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The timber industry in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought money and jobs – but also pollution, environmental devastation and food insecurity
United Nations end business with the Bolloré Group
The Oakland Institute, along with 39 organizations from 16 countries, is calling on United Nations (UN) entities, agencies, and programs to immediately cease all business relationships with the France-based Bolloré Group and its different subsidiaries.
The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The UN pays Bolloré over US$50 million every year for logistics and other services. Between 2015 and 2019, different UN entities including the UN Procurement Division, the World Food Programme, and UNICEF signed over 200 contracts with the Group for a value of over a quarter billion dollars. In addition to providing logistics, the Bolloré Group is, however, also involved in rubber and oil palm plantations through its 39.4 percent shareholding of the Luxembourg-based SOCFIN Group, which controls close to 400,000 hectares of concessions for plantations in Asia and Africa. For years, SOCFIN has been accused of land