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“Whether we like it or not it is very largely our industry which is providing the economic incentives for individuals and companies to chop down trees… Between us, we spend billions of dollars buying these commodities. We can make a difference if we buy them differently and better.” – A senior Unilever executive in a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 4, 2011
Sinar Mas Group, the notorious international palm oil pariah, recently made a remarkable announcement: The company’s subsidiary, Golden Agri Resouces (GAR), intends to implement a forest conservation policy. Among other things, GAR’s Forest Conservation Policy commits it to a goal of “no new development” on peat lands, High Conservation Value Forest areas or High Carbon [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 21, 2010
Did you see The New York Times Op-Ed on Saturday titled “The World Bank’s Palm Oil Mistake“? I sure did. The author, Thompson Ayodele, provided a narrow perspective on the World Bank’s recent decision to continue it’s freeze on new lending to palm oil projects around the world until it’s framework and strategy is clarified. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 2, 2010
In response to Cargill’s recent announcement stating that they would ignore their promise to take action on widely known rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas, RAN sent out a press release calling Cargill out on failing to do the right thing. Both Reuters and Mongabay picked up the story. PT SMART Audit in hand, Cargill ignores promise [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 20, 2010
Chevron is up for a huge award this month and we need your votes (VOTE HERE) to help them win this much-deserved award. Each year ten corporations are (dis)honored by being named as finalists in the “Corporate Hall of Shame.” This year Corporate Accountability International has deemed Chevron worthy of their final list because of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 19, 2010
For those following the recent developments of palm oil in the news, you know that this hot commodity is becoming increasingly controversial and companies are starting to either push to get the tropical oil out of their supply chain altogether or to adopt a strong palm policy to ensure they are not contributing to rainforest [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 6, 2010
The growing international focus on companies that produce, trade, or use palm oil is quickly separating out the market leaders, like Unilever and Nestle, from companies that are taking an active role in adopting policies to safeguard their climate footprint, from the rainforest destroyers (i.e. Cargill and General Mills).
Continue reading...Thursday, May 20, 2010
This week the leading consumer food company Nestle announced new policies to eliminate palm oil connected with the increasingly dire status of broad swaths of the world’s rainforests. The expansion of palm oil plantations is an leading driver of deforestation in Indonesia, home to rainforests of global importance. In their statements this week, Nestle has [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 22, 2010
Last week Nestle joined the ranks of other major food conglomerates to cancel their palm oil contracts from Sinar Mas, Indonesia’s largest palm oil and wood pulp producer and notorious rainforest destroyer. Responding to the movements against Sinar Mas, Cargill also made an announcement on Sinar Mas last week; unfortunately Cargill chose to delay action [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has become the latest major multinational to cancel their palm oil contract with Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates and a leading producer of both palm oil and wood pulp for paper and packaging products. A string of reports have shown that Sinar Mas is actively [...]
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