August 20, 2015
Poverty, Palm Oil and Protecting the Forests
I’m just back from Gabon and Liberia – first time I’ve ever been in these countries. I was there to understand better what the idea of ‘sustainable palm oil’ might mean in that…
July 24, 2015
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of Today’s Food Security Debate
On David Attenborough’s 89th birthday this May, he somehow found himself in conversation with Barack Obama. And a rather strange conversation it was too, with the President of the…
June 25, 2015
Palm Oil and Deforestation: Moving Things On
Last week, after nearly a year’s work, the High Carbon Stock Steering Committee (of which I’m the Co-Chair) issued its Draft Synthesis Report for consultation. At one level, our…