Agricultural commodities such as rubber, timber and palm oil are the biggest source of fortunes.
In Malaysia, exporters have stopped selling palm oil to Iran, because they cannot get paid.
Analysts, though, point to strong profit growth from Genting's palm oil plantations and oil-and-gas-production business.
An all-party scrutiny committee agreed new payments for renewable energy - including palm oil.
Its recovery has been pulled along by Chinese hunger for commodities notably coal and palm oil.
They decouple the physical flow of palm oil from the sustainability of the farms.
Nestle was targeted for using Sinar Mas, the offending producer and supplier of palm oil in Indonesia.
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Examples discussed included export restrictions in China on rare earth metals and in Indonesia on palm oil.
As a result, palm oil uses significantly less land to generate the same amount of usable energy.
Yet burning a tonne of palm oil instead of fossil fuel saves only three tonnes of emissions.
The Awa started to fight the takeover of their territories for palm oil plantations 16 years ago.
Mr Neath added that because palm oil had so many uses, not even Unilever had much leverage.
There is, however, a potentially bigger environmental cost in the producing bags from cornstarch or palm oil.
Commodity markets have been kind to Indonesia with its abundant reserves of coal, copper, palm oil and gold.
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Unilever then buys a certificate from the Green Palm Programme for every ton of palm oil they purchase.
Unilever keeps buying its palm oil the same old way: sometimes without any clue where it came from.
Nestle was forced to confront the fact that its use of palm oil was linked to deforestation in Indonesia.
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Profit gained in part on lower costs for sugar, potato starch and palm oil compared with a year earlier.
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For example, Malaysia restricts its palm oil production to 20% of the land which is allocated for agricultural purposes.
And the price of one of its main products--palm oil, widely used for cooking in tropical Africa--also went haywire.
Still, last week, Jakarta seemed set to break a pledge to lift the export ban on crude palm oil.
It is no good China planting kingdoms of eucalyptus at home while bulldozing Congo's rainforest to grow palm oil.
In Asia orangutans are being overrun by palm oil plantations and coffee farms.
Bakrie-controlled companies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance.
If palm oil is used as a vegetable oil then it will have to be stated on the label.
It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
The ISPO will drastically improve the environmental standards of local palm oil companies.
For years, worries about palm oil have been contained within an organisation called the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
Orange juice, corn, soybeans and palm oil have all stretched to near three-year highs in the past week or so.
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In November China Agri-Industries, a subsidiary of COFCO, established a partnership with Wilmar, the world's largest trader in palm oil.
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