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Supported by hundreds of millions of euros in national subsidies, the Netherlands rapidly became the leading importer of palm oil in Europe, taking in 1.7 million tons last year, a figure that has been nearly doubling annually. The Dutch green energy giant Essent alone bought 200,000 tons , before it agreed to suspend new purchase until a better system for certifying sustainably grown palm oil could be developed. The company now has replaced the palm oil it used with conventional sources of energy and local biofuels .
But already the buoyant demand has created damage far away. "When you drastically increase the demand for agriculture products, that puts new pressure on the land and can have uniteded consequences and hidden casts, " Jensen, of the European Enviroment Agency, said.
Friends of the Earth estimates that 87 percent of the deforestation in Malaysia from 1985 to 2000 was caused by new palm oil plantations. In Indonesia, the amount of land devoted to palm oil has increased 118 percent in the past eight years.
Oil needed by poor people for food was becoming too expensive for them. "We have a problem satisfying the Netherlands ' energy needs with someone else's food resources," said Creyghton of Friends of the Earth.
Such concerns were causing intense misgiving about palm oil already when ,in December, scientists from Wetlands International released their bombshell calculations about the global emissions that palm farming on peatland cause.
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