Dove please stop using people that destroy our fragile earth, stop cutting down the rainforests for palm oil
Jakarta, Indonesia — Greenpeace today welcomed Unilever’s call for a moratorium on rainforest destruction in Indonesia, stressing that the company’s new position on the issue should push Indonesian authorities to take more aggressive action to reverse deforestation in the country starting with the institution of a moratorium on logging and forest conversion. In a speech delivered in London yesterday, Unilever CEO Patrick Cescau supported Greenpeace’s demand for a complete halt to the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforest and peatlands for palm oil. He also promised that all of Unilever’s palm oil would be sustainable by 2015. However, the environmental group warned that without a halt to deforestation, Unilever’s efforts to source sustainable palm oil would be doomed to fail.
This decision follows a new Greenpeace campaign exposing how Unilever’s suppliers are actively clearing Indonesia’s peatlands and rainforests, anddestroying orang-utan and wildlife habitats in the process. Destruction of Indonesia’s peatland rainforests contributes 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
“Unilever's suppliers such as Sinar Mas, ADM-Kuok-Wilmar and IOI must heed this strong signal from probably the world's largest corporate consumer of palm oil and stop destroying rainforests, peatlands and the climate for palm oil expansion. The writing is on the wall - the pressure from the market will only increase as companies join this call for a moratorium on deforestation," said Arief Wicaksono, Political Advisor for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Based on permits for conversion to plantations and other agricultural uses, Indonesia has destroyed over 28 million hectares of forest since 1990, plantations of either palm oil or pulp wood have been established on 9 million hectares.
Wicaksono continued: “Further destruction of forests for palm oil is clearly not needed based on these statistics. Greenpeace is not calling for an end to the palm oil sector but that it the stops destroying forests, peatlands and the climate for palm oil development. We call on the palm oil industry and the Government of Indonesia to immediately implement a moratorium on deforestation.”
Greenpeace also called upon other big corporate palm oil users and members of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (including Procter & Gamble, Kraft, and Nestle) to join forces with Unilever and insist that palm oil suppliers immediately agree to stop ongoing forest destruction.
TARSIER:- Dove soap is actually the only soap i use, i find once i used it nothing else was as good, personally i am really happy with Unilever to make these first moves as i can continue to use it and will as long as there is positive action to save our rainforests, we need the trees and they need us.
Jakarta, Indonesia — Greenpeace today welcomed Unilever’s call for a moratorium on rainforest destruction in Indonesia, stressing that the company’s new position on the issue should push Indonesian authorities to take more aggressive action to reverse deforestation in the country starting with the institution of a moratorium on logging and forest conversion. In a speech delivered in London yesterday, Unilever CEO Patrick Cescau supported Greenpeace’s demand for a complete halt to the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforest and peatlands for palm oil. He also promised that all of Unilever’s palm oil would be sustainable by 2015. However, the environmental group warned that without a halt to deforestation, Unilever’s efforts to source sustainable palm oil would be doomed to fail.
This decision follows a new Greenpeace campaign exposing how Unilever’s suppliers are actively clearing Indonesia’s peatlands and rainforests, anddestroying orang-utan and wildlife habitats in the process. Destruction of Indonesia’s peatland rainforests contributes 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
“Unilever's suppliers such as Sinar Mas, ADM-Kuok-Wilmar and IOI must heed this strong signal from probably the world's largest corporate consumer of palm oil and stop destroying rainforests, peatlands and the climate for palm oil expansion. The writing is on the wall - the pressure from the market will only increase as companies join this call for a moratorium on deforestation," said Arief Wicaksono, Political Advisor for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Based on permits for conversion to plantations and other agricultural uses, Indonesia has destroyed over 28 million hectares of forest since 1990, plantations of either palm oil or pulp wood have been established on 9 million hectares.
Wicaksono continued: “Further destruction of forests for palm oil is clearly not needed based on these statistics. Greenpeace is not calling for an end to the palm oil sector but that it the stops destroying forests, peatlands and the climate for palm oil development. We call on the palm oil industry and the Government of Indonesia to immediately implement a moratorium on deforestation.”
Greenpeace also called upon other big corporate palm oil users and members of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (including Procter & Gamble, Kraft, and Nestle) to join forces with Unilever and insist that palm oil suppliers immediately agree to stop ongoing forest destruction.
TARSIER:- Dove soap is actually the only soap i use, i find once i used it nothing else was as good, personally i am really happy with Unilever to make these first moves as i can continue to use it and will as long as there is positive action to save our rainforests, we need the trees and they need us.
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