Few ingredients are as widespread or as notorious as palm oil. But although this crop is a major driver of deforestation, this oil might just be our most sustainable option. So what can we do to make palm oil production more sustainable?

Reporter: Adam Levy
Camera: Adam Levy
Video Editor: Adam Levy & Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer & Joanna Gottschalk

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More:

How palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests, peatlands: https://sustainabilitycommunity.sprin...

Eight things to know about palm oil: https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-thin...

Palm oil and global warming: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/...

Global Forest Watch: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

Palm oil in cosmetics:
https://www.treehugger.com/palm-oil-c...

Special thanks for the background interviews:
Rory Padfield, University of Leeds
Patricio Grassini, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Inke Van Der Sluijs, Roundtable for Sustainable Palmoil
Erik Meijaard, Borneo Futures
Fitrian Ardiansyah, The Sustainable Trade Initiative
Jocelyn Zuckerman, Reporter and author
Adam Tomassi-Russell, PhD Oxford, for chemistry consultation

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Why palm oil is popular
03:17 The problems with palm oil
04:42 Palm oil's incredible production
06:24 Certification?
07:09 Watch from the skies
08:12 Palm oil from the lab
08:53 Conclusion