Palm oil, agrofuels, France. Total company works for deforestation in La Mede
Description
The production of agrofuels at La Mede is based on imports of palm oil from Indonesia. Contrary to what Total claims, the palm oil used for the La Mede bio-refinery is far from being guaranteed to be 100 pc sustainable. Oil imported to produce agrofuels is contaminated with oils that are not certified and whose provenance is sometimes illegal, or mostly unknown. The mills listed by Total, which have been investigated, partly source oil palm fruits from national parks or from cooperatives condemned for illegal deforestation. In addition, as the documents related to the site's supply chain show, it is most of the oil used at La Mede that is without guarantee and therefore potentially associated with deforestation, in a country, Indonesia, where the intensive cultivation of oil palm generates many climatic, environmental and social risks
Abstract (French)
La production d'agrocarburants a La Mede est basee sur des importations d'huile de palme indonesienne. Contrairement a ce que pretend Total, l'huile de palme utilisee pour la bioraffinerie de La Mede est tres loin d'etre garantie 100 pc durable. L'huile importee pour produire des agrocarburants est contaminee par des huiles qui ne sont pas certifiees et dont la provenance est parfois illegale, voire la plupart du temps inconnue. Les moulins listes par Total, sur lesquels nous avons enquete, s'approvisionnent en partie en fruits de palmiers a huile issus de parcs nationaux ou provenant de cooperatives condamnees pour deforestation illegale. De plus, si l'on en croit les documents relatifs a la chaine d'approvisionnement du site, c'est la majeure partie de l'huile utilisee a La Mede qui se trouverait sans garantie et donc potentiellement associee a de la deforestation, dans un pays, l'Indonesie, ou la culture intensive du palmier a huile engendre de nombreux risques climatiques, environnementaux et sociaux
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Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Huile de palme, agrocarburants, France. Total carbure a la deforestation a La Mede
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 32 p.
- Report number
- INIS-FR--22-0035
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 53012201
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S09: BIOMASS FUELS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; BIOMASS CONVERSION PLANTS; BIOMASS PLANTATIONS; CERTIFICATION; CLIMATIC CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FRANCE; FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS; IMPORTS; INDONESIA; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LEGAL ASPECTS; OIL PALMS; PALM OIL; SOCIAL IMPACT
- Descriptors DEC
- ALTERNATIVE FUELS; ASIA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; FUELS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; ISLANDS; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OILS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; TRADE; TREES; VEGETABLE OILS; WESTERN EUROPE
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- Notes
- 25 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses