Wildlife Defenders Action Plan (and 5/22/16 Trade News Report)
Empty Promises and Missed Opportunities: An Assessment of the Environmental Chapter
of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by Prof. Chris Wold
Publications by Ben Beachy and the Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program
TPP Text Analysis: Environment Chapter Fails to Protect the Environment
A Dirty Deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Our Climate
CLIMATE ROADBLOCKS: Looming Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Articles with Additional Information
What's Wrong with Palm Oil? (Overivew)
Palm Oil: What's the Issue? (Say No to Palm Oil)
Malaysian Palm Oil and TPP
TPP to boost M'sia's rubber, palm oil products exports to US, Canada, Mexico, Peru (The Edge Markets, 3/19/16)
Trans-Pacific Partnership’s food issues: rice, sugar, Malaysian palm-oil, trans fats (Food Politics, 7/28/15)
TPP broadens market scope in US, say palm oil experts (The Edge Markets, 3/29/16)
Sharks, Tigers, and Elephants: New Analysis Reveals TPP Threats to Endangered Species (Sierra Club, 12/7/15)
Four Reasons Not to Trust the TPP to Save Endangered Animals (Huffington Post, 9/23/15)
Trade or Human Rights? Integrity of State Department Trafficking Report Still an Open Question (AFL-CIO Now, 6/30/16)
Malaysian Palm Oil and Labor Rights
Palm-Oil Migrant Workers Tell of Abuses on Malaysian Plantations (Wall Street Journal, 7/26/15)
Forced, child and trafficked labour in the PALM OIL industry (World Vision Action)
Empty Assurances: The human cost of palm oil (International Labor Rights Fund, 11/14/13)
Labor Exploitation and Human Rights Abuses within the Palm Oil Sector (Rainforest Action Network, 11/17/14)
Palm Oil and Deforestation
Palm Oil and Tropical Deforestation (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Global Warming: Stop Deforestation: Palm Oil (Union of Concerned Scientists
Infographic: Palm Oil and Tropical Deforestation (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Palm Oil and Climate Change
Factsheet: Palm Oil and Global Warming (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Palm oil: A climate change culprit (NASA Global Climate Change, 1/7/15)
How Palm Oil in Everything From Food to Fuel Is Killing Orangutans and Exacerbating Climate Change (Alternet, 11/18/13)
Palm Oil and Indigenous Rights
Logging, Palm Oil and Human Rights in Borneo: Malaysian Government Pushes Ahead By Ousting Indigenous Leaders (Treehugger, 9/10/08
Displaced Indigenous Malaysians Face Uncertain Future (Our World, 4/5/11)
Palm Oil and Wildlife
Endangered species threatened by unsustainable palm oil production (World Wildlife Fund)
THE EFFECTS OF PALM OIL: HOW DOES PALM OIL HARM ORANGUTANS AND OTHER WILDLIFE? (Orangutan Foundation International)
Peruvian Palm Oil Trade
Palm oil firms in Peru plan to clear 23,000 hectares of primary forest (The Guardian, 3/15/15)
RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development (Mongabay, 3/5/16)