\nbiggest food and drinks company, announced that it will cease using products
\nthat drive the tropical rainforest destruction.<\/p>\n
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This is great news for our environment in what has otherwise <\/p>\n In the midst of it all, Nestle’s recent act is a refreshing <\/p>\n Here is why this matters: 17 percent of global-warming <\/p>\n To address the main driver of deforestation in Brazil—cattle ranching—Greenpeace worked with Nike<\/a>, <\/p>\n In Indonesia, palm oil and pulp plantations are both driving <\/p>\n Palm oil: <\/p>\n Palm oil is used in a huge range of products—from <\/p>\n A Greenpeace report, “Caught Red-Handed: How Nestle’s Use of Palm Oil is Having a <\/p>\n The Paradise Forest region is one of the most important, but <\/p>\n An anatomy of <\/p>\n Long past are the days when all it took were a few <\/p>\n The Nestle announcement is a step toward such significant <\/p>\n Of course, it took quite a bit of work to provide support <\/p>\n Then imagine tens of thousands of Greenpeace’s 2.9 million <\/p>\n On March 17, good-humored protests<\/a> took place across Europe and disrupted the Nestle shareholder <\/p>\n Today, Nestle announced that it will “focus on the Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tools for supporting international action on global warming: American Power Act<\/a><\/p>\n What’s in your food that’s destroying orangutans?<\/a><\/p>\n Raiding rainforest funds in climate legislation will turn cost projections into fantasy<\/a><\/p>\n
\nbeen a bleak few weeks. President Obama continues to dig in (or drill in) and stand firm behind
\nhis plans to increase offshore oil drilling<\/a> despite the BP Deepwater oil disaster<\/a> and continues to work to lift the ban on commercial whaling<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nact of leadership.<\/p>\n
\npollution comes from deforestation. Brazil and Indonesia are among the four
\nmost polluting countries (with China and the U.S.) because cutting trees
\nreleases carbon pollution.<\/p>\n
\nWal-Mart, Timberland<\/a>,
\nand other companies to pressure their suppliers to stop grazing cattle on
\nrecently deforested land.<\/p>\n
\ndeforestation and pushing orangutans to the brink of extinction. After
\nbeing caught red-handed<\/a>, Nestle has committed to identify and exclude
\ncompanies from its supply chain that own or manage “high-risk plantations or
\nfarms linked to deforestation.” This exclusion would apply to companies such as
\nSinar Mas, Indonesia’s most notorious palm-oil and pulp-and-paper supplier, if
\nit fails to meet the criteria set out in the policy. It also has implications
\nfor palm oil traders, such as Cargill, which continue to buy from Sinar Mas.<\/p>\n
\nCooking the planet<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nchocolate, toothpaste, and cosmetics to so-called “climate-friendly” biofuels.
\nGlobal demand for both palm oil and paper is increasing, with companies like
\nSinar Mas expanding into Indonesia’s forests and peatlands. As a result, the
\ncountry has one of the fastest rates of forest destruction on the planet and is
\nthe world’s third-largest greenhouse-gas emitter, after China and the United
\nStates.<\/p>\n
\nDevastating Impact on Rainforest, the Climate and Orangutans<\/a>,”
\nexposed how Nestle’s growing use of palm oil is linked to companies involved in
\nthe destruction of forests and peatlands in the Paradise Forest region of
\nSoutheast Asia.<\/p>\n
\nhighly threatened, tropical forest regions on the planet. With world-renowned
\nwildlife diversity, the rainforest islands of Paradise are home to critically
\nendangered orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and spectacular birds that exist
\nnowhere else on Earth. But with a world-record-breaking deforestation rate<\/a>,
\nthere’s not much time to protect their habitat.<\/p>\n
\na Greenpeace campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ncourageous people in a boat blocking nuclear tests or grenade-tipped harpoons
\nto pass global bans on nuclear testing or commercial whaling. But this does not
\nmean that modern campaigns, with social media, global coordination, public
\nmobilization, and deep research, don’t still depend on individuals taking
\nprincipled, peaceful, courageous action to make change that few thought was
\npossible.<\/p>\n
\nchange—the end of tropical deforestation.<\/p>\n
\nfor the champions in Nestle who were working to make the company a force for
\ngood. The release of the “Caught Red-Handed<\/a>”
\nreport was just the beginning. Add thousands of canvassers on the street in as many
\nas 24 countries telling millions of people about Nestle and deforestation.
\nLayer on the video spoof<\/a> of Kit Kat, a Nestle brand in most countries but the U.S. (where Hershey’s
\ndistributes Kit Kat), which was seen by millions around the globe within just a
\nfew hours of its release.<\/p>\n
\nmembers becoming your Facebook friend, only they’re not really your friends …
\n So many activists flooded Nestlé‘s
\nFacebook page that its overwhelmed moderator began to engage with them in some
\nvery unfriendly ways. The media took note, including The Wall Street Journal, which chronicled the firestorm in the
\narticle “Nestle Takes a Beating on Social-Media Sites<\/a>.”<\/p>\n
\nmeeting<\/a>, calling for an end Nestle’s “Kit Kat-astrophic
\npolicies.”<\/p>\n
\nsystematic identification and exclusion of companies owning or managing high-risk
\nplantations or farms linked to deforestation” and “ensure that its products
\nhave no deforestation footprint.” And
\nfor today, Greenpeace will commend Nestle on its commitments. Now comes the
\nreal work—changing its practices.<\/p>\n
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