The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and sustainable solutions provider IDH have announced four new endorsers of the Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD) manifesto.
Launched during the 4th European Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue, the SPOD Manifesto calls for consumer goods manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers to strengthen responsible production and consumption of palm oil.
The four additional endorsers join 13 companies and organisations who have already given their endorsement. They were announced following an interactive discussion held by the RSPO and IDH on 24 January to examine two of the manifesto’s four calls to action which are closely interlinked: smallholder inclusion and landscape approaches.
The new endorsers included testing, inspection and certification service provider BM Trada, the Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil (DASPO), Eti Sverige (The Swedish Platform on Risk Commodities) and the Orangutan Land Trust, the RSPO said on 31 January.
“The manifesto’s call to action summarises what we are striving for: physical sourcing of more sustainable palm oil, sustainable landscapes, smallholder inclusion, and to communicate what we are doing,” Eti Swerige representative Miriam Thunborg said.
The RSPO said activities around the SPOD Manifesto would continue in the next few months and would include conversations with current endorsers that would showcase best practices and learning sessions on what endorsers could do next to advance sustainable palm oil through the manifesto’s four calls to action.
