Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG)
General
Name of initiative | Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) |
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LPAA initiative | No |
NAZCA Initiative | No |
Website address | http://www.poig.org/ |
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Starting year | 2013 |
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Secretariat | POIG Secretariat: info@poig.org
The POIG Secretariat is represented and coordinated by Helikonia, an advisor on strategic sustainability services based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and with staff in London, UK and Singapore. |
Organisational structure | POIG is an initiative developed jointly by private-sector representatives and non-governmental organisations, based around a set of formal requirements known as the ‘POIG Charter’. POIG is guided by the Organising Committee (OC), a decision-making body comprising of eight members, including six of the seven founding members of the initiative. The members of the OC currently include: Agropalma, DAABON, Ferrero, Forest Peoples Programme, Greenpeace, Musim Mas Group, Rainforest Action Network, and WWF. The Organising Comittee manages membership approval, suspension and expulsion, governance structures, and the overall evolution of the initiative. The Working Groups, which focus on driving specific work streams and topics within POIG, such as audit and verification procedures or communications, are open to all POIG members. |
Geographical coverage | Global, Latin America and The Caribbean, North America, Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe |
Name of lead organisation | No lead organisation. POIG is a multi-stakeholder initiative. |
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Description
Description | The Palm Oil Innovation Group is a multi-stakeholder initiative that strives to achieve the adoption of responsible palm oil production practices by key players in the supply chain through developing and sharing a credible and verifiable benchmark that builds upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and creating and promoting innovations. Founded in 2013, the initiative was developed in partnership with leading NGOs as well as with progressive palm oil producers.
POIG aims to support the RSPO through building on RSPO standards and commitments and by both demonstrating innovation to implement RSPO existing standards as well as with additional critical issues. With a focus on the three thematic areas of environmental responsibility, partnerships with communities including workers’ rights, and corporate and product integrity, POIG members will strengthen their commitments to socially and environmentally responsible palm oil production. |
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Objectives | POIG focuses on leveraging its experience to create innovations in the palm oil industry and acting as an advocate for these innovations. POIG aims to demonstrate that by setting and implementing ambitious standards, the industry can in particular break the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change.
POIG is based around a set of formal requirements known as the ‘POIG Charter’. It is fundamental to the integrity, credibility and continued evolution of POIG that all members support, promote and work towards the implementation and promotion of the POIG Charter and its objectives and purposes. The objectives of the POIG Charter are: 1. to promote and support innovation and improvements in oil palm plantation and extraction mill management and throughout the supply chain on a range of environmental, social, supply chain and governance issues, and seek to have the innovations rolled out across the palm oil industry and reflected in the RSPO standard; 2. create added value for innovative and progressive producers and supply chain partners through increased market recognition and demand for palm oil products from innovative and improved practices; 3. act as a forum for open discussions and sharing of experience with innovations and improvements in: oil palm plantation practices, extraction mill management practices, responsible procurement, and product traceability and verification throughout the supply chain; 4. act as a forum to collectively engage with governments towards achieving recognition and support for innovations, and have them included in regulations and law. |
Activities | POIG was established by a number of NGOs and progressive palm oil growers as a forum for actors along the supply chain to work together and create solutions to major challenges facing the palm oil sector and existing certification systems, including the RSPO. POIG's main activities include:
1. Supporting existing verification/certification frameworks, such as the RSPO, by building on the RSPO standards and commitments. This includes the development, maintenance and sharing of a credible and verifiable benchmark (the POIG Charters and Verification Indicators), which addresses additional critical issues in relation to: no deforestation, no expansion and best management practices on peatlands, and the elimination of labour and human rights violations. POIG’s goal is not to act as a competing certification system to the RSPO, but to advocate for the RSPO and other organisations to integrate the improved practices outlined in the POIG Charters and Verification Indicators into existing standards and verification frameworks. 2. Creating innovations in the palm oil industry and promoting these innovations and those of POIG's members. POIG acts as an innovation space for front-runners within the RSPO’s membership to make improvements in palm oil production practices including, for example, on labour issues facing the industry. POIG is also committed to the exploration and promotion of creative innovations on key issues, such as alternatives to drainage based use of peatlands and mechanisms to strengthen the objectivity and integrity of audits. |
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Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Technical dialogue, Political dialogue |
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Activity of initiative | Knowledge production and innovation, Norms and standard setting, Knowledge dissemination and exchange |
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Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||
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Members | 0 | |||
Companies | 0 | |||
Business organisations | 0 | |||
Research and educational organisations | 0 | |||
Non-governmental organisations | 0 | |||
National states | 0 | |||
Governmental actors | 0 | |||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||
Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||
Other members | 0 | |||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators