The International Palm Oil Sustainability Conference 2020 (IPOSC 2020) is MPOC’s biannual conference that highlights the sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Malaysian palm oil industry to all stakeholders. This year, the 6th IPOSC 2020 will be hosted by MPOC on a virtual platform, comprising two modules, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting us globally.
Virtual IPOSC 2020’s Module 2 will feature presentations from experts from the agriculture, research and palm oil sectors who will share their views on the recent developments, challenges and possible solutions on renewable energy, climate change and food security, as well as how the recent COVID-19 has impacted these efforts. The topics include:
Land Use Change and Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) risk across vegetable oil crops
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To set the world on climate-compatible pathway, it is critical to speed up the energy transformation by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. Bioenergy...
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Mr. Toshimasa Masuyama
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Innovation and Technology Centre, Germany
The palm oil industry has registered significant advances since the 1970s when the commodity began to make an impression in the global oils and fats markets....
The emergence of Blockchain technology could have a transformative impact on the palm oil industry by creating an end-to-end traceable and verifiable supply...
The effect of environmental disasters and their impact on social life is not a new phenomenon. However, the discovery of interconnectedness of the whole...
Malaysia is one of the 12 megadiverse countries which holds at least 70% of the world's known species. Biodiversity provides the essential ecological services...
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Dr. Khairul Naim Adham
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Malaysia
Malaysia’s palm oil (PO) complex is a great success story. However, PO’s very success makes it controversial. Sustaining it is both an environmental and a...