Union of Concerned Scientists+Palm Oil Total Score+methodology
Scoring was based on commitments from official company sources, which were publically available as of January 16, 2015. These included pages on each company’s website, press releases, annual sustainability and other corporate reports, company policy documents, and companies’ most recent Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP) to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
One or more representatives from each company were contacted to let them know they would be appearing in our scorecard. Although we did our own independent research to uncover all relevant materials from a company’s website and reporting to the RSPO, this was done to allow companies the opportunity to weigh in in the unlikely event that an important document was overlooked.
This metric represent the sum of the scores obtained by companies in the following indicators:
(Source: UCS Palmoil Scorecard Methodology)