Add this to PepsiCo’s conflict palm oil file: we’ve
released a report that ties the snack food giant to massive-scale
deforestation in Indonesia, home to our precious
orangutans.
PepsiCo has knowingly stayed in business with the Salim Group, a
company tied to reckless palm oil producers responsible for
the destruction of nearly 10,000 hectares of Borneo’s pristine peat
forests––an area bigger than Manhattan!
Meanwhile,
PepsiCo keeps on promising that it’s working towards a truly
sustainable palm oil policy, making commitments to human rights and
zero deforestation. But this new report leaves no doubt:
this whole time, PepsiCo’s palm oil promises have been nothing but
smoke and mirrors.
Tell PepsiCo it's time to cut ties with companies
destroying our rainforests and exploiting their workers for cheap
palm oil.
Tell
PepsiCo we won't stand for conflict palm oil: it's time to cut ties
with companies causing climate chaos.
While PepsiCo makes profits cutting corners in its palm
oil policy, people and the planet are paying a steep price.
Tropical rainforests are falling at increasing rates for new palm
oil plantations -- pushing endangered species like Borneo’s pygmy
elephant to the brink of extinction.
Field investigations and
satellite analysis show that palm oil companies tied to the
Salim Group have continued to destroy carbon-rich peat forests in
Borneo for five years straight. The destruction has
continued in defiance of Indonesian laws, fueling the fires that
rage each year, accelerating climate change, and causing a health
crisis for local communities.
Why did PepsiCo partners engage
in such reckless practices? It’s the cheapest way to clear a
forest for a palm oil plantation.
Tell
PepsiCo we won't stand for conflict palm oil: it's time to cut ties
with companies causing climate chaos.
We won’t take any more of PepsiCo’s empty promises while it
continues to work with repeat offenders who destroy rainforests and
exploit workers.
We’re calling on Pepsi to adopt a
comprehensive “No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation” palm oil
policy that applies to all of its business partners at the company
group level, and to close the loopholes that give its
business partners and palm oil suppliers a free pass to operate with
no sustainability standards.
In October 2018, hundreds of
thousands of us successfully put pressure on PepsiCo to stop
sourcing palm oil entirely from Indofood and IndoAgri. The
problem is that PepsiCo is still making money off its joint venture
partnership with Indofood.
Join
us in telling PepsiCo: it's time to stop being complicit and to cut
conflict palm oil for good.
