PARIS and KUALA LUMPUR, 20th October 2022 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Human Rights Coalition – Working to End Forced Labour (HRC) has launched its People Positive Palm (P3) Project, designed to drive collaboration between consumer goods companies and palm oil suppliers in Malaysia to address the issue of forced labour in the Malaysian palm oil sector. The project was launched during a series of meetings and workshops in Kuala Lumpur, where HRC members, 13 participating Malaysian palm oil suppliers, and other stakeholders met to kickstart the project.
To celebrate International Orangutan Day (19 August), we take a look at six fmcg brands and retailers noted to be ‘leading the way’ on palm oil sustainability in WWF’s 2020 Palm Oil Buyers scorecard
The food giant reveals how a simplification of a once sprawling palm oil supply chain has helped the company to ensure it can deliver on its sustainable sourcing pledges
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One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions.
Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation.
Many companies have promised to address deforestation related to their business activities for years, but few have fully delivered on those plans and an astonishingly high number of companies don’t have an explicit commitment to ending deforestation.