Report comment

From climate change aspect palm oil production is very damaging to the environment at present releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere yearly. This is more than the carbon dioxide released from the coal fired power plants in these countries.

The farmers, planters, agriculturists and small holders work hard to bring palm oil on the table, however, in contrast the palm oil mills in the supply chain cause all the havoc. The solution to climate change damage lies at the palm oil mills. The mills should stop considering the 74% biomass by-product remaining after extracting the palm oil and palm kernels in the palm oil production process at the mill as waste material. It contain massive amount of clean energy! This clean energy when utilised efficiently and productively can bring down the carbon footprint of palm oil to significant low levels.

Technologies and means are readily available to harness this energy to displace fossil fuel elsewhere outside the mill thereby mitigating the climate change damage by reducing the carbon footprint. The sad part is that the will to adopt is wanting in the palm oil milling industry. The Principles and Criteria of RSPO regarding optimising Renewable Energy at the palm oil mill is largely ignored at present.

Rightfully, it's the palm oil mill that attention should be focus on.

The increased production of palm oil in recent years necessitates large quantities of it being converted to biodiesel to absorb the supply. In this scenario, where the biodiesel is meant to displace petroleum diesel to reduce carbon emissions, the carbon footprint of palm oil comes into stronger focus.

Climate change is ‘an immediate and growing threat.’
No stone should be left unturned to mitigate GHG and climate change.

There is a lot more information on our website: http://www.rank.com.my/energywise/