Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation Wild Asia’s Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Sustainability from a non- accountant’s perspective: Part II Sustainability in Oil Palm By Shafinaz Suhaimi Sustainability Advisor, Wild Asia

2 About WA

3 About Wild Asia  Conservation-based social enterprise based in Malaysia  Core Programme Areas:-  Sustainable Agriculture Initiative  Responsible Tourism Initiative  Environmental Education  Plant-a-Tree campaign

Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation Current issues in the market

5 What’s out in the open Forest loss & OP expansion Increased wild animal trade

6 What’s out in the open “Peat & climate change”

7 What’s out in the open “Fires & land clearing”

8 What’s out in the open “Indigenous peoples Rights”

9 What’s out in the open “Chemical use & worker safety”

Wild Asia: Building Partnerships for Conservation Background to RSPO Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil

11 What is RSPO?  A Swiss-registered association formalised in 2003  Secretariat in Malaysia & branch in Indonesia  Increasingly referenced by other global initiatives (eg: biofuels)  Entire supply chain from producers to buyers.  Founding members inc. MPOA, Golden Hope, Unilever, Sainsbury, Migros  Social & Environmental NGOs

12 RSPO: A point of reference  Becoming a reference for sustainability in trade & finance.  Credit requirements for loans reference RSPO; banks developing compliance checks around RSPO P&C.  Sustainability criteria for trade in Biofuels (EU-Cramer Commission; Gold Label Standards for CDM).

Our approach Direct engagementBottom-upGuide

Looking at the bigger picture where businesses operate, i.e. HCV Landscape Conservation Assessments

Looking at the people and communities where businesses operate Social Impact Assessments

Building people to support your policies Training & Capacity Building

17 Baseline Assessments Supply Chain Assurance Biodiversity Assessments Social Impact Assessments Policy Development Training / Capacity Building In partnership with…

Worked with the largest & the unlikeliest With multi-national conglomerate and largest OP company, Sime Darby & social NGO Tenaganita: Bottom-up consultative rights- based approach to policy development and training

With the small and motivated Long term advisory support: Plantations and mill operations Social responsibility Environment / biodiversity protection Effective communication and reporting to stakeholders.

20 Conclusion

21 Challenges “Accounting for social & environmental costs?” Making sustainability real on the ground.

22 Thank You Upper Penthouse, Wisma RKT, No 2 Jalan Raja Abdullah, Kuala Lumpur