Companies: Palm Oil

(asked on 11th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress (a) Unilever and (b) other UK companies have made on meeting the target of 100 per cent use of sustainable palm oil.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 19th June 2020

In 2012, the Government and UK industry established a UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, to support efforts to increase the use of certified palm oil in the UK market. Figures from the UK Roundtable indicate that the UK's imports of certified sustainable palm oil rose from 16% in 2010 to 77% in 2018. The roundtable tracks only aggregate figures and does not report on behalf of individual companies or industry associations.

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