UK Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative
Efeca facilitates the UK Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative (SPOI), including the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, under the Partnerships for Forests programme.
The Roundtable brings together diverse representation from UK industry in a pre-competitive space to work collectively towards a goal of sustainable, resilient supplies of palm oil to the UK market. With Efeca acting as its secretariat, the Roundtable consists of its members, who are all procurers of palm oil, and supporting partners. Members include major food and non-food trade associations, refiners, manufacturers, wholesalers, contract caterers and retailers.
Through its work with the Roundtable, Efeca provides technical support to both private and public sector actors, facilitates a Communications Working Group that aims to improve the narrative around sustainable palm oil, and publishes an Annual Progress Report (APR) on the UK’s sourcing of sustainable palm oil. The most recent APR shows that, in 2019, 70% of all palm and palm kernel oil imported into the UK could be reported as certified sustainable – an increase from only 16% of a comparable volume in 2010.
Also under the remit of the UKSPOI, Efeca is undertaking an outreach and engagement programme. To stimulate a shift in global market demand Efeca is working closely with other national initiatives across Europe, as well as global producer and consumer platforms, for example in China and India. Outreach from the UKSPOI is also carried out locally, for example with the world’s first sustainable palm oil city project in Chester.
Access all of the Annual Progress Reports, briefings and webinars published and hosted by Efeca for the UK Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative via the drop down list. For more information on our Palm Oil Communications Working Group, please go here.
