oil-palm

基本解释

Sime Darby, the oil-palm company that owns the land, has been forced to drop its plans.
Sime Darby，擁有上述地塊的油棕櫚公司，也被勒令擱置此計劃。
Indonesia’s National Council on Climate Change puts the opportunity cost of forgoing an oil-palm plantation at $30 a tonne.
如印度尼西亞全國氣候變化委員會認爲，放棄建設油棕櫚樹種植園的機會成本是30美元/噸。
These are just the biggest deals. Numerous smaller ones are being finalised every week in industries from mining to oil-palm plantations.
這還僅是最大的幾筆交易，衆多小筆交易每周都在被敲定，涵蓋從採鑛業到棕櫚種植園。

Before it went into effect some economists predicted the trade agreement would increase sales of Indonesian commodities such as palm oil,copper,and rubber, but would hurt low-end manufacturers.

Last year a Dutch study found that draining Indonesian swamps to make way for oil-palm plantations resulted in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for each tonne of palm oil produced, by speeding up the decomposition of the peaty soil.
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And the price of one of its main products--palm oil, widely used for cooking in tropical Africa--also went haywire.
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Another problem is that the RSPO has struggled to create any effective action on setting standards for greenhouse-gas emissions associated with palm-oil plantations.
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a tropical African palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, the fruits of which yield palm oil