🌴China Dialogue Trust will be holding a break-out session during this year's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

🪡Check out this thread to learn about our speakers

If you are attending #RT2022, look out for our session!

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@RSPOtweets #palmoil 🎙️Dr Sam Geall (@samgeall)
💼CEO, China Dialogue

Sam is CEO of China Dialogue, an associate fellow at @ChathamHouse & associate faculty at @SPRU, at the University of Sussex. He edited China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books, 2013).

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