Several companies agreed to comply with a standard known as sustainable palm oil : Roundtable on sustainable palm oil (RSPO). To become officially sustainable, a company guarantee not to clear any primary forest, to have transparent supply chains, to check carbon emission, to limit planting on peatlans, to treat workers farily and to create wildlife zones. Some NGO are saying that the rules are not strict enough along with the sanction; but in UK in 2016 75% of the total palm oil imports were sustainable.

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