Palm oil is recognised as the world’s most versatile vegetable oil. As well as a widely used cooking oil, it’s found in over half of all supermarket products, from soap and toothpaste to chocolate and noodles. 

Deforestation has reached alarming levels. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates that 420 million hectares of forest – about 10% of the world’s remaining forests, equalling an area larger than the European Union – have been lost worldwide between 1990 and 2020