Tuesday 9.30pm SBS ONE
Wednesday 2.00pm SBS ONE (rpt)
Friday 8.30pm SBS TWO (rpt)

Palm Oil – Green Gold?

Ginny Stein travels to Borneo, where forests are being cut down to make way for a new sustainable biofuel made from palm oil.

Back in March this year when John Howard and Malcolm Turnbull announced that Australia would spend the best part of $200 million over the next five years to help curb deforestation in Indonesia, there was loud applause.

It was an apparently bold initiative that according to PM would have more impact on climate change than signing up to the Kyoto protocol.

On air: 11th July 2007