Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Mongabay
Sep 24, 2021, 10:05 am144 pts
JAKARTA — Consumer goods behemoths such as Unilever, PepsiCo and Nestlé that buy palm oil from Indonesia may be exposed to the environmental and social fallout from a seemingly unrelated industry there: coal mining. That’s because of the substantial overlap between the mining and palm oil industries, with…

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