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Sustainability Communications & Advocacy.

We bring the people who write the regulations and report the news to Malaysia’s oil palm estates so they can see it for themselves. Then we take the evidence into the rooms where policy is made.

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Familiarisation Programmes
The Work

Show, don't just tell.

When a journalist writes about Malaysia’s oil palm estates without ever visiting a Malaysia’s oil palm estates, the story writes itself from Brussels or Washington, D.C. When a regulator drafts regulations without seeing how the industry actually works, the regulations land badly. We fix both.

This initiative joins two things that belong together. Sustainability communications, because arguments do not move people unless they come with a face and a place. And policy advocacy, because the people who sit in EU Commission offices and FACT Dialogue plenaries need the evidence in hand before the next round of regulations is written.

Malaysia's framework is credible and robust.
EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall · September 2025

Familiarisation Programmes

We bring the people whose views shape the narrative to the place where the truth lives. No presentation does what a field visit does.

Media

Journalist Familiarisation Programme

International journalist from wire services, trade press, and mainstream media visit Malaysian estates, mills, refineries, and smallholder cooperatives. They meet workers, see the MSPO audit trail, and leave with a story grounded in what they saw.

Annual
Global Correspondents
UK Policy

UK Stakeholder Visits

UK policymakers, NGOs, and trade bodies are brought to Malaysia for direct engagement with Malaysian palm oil industry members. UK consumer sentiment and retail policy carry outsized weight across global supply chains. We meet that audience on our ground, not theirs.

UK
Policy + Retail
EU Policy

EU Stakeholder Visits

European regulators, technical experts, and importers visit Malaysian estates and industry stakeholders for direct engagement on the ground. The goal: put the people who write EUDR and deforestation regulation in front of the Malaysian system that already complies.

EU
EUDR-aligned

Sustainability Storytelling

We tell the sustainability story the way it should be told: through the people who live it.

Smallholder Stories

Wild Asia Partnership

Long-form articles, short videos, and video snippets on MSPO-certified smallholders across Malaysia. Winner of the 2025 RSPO Excellence Award for "Communicating for Good". Real people, real plantations, real certification.

RSPO 2025
Winner of the 2025 RSPO Excellence Award: Communicating for Good
Carbon Markets

Carbon Credit Study

Research collaboration with Swinburne University and Sunway University on the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) potential for Malaysian palm oil. Opens a new revenue and sustainability narrative.

2 Universities
Joint Research
MSPO Narrative

Mandatory Certification Story

“Malaysia made MSPO certification mandatory from 2020 onwards”. Most palm-producing countries are still voluntary. We tell the story of what that means for traceability, legality, and compliance.

2020
Mandatory Since

Policy-Level Advocacy

We hold the line in the rooms where the regulations get written.

EU Intelligence

EU Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy

Tracks EUDR, CSDDD and the next wave of EU regulations affecting Malaysian palm oil. Feeds directly into MPOC’s European Commission engagement and wider European advocacy work.

G2G Platform

FACT Dialogue

Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade. The key government-to-government platform on deforestation-free supply chains. Malaysia holds the Co-Chair seat for 2025-2026. MPOC supports the Malaysian delegation and the underlying technical work.

2025-26
Malaysia Co-Chair
EU Engagement

Commissioner-Level Engagement

Direct engagement with EU Commissioners and Directorate-General teams. September 2025: Commissioner Jessika Roswall publicly described Malaysia's framework as "credible and robust." The kind of line that only comes from sustained policy-level work.

Ongoing
Brussels

Communications open the door. Advocacy keeps it open.

This is how Malaysian palm oil holds its position on the world stage.

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