Tell Unilever To Stop Buying Palm Oil From Rainforest Destroyers
Greenpeace have pointed out that while Unilever sits at the head of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), THEY continue to buy palm oil from companies who are destroying pristine rainforest. And this is while huge tracts of already deforested land in Indonesia lies idle - companies want the timber profit as well.
The RSPO was formed in 2004 to stop these practices and has so far had absolutely no impact on the conversion rate of rainforest to palm oil plantations. The UN predicts that at the current rate of conversion, 98% of Indonesia’s lowland rainforests will be destroyed by 2022.
Greenpeace have provided us with Unilever’s email addresses so that we can tell them exactly what we think of their behavior. How can they head up an organization created to stop unnecessary rainforest destruction when THEY still purchase their own palm oil from environmental bandits?
Please take action and email the following heads of Unilever. Tell them what YOU think about their actions.
‘patrick.cescau@unilever.com’; ‘kees.vandergraaf@unilever.com’; ‘ralph.kugler@unilever.com’; ‘lettemieke.mulder@unilever.com’; ‘jan-kees.vis@unilever.com’; ‘doveaction@greenpeace.org’
- Posted in : Environment, Pictures, Politics, Uncategorized
- Author :AmandaE
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I wrote a letter to all the unilever people but each and every email could not be delivered ??? what, did these people change their addresses so we can’t complain to them?
Sorry - please remove the apostrophies from the addresses first!
I removed all the apostrophies when I copied the email addresses into the story but they must have automatically been put back in.
Please try to resend the email without apostrophies!!
Amanda
Of course the e-mails could be bounced by a full mailbox.
The Round Table is an industry body who have arranged things so they have to change nothing while pretending they are doing something (well, they are : destroying rainforest, heating up the Earth, killing native tribal people, polluting and eroding the soil…)
K.
Initially I naively thought these Roundtables were trying to change practices to be sustainable but now I think you are right. They are there simply to give the appearance of doing the right thing.
The Roundtable for Responsible Soy has also been labelled as ‘corporate greenwash’ by NGO’s. They warn “agribusiness is responsible for the devastation of our soils, deforestation, contamination of rivers and aquifers, biodiversity loss, and the plunder the natural and cultural heritage which once supported our communities”. They stress that the soya industry is inherently unsustainable and warn that that any certification of ’sustainable soya’ will be nothing other than ‘corporate greenwash’.