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，拥有上述地块的油棕榈公司，也被勒令搁置此计划。
Indonesia’s National Council on Climate Change puts the opportunity cost of forgoing an oil-palm plantation at $30 a tonne.
如印度尼西亚全国气候变化委员会认为，放弃建设油棕榈树种植园的机会成本是30美元/吨。
These are just the biggest deals. Numerous smaller ones are being finalised every week in industries from mining to oil-palm plantations.
这还仅是最大的几笔交易，众多小笔交易每周都在被敲定，涵盖从采矿业到棕榈种植园。

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