Such requirements would hit the palm oil sector disproportionately hard, robbing many developing countries of a golden opportunity to pull millions of people out of poverty, according to Dato’ Azhar Abdul Hamid, who runs the agribusiness arm of Malaysia’s largest conglomerate, Sime Darby Berhad.
In 2008 the EU committed itself to sourcing 10% of its transport fuel from renewable sources by 2020, with the vast majority likely to come from biofuels.
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