Blake Lapthorn's Climate Change team welcomed Ilan Kruglianskas, Project Manager, Proforest, as its fourth speaker in the fifth series of green breakfasts held in Oxford on 17 November 2010.

1. Sugarcane and soya in your engine?
Helping fuel importers to source
sustainably-produced biofuels
Green Breakfast 17/11/10

2. A forest
somewhere
in the world
Proforest
UK based organization founded in 2000
Supporting organizations to use natural resources
responsibly
• Offices in Oxford (UK) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
• Focus on forestry and agricultural commodities
• Policy development, capacity building and training, supply
chain management, support to producers and buyers and
support to stakeholders processes

3. Policy development
• Private sector
• Internal company policies
• Public sector
• Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
• RFA Expert Advisory Group
• Development of guidance for field assessments
• EU Commission
• Regular liaison with DG TREN as part of work with
private sector

4. Capacity building and training
• ProForest summer training course
• Up-to-date short courses (Agriculture, Forestry, REDD, HCV)
• Civil society, private sector, government, banks
• Covers certification, policy development and implementation
• Stepwise-support programme
• Work with palm oil and sugarcane producers to meet Sustainability
Requirements (RSPO, RTFO)
• South America, S.E. Asia, W. Africa
• Approved auditor training for RSPO
• Support to stakeholders process, Standard settings
• RSPO
• RTRS
• BSI

5. Supply chain management
• Private companies
• Supply chain mapping
• Buying rules
• Support for suppliers to meet requirements
• Supplier assessment
• Chain of custody
• Production (farm/plantation)
• Certification schemes
• Technical guidance on Chain of Custody verification
options
• Facilitation of working groups

6. Support to Producers and buyers:
What are we working with?
What these things have in common?

7. Main Concerns in Agriculture
• Food safety concerns
• e.g. pesticide residues
• Impacts on local communities and workers
• Fair wages
• Pesticide use
• Labour conditions (slavery, H&S etc)
• Fair prices for small producers (e.g. coffee)
• Genetically modified organisms
More recently:
• Environmental impacts of agricultural
expansion
• Carbon (climate change)

9. Palm Oil

10. Sugarcane
“Amnesty said that in March 2007, 288
workers were rescued from forced
labor at six cane plantations…”

11. Tackling Climate Change

12. EU and Carbon
• EU Regulations
• Renewable Energy Directive
• adopted in December 2008
• GHG reduction
• Promote sustainable energy
• UK – Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation
• suppliers of fossil fuels to ensure that a specified
percentage of the road fuels they supply in the UK is
made up of renewable fuels sustainably sourced
• Uses a RTFO Meta-standard and accept others
standards (e.g. RTRS)
• RFA Quarterly Report April 15th 2010
• Biodiesel - 272.91 million litters
• Bioethanol – 153.5 million litters
http://www.renewablefuelsagency.gov.uk

13. Biofuels

14. RTFO
• Suppliers have to submit reports on carbon and
sustainability
• Biodiesel and Bioethanol produced from soy and
sugarcane does not come from converted areas
• Meet the RTFO sustainability meta-standard
requirements or RTRS
• Carbon conservation
• Biodiversity
• Soil conservation
• Sustainable water use
• Air quality
• Workers rights and working relationships
• Land rights and community relations

15. Working with main UK fuel suppliers
• Finding ways to adjust and implementing internal
polices to get practical solutions (comply with RTFO)
• Understanding the supply chain
• Finding evidence of where the product has gone
through
• Working with producers toward sustainability

16. Commodity Supply Chains

17. Working with producers
•Soya in Argentina for biodiesel
•RTRS (Round Table on Responsible Soy)
•Sugarcane in Brazil for bioethanol
•RTFO

18. Soya in Argentina
• Location: Argentina’s “Wet Pampa”
• Large scale producers
• GAP Assessments and Action Plans
• Scope of the work
• Presentation of European context (RTRS, RTFO and
RED requirements)
• Key issues for compliance of RTRS P&Cs requirements
• Analysis of documents and maps
• Field visits
• Agreement for necessary actions

19. Findings in soya produced in
Argentina
• Positive Aspects:
• Legal Compliance and Good Business Practice
• Good management system for documenting land
ownership, regulations updates and monitoring
• Responsible Labor Conditions
• No child or forced labor, discrimination and harassment
• Workers adequately informed and trained
• Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
• Remuneration at least equal to national legislation
• Environmental Responsibility
• Efforts to reduce emissions of GHGs
• Good Agricultural Practices

20. Findings in soya produced in
Argentina
• Areas for improvement
• Environmental responsibility
Criterion 4.2 Pollution is minimized and production
waste is managed responsibly
• Subcontractors are responsible for production and
management: residues generated by subcontractor
were discharged directly to public litters
Criterion 5.5 All application of agrochemicals is
documented
• No evidences of aerial agrochemical application
warnings to local communities were found

21. Waste management & pollution

22. Sugarcane in Brazil
• Location: Centre South and North East
• Large scale producers
• GAP Assessments and Action Plans
• Scope of the work
• Presentation of European context (RTRS, RTFO and
RED requirements)
• Key issues for compliance of RTRS P&Cs requirements
• Analysis of documents and maps
• Field visits
• Agreement for necessary actions

23. Findings in sugarcane produced in
Brazil
• Positive aspects
• Soil and water management generally good
• No evidence of native vegetation conversion
• Social programmes
• Good examples of labour conditions, labour
relations
• Good examples of plans to phase out burning
of cane

24. Findings in sugarcane produced in
Brazil
• Areas for improvement:
• Law reinforcement in Brazil
• Phasing out burning
• Meeting legal reserves (RL)/ permanent preservation area
quotas (APPs)
• Social issues
• Social implications of mechanisation not addressed in the
Northeast
• Communication and consultation with
communities
• Flora and Fauna Surveys

25. Air pollution from burning

26. Main results
• From the 17 producers organizations we have
worked with in Brazil and Argentina
• 11 producers were able to show compliance with the
necessary standard
• 4 were not audited by certification bodies because they
were not ready
• 2 producers are still negotiating
• Many lessons learned
• How to guarantee verifiable information to Government
• How to implement changes in the field

27. Thank you!
ILAN KRUGLIANSKAS
ilan@proforest.net