Mighty Calls on RSPO to Hold Emergency Session on Fires

When Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) members gather in Jakarta next week for the annual roundtable, the haze outside the venue will tell the story the agenda omits. We wrote the RSPO to ask them to add an emergency session on the fires in Indonesia to the official RSPO meeting agenda and invite civil society and affected communities to participate. We also asked that the Board of Governors put fires on its agenda during its November 5 meeting.

Indonesians have made their demands clear. The human toll is far from abstract.

Despite the magnitude of the issue and its human and environmental consequences, the RT2026 program for November 3 and 4 includes no session on fires, haze, or peat.

Read the letter below.