Since the rapid turn-around of Unilever in the
wake of our Dove campaign, our campaigners have met several times with their
executives. They've been discussing how to build a coalition of allies throughout
the palm oil industry which will support a moratorium on further deforestation
in Indonesia
to grow new plantations. As Tracy
mentioned last week, even though things might go a bit quiet on this campaign
for while, that doesn't mean we're not working away behind the scenes.
This report highlights the urgent need for
global palm oil consumers and investors to support Unilever's call for
an immediate moratorium on deforestation and peatland clearance in
Indonesia.
This report focuses on Unilever,
which shares major institutional investors with other leading
corporations including Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Kraft. Not only
do these corporations share investors, they also share growing carbon
liability within their raw material supply chains through the expansion
in the palm oil sector in Indonesia.
Posted by jossc — 1 May 2008 at 12:29pm
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Potentially good news for orang-utans - Unilever announced this morning that they're now supporting our calls
for a moratorium to protect Indonesia's rainforests from destruction at the hands of the expanding palm oil industry.
When we sent in our own 'orang-utans' to Unilever HQ last week to tell them
that they needed to do more to stop rainforest and peatlands being
cleared to make way for palm oil plantations, company executives told us
that they wouldn't be forced into a quick decision on the matter.
Posted by jamie — 23 April 2008 at 3:15pm
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The orang-utans may have retreated from
Unilever's premises for the time being, but our campaign to protect Indonesia's
rainforests from the expanding palm oil industry has only just started. As well
as an advert appearing in today's edition of the Times, commuters at
Blackfriars tube station in London
this morning saw some of our special 'Dove' adverts alongside the escalators.
Blackfriars is the nearest station to Unilever's London headquarters, so a large number of
their staff should have seen them on their way into work. Watch the video below for a taste of what they saw.
Posted by jamie — 21 April 2008 at 6:56pm
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A couple of videos that throw our new Dove campaign into sharp relief. The first is a rather stonking effort from our international office, taking Dove's own Onslaught film as it's inspiration (you can see the original here). The second, some highlights from the fun and games in London and Merseyside earlier today. Enjoy.
Today, we're launching the next stage in our campaign to protect the rainforests of Indonesia from the expansion of the palm oil industry. Our volunteers, dressed as orang-utans, are currently climbing over the London headquarters of the company behind Dove, which uses palm oil as one of its ingredients. Our latest research shows that Unilever, the makers of Dove, is buying palm oil from companies that are destroying valuable rainforest and peatland areas, which is bad news not only for the millions of people who depend on them for their way of life and endangered species such as the orang-utan, but also for the global climate.
Major new campaign targets one of the biggest consumers of palm oil on the planet
21 April, 2008
The company behind some of the world's biggest brands, including Dove, is driving the destruction of the last remaining habitats of the orang-utan and massively speeding up climate change, according to environmental group Greenpeace.
Simultaneous "direct actions" are taking place across the UK and Europe, and a damning new report has been released highlighting Unilever's use of palm oil supplied by companies that are systematically destroying the rainforests of Indonesia.
In November 2007, Greenpeace released Cooking the Climate, an 82-page report summarising the findings of a two-year investigation that revealed how
the world’s largest food, cosmetic and biofuel companies were driving the
wholesale destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands through growing
palm oil consumption.
