Reports from the Technical Panels of the 2nd Greenhouse Gas Working Group of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
In this report, we present seven papers that address emissions from land-use change due to the expansion of the palm oil sector and from the cultivation of oil palm plantations on peat soils in Southeast Asia. The first five papers are the final reports produced by the Science Panel and have been organized to reflect the methodological approach used to estimate the historical emissions of CO2, the most significant GHG linked to land-use change and generate the information resources required to project potential emissions into the future. The sixth and seventh studies papers are literature reviews commissioned by the Peat Land Working Group, which describe the environmental and social impacts of oil palm plantations operating on peat soils and an overview of the various methodologies available for monitoring GHG emissions from oil palm plantations.
