Rainforest Destruction:
Understanding the Cross Cutting Issues InvolvedCompanies Making a Difference
Here are some great companies that are actively campaigning to prevent rainforest destruction and/or increase awareness about the issue:
The Body Shop: http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/values-campaigns/protect-planet.aspx?
As a large user of palm oil (rainforests are destroyed during its cultivation process), Unilever has since realized the damaging effects it is causing on our rainforests. During the cultivation process, millions of hectares of rainforests are destroyed. Teaming with other leading companies like L’Oreal and Colgate, the organization is supporting a moratorium on deforestation as a crucial measure to tackle climate change. The company’s CEO has also made a commitment to the rigorous measuring and management of Unilever’s climate change impacts across the whole value chain. This would involve looking beyond the greenhouse gases coming from the factories and lorry fleets and including the impact from both the sourcing of raw materials and from to consumer use. The company has also been working to develop sustainable agronomic practices for oil palm since the early 1990s. In 2004 they co-founded, with WWF, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. In May 2008 they announced that by 2015 all of our palm oil would be sustainably sourced and that we would support Greenpeace’s call for a moratorium on any further deforestation associated with the Palm Oil industry.
For more information on Unilever and this moratorium, click here.
