RSPO

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RSPO — the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil — is the leading multi-stakeholder certification standard for sustainable palm-oil production. Founded in 2004, RSPO certifies palm-oil mills and supply chains against criteria covering no-deforestation, no-peatland-development, no-exploitation (NDPE), legal compliance, and worker welfare. It is not a carbon crediting standard per se but is highly relevant to Indonesian carbon projects in two ways.

First, palm-oil plantations adjacent to or overlapping carbon project areas can either reinforce or undermine the project's reversal-risk profile depending on their RSPO status. Second, RSPO-certified mills with biogas methane-capture systems (POME) often layer carbon crediting (typically AMS-III.H. or VCS analogues) on top of their RSPO certification to monetise the methane reductions. KarbonLens flags RSPO-context where relevant in project descriptions but does not yet expose RSPO data as a first-class field.

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Related terms

• POME
• AMS-III.H
• KLHK