“Malaysia: Palmoljeförbud can give trade war”
“Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, accusing the EU policy to phase out the use of palm oil for”
“the EUROPEAN commission has recently ruled that the cultivation of palm oil results in massive deforestation and the use of transport fuels should be phased out by the year 2030.”
“in Malaysia, the world’s second largest producer of palm oil after Indonesia, is dependent on palmoljeindustrin which has a turnover of billions of dollars and create thousands of jobs.”
“Malaysia has previously threatened to take the EU’s phasing out of palm oil into biofuel on to the world trade organisation, the WTO.”
“Palm oil is present in everything from chocolate to lipstick and fuels.”