Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace has suspended its campaign against palm oil supplier IOI Group after the Malaysian firm announced a commitment to address deforestation and exploitation in its supply chain.
The announcement comes one year after IOI Group was suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil— a non-profit organization uniting stakeholders from all sectors of the palm oil industry — for clearing peatlands in Kalimantan, Indonesia. A complaint from nongovernmental organization AidEnvironment led to the suspension, and hundreds of Greenpeace supporters took part in a campaign protesting IOI’s practices, which included a blockade of the company’s refinery in Rotterdam and a protest at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.