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’