As encouraging as the mission of the Singapore Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil may be - to “[raise] awareness of the link between haze and unsustainable palm oil, and [to share] information on how to source sustainably” (TODAY, Jun. 28) - the commitment to certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) should go beyond advocacy, with more concrete indicators and targets to respectively show how existing members of the corporate alliance have made progress, and how prospective members should make the switch to CSPO. Furthermore to broaden the reach of the proposed advocacy, strategies could be designed and shared among the companies, to also educate Singaporean consumers. Continue reading →