ABC’s in-country counsel is charged with the responsibility to review all transactions for legal compliance.  In addition, the Company complies with all of the U.S. and host country treaty obligations including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Before beginning to plant, ABC held a widely-advertised Stakeholders Conference to explain our goals and objectives and the method of plantation operations.  The meeting was monitored by an outside consulting firm.  Because of the scope of the project, ABC has collaboratively prepared an environmental and social impact assessment and an impact mitigation plan.   To assure transparency and stakeholder representation, the subsidiary management and board consists only of host country nationals.    One of the board members is the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Datus  Alimaong representing the indigenous peoples.

ABC strives to reduce or mitigate GHG emissions.  Jatropha is planted once and grows 40+ years sequestering carbon.   All planting and harvesting activities are labor intensive.  Goats provide weed control.   Vehicles and off-road equipment are being designed to operate on biofuels.  Crushing / refining is processed on each plantation.   The cake is processed through a digester to extract the methane.   The refined oils and biofuels are sold in the host country