Cargill participates in ninth annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

 

Cargill this week is attending and presenting at the ninth annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Roundtable Meeting, or RT9. Cargill supports the RSPO and the efforts of participants to establish and promote sustainable palm production. In July, Cargill annnouced that the palm oil products it supplies to its customers in Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will be certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and/or originated from smallholder growers by 2015 (this excludes palm kernel oil products). This commitment will be extended across all Cargill’s oil and trading businesses to cover 100-percent of its palm oil products and all customers worldwide – including China and India – by 2020.