Land is ready to begin planting for expansion of palm oil plantations in the concession area of PT Buana Adhitama © Greenpeace / Bina Karos

Vast, bald, deforested areas surround us, while in the background we can see the wall of surviving forest. Evidence of forest clearing is all around us so we have what we came for – but strangely we haven’t caught anyone red-handed today. There are no workers in sight. Our scouting team go ahead to track down the company in the act of destroying the forest while the rest of us stay behind to bake in the extreme heat. There’s not a single tree left, so there’s no shade. It’s noon on Friday April 23rd and we have found fresh evidence that palm oil supplier Sinar Mas is still in the process of destroying Indonesian rainforests.

Today, April 27th, Sinar Mas held its Annual General Meeting in Singapore and we presented the fresh evidence we collected over the weekend at a press conference just before the start of the AGM – but getting this new evidence was not easy.

We set out for Palangkaraya, the capital of Central Kalimantan in Indonesia on April 23rd to meet other NGO friends to exchange information and to gather more data on what PT Buana Adi Tama (PT BAT for short), a subsidiary of notorious forest and climate destroyer, Sinar Mas, has been up to in the area.

After hours of pawing through documents, we found out that the company was - as we suspected - illegally clearing the forest without a timber cutting permit until 2008, and from what we saw, we strongly suspected that it is still operating illegally. Sinar Mas has broken its promise to stop this sort of destruction – again. The area the company is clearing also overlaps with orangutan habitat and it has already cleared some areas where orangutans have been frequently spotted. We’re going to catch them red-handed.

We wasted no time. The following day, we picked up some journalists who wanted to come with us to gather their own evidence – and, along with the rest of our team, stepped on the gas. It was remote and the road bad – we went off the track several times and it felt as though we were in an international rally, the only difference was that there were no flags and people waving - and that on either side of us lay mile upon mile of degraded forest land and palm oil plantations. Finally we arrived in Kuala Kuayan, a small village on the Mentaya river bank, our final stop before we headed out to the scene of the destruction.

We were up before dawn and rushed to kick start the trip. On the way, we picked up our local contact and a local deer hunter, who frequently sees orangutans during his hunting trips, near forest areas that PT BAT is destroying. There are now 12 people in our group, including two drivers. We traveled fast through the morning dawn, nervous because we had no idea of what awaited us or whether we’d run into unfriendly folk from the company while we gathered our evidence.

Pulling the cars

Just half an hour from our target site we skidded to a halt, the road was already bad but ahead it became an impossibly deep, muddy off-road track. We suddenly faced our most difficult situation of the trip. The drivers were not convinced we could get through it. Motorcycles were our best bet – but where could we find motorcycles in the middle of nowhere? But luck was on our side – it was as if God was forbidding us to give up: two local guys appeared from nowhere on motorbikes. When our local contact told them about our destination, they offered to help us in any way they could. Minutes later, one of the journalists and a couple of our team were off up the track to scout conditions on the road ahead. They returned with bad news: there are two big ditch-like paths that we’d have to pass to get to the location. It was too hot to hike so we had no choice but to try and move on.

We were all holding our breath as the first car drove in to the muddy and deep pathway – but it got through and this gave us enough bravery to try the other one. We had to haul it out of the mud with ropes but we did it - the old saying proved right, if you already have the courage to overcome one big obstacle and you succeed, that success will guide you to beat the others. And with that optimism we overcame the other two obstacles, although we had to pull the cars all the way.

© Greenpeace / Bina Karos

By noon we had reached the location where the clearing was taking place, but no workers were there. To solve the puzzle, we headed off to the worker’s barracks, hoping to find someone brave enough to tell us what was going on. There were only two people there, a worker and someone from a village adjacent to the area the company is destroying. The truth of what was happening rolled out: there was no land clearing today because yesterday some people from the community had attacked the workers as they destroyed the forest.

It appears that the company has spurred a land conflict with the community from the adjacent village. We know of many cases of these kinds of social conflicts, particularly when Sinar Mas is involved, and they often become very violent - the villager did not want us to get him on record saying this.

Again, Lady Luck smiled upon us. A guy appeared who introduced himself as an elder from the village and a victim of the conflict. He was willing to be interviewed. According to him, one guy tricked several of the villagers into giving him their letters of land ownership, which he then gave to the company. He had said they would develop the land into a community rubber plantation but then a big palm oil plantation appeared instead.

We not only had our evidence but also an insight into how the company is operating in the area. Exhausted - we headed back to base and by midnight were preparing the fresh visual evidence of Sinar Mas breaking its promises to stop this sort of destruction. We want to make sure it cannot get away with telling its lies again.

We know a lot depended on our investigation and that a lot now rests on us getting this evidence out to everyone – we have until morning to get it to Singapore, where our team has arranged a press conference in advance of Sinar Mas’ AGM, and to our Greenpeace offices around the world so that we can show everyone what this company is up to in the rainforest.

Joko on location collecting evidence of new forest clearing by Sinar Mas

The evidence got to our press conference on time, where international media outlets and journalists were able to see it, but we also wanted to make sure we shared it with you: our online supporters.

We want Nestlé to stop buying palm oil from destructive companies like Sinar Mas. Since we launched our Kit Kat campaign, Nestlé has canceled its direct contract with Sinar Mas but it still buys palm oil from the company via Cargill. Nestlé says it expects Cargill to decide whether it will sever its contracts with Sinar Mas by the end of this month.

We’re not against palm oil plantations but we can’t let companies like Sinar Mas get away with destroying our rainforests. With this evidence, how can Nestlé justify carrying on buying Sinar Mas palm oil – unless the company genuinely cleans up its act?

Guest blogged by Joko Arif - Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Indonesia

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Good question. After dropping into Nestlé's Annual General Meeting on April 15th to deliver the message that the largest food and drink company in the world is still using palm oil and paper products from forest destruction - we got a response.

Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe painted a very reassuring picture of what Nestlé is doing (or not doing) to address the products in it's supply chains which come from destroyed forests. His statement has been prominently displayed on the Nestlé homepage since the AGM where our activists at the meeting - and all of you supporting the campaign online - ensured that palm oil was a main focus of the agenda.

In his statement Mr Brabeck tries to shift most of the blame onto the biofuels industry - another user of palm oil - but just because biofuels is another increasing threat to rainforests does not mean Nestlé can continue to ignore it's own contribution to the problem. Although Nestlé has canceled direct contracts with Indonesian palm oil supplier - and forest destroyer - Sinar Mas it continues to use palm oil and other products from Sinar Mas via third party suppliers such as Cargill.

Brabeck addresses Cargill specifically in his statement, saying that Nestlé has sought 'assurances' about its palm oil supplies - "Cargill has informed us that Sinar Mas needs to answer Greenpeace’s allegations by the end of April. They have indicated that they will delist Sinar Mas if they do not take corrective action by then." There are only three days left in April.

If Cargill misses this deadline, or does not delist Sinar Mas as expected, what will Nestlé do? Cargill cannot claim that Sinar Mas is not involved in forest and peatland destruction in Indonesia. Even as I write we have fresh evidence that Sinar Mas subsidiary PT BAT is clearing rainforest bordering orang-utan habitat in Central Kalimantan

What is the largest food and drink company in the world to do? Let's ask them.

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Ask Nestlé what it will do if Cargill does not confirm by end of this week that it will drop Sinar Mas - despite fresh evidence of forest destruction. For more on our latest evidence click here.

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It's all pretty depressing, both if you're a citizen in Czech Republic and see vested interest wiping out proper government, and if you live in the Federated States of Micronesia, a country put at risk by this expansion.

So who needs a Department of Climate in an Environment Ministry? Our planet.

A group of 30 protesting orang-utans arrived at the entrance to the AGM just as Nestlé shareholders were beginning to trickle into the coffee tent to take a break before the meeting began. The security guard couldn't quite get the gate closed fast enough to keep the orang-utans out - although he did put in a gallant effort (obviously he doesn't have a lot of experience dealing with animals).

Meanwhile inside the meeting itself - just as the Chairman of the Board began to talk about Nestlé's profits over the past year our activists dropped from the ceiling and unfurled two banners directly over shareholders heads (reaction of the shareholders was a mix of screams and confused clapping). We wanted to ensure that Nestlé's continuing use of palm oil - and pulp and paper products - coming from the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands was front and center on the agenda.

Watch the orang-utans arrive - and our activists 'drop' in to the meeting:

While orang-utans out front passed out flyers to shareholders inviting them to visit our landing page and receive messages directly from you - inside we provided shareholders with a 'free' WiFi network. Once logged on shareholders were treated to 'advice' from us about protecting their investment - and once again directed to the Kit Kat campaign homepage to receive your tweets and comments.

The same online messages were also displayed on a mobile 'Twitter wall' parked outside Nestlé offices in Frankfurt where your tweets to #Nestle were displayed for the entire day. At the AGM in Lausanne the first speech at the meeting was given by our International Head of Forests - Pat Vendetti - who braved some booing and heckling by unimpressed shareholders to keep delivering the message that you've been helping us spread for the past month. Nestlé cannot continue to shrug off responsibility for it's use of products from rainforest destruction.

We want action, you want action - and we all made that very clear yesterday. Thanks for joining in!

However, our four amazing activists who dropped from the ceiling and hung above shareholders heads for over an hour of the AGM in order to deliver our message are still in police custody. We'll be sure to update you on this as soon as we know more.

Update: our 4 activists were released by Swiss authorities after being held for 24 hours. Thanks to them and to all the other activists who took action at Nestle's AGM on Thursday!'

Enjoy more pictures from yesterday's events:

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Recently, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner decided to give the go ahead to build a coal power plant in Patagonia. Yes, a coal plant in the heart of PATAGONIA. Now I'm not sure about you, but the idea building a coal plant belching out CO2 and who knows what other toxic crap in the middle of the glaciers and water reserves of Argentina sounds like whatever comes after a bad idea to me.

Global warming is already a threat to the existence of the Andean glaciers. These glaciers are the main source of water for many communities in Argentina and the rest of South America. They are the most important water reserve for future generations of Argentinians and they are disappearing quickly. So, Greenpeace Argentina decided to take the President's trip to the U.S. as an opportunity to remind her that "A woman with long term political vision would not have endangered the glaciers and water reserves of Argentina." Check out the full ad and learn more about coal and the glaciers of Argentina.

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The camp was built in October 2009 with local help in order to bring attention to the cost of forest destruction to the climate, local communities and biodiversity. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit our activists staged several actions around the Climate Defenders Camp before passing it on to the community in November 2009.

An image of the camp as it was:

What the camp looks like after the fire:

Sinar Mas is destroying forest and peatland in Indonesia partially for pulp and paper and partially to make way for palm oil plantations.You can help us campaign against forest destroyers like Sinar Mas and protect Indonesia's rainforests by supporting our latest effort - our Kit Kat campaign. We are asking Nestlé (maker of Kit Kat) to stop using Sinar Mas palm oil and paper products - which come from forest destruction.

More images of the fire's aftermath at our Climate Defenders Camp:

More images from the Climate Defenders Camp:

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As Greenpeace has been looking at the climate inaction promoted by the Koch brothers lately, they made this little video:

The Koch Brothers have more ways to muddy the waters of the climate debate though. They insist that they are part of an "intellectually honest climate debate", which apparently involves funding sham studies and organising astroturf groups.

We've called them out on their practices in an open letter and delivered it to them in person. We look forward to their answer. In the meantime, I can't help but wish all the worst for Charles and Blanche - no offense to Polluter Harmony, but this is one relationship I don't want to see blooming any further.

Here is the text of the letter to Koch:

April 6, 2010

Dear Charles and David Koch,

I am pleased to hear that you received word of our report detailing your company's and foundations' efforts to fund climate denial organizations and think tanks. However, the response from Koch Industries' spokesperson, as printed in the New York Times "Green Inc." blog, does not address key concerns detailed in the report (http://www.greenpeace.org/kochindustries) and indeed prompts further questions, the answers to which I believe your customers and the American people deserve to know.

I hope you will consider these questions and provide a prompt and public response:

* Do you personally deny the scientific consensus on climate change, including the peer reviewed work of thousands of scientists and statements by major scientific academies and associations worldwide, that global warming is principally caused by human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels?

* Do you stand by the words, deeds and positions of organizations that you fund (and in some cases founded), such as the Cato Institute and Americans for Prosperity, including their overt and continuing efforts to cast doubt and confusion on climate science?

* Do you believe that the Americans for Prosperity "Hot Air Tour"or "Regulation Reality Tour" is an example of the "intellectually honest debate" that you mention in your response to our report or is intended to obstruct the environmental regulatory process?

* Could you please provide examples to support the statement: "Koch companies have long supported science-based inquiry and dialogue about climate change"?

* In addition, would you provide examples to support the statements: "We've strived to encourage an intellectually honest debate on the scientific basis for claims of harm from greenhouse gases." And "We have tried to help bring out the facts of the potential effectiveness and costs of policies proposed to deal with climate."

* Given your interest in an "intellectually honest debate", are you willing to participate in an open debate at the National Press Club on your role in funding climate denial organizations and think tanks?

I am sure you will agree that these questions are straightforward and simple to answer. I look forward to your response.

Respectfully,

Kert Davies
Greenpeace Research Director

It's three weeks since we launched our Nestlé campaign and, thanks to the fantastic support we've received, it's going from strength to strength. Nestlé's Facebook page is still dominated by questions about where the company gets its palm oil from. It seems that every attempt by their admins to change topic is another opportunity to turn the conversation back to deforestation linked to palm oil and other ethically questionable practices. Meanwhile, our Kit Kat video has sailed past an incredible 1.1m views.

Our orang-utans ask Nestlé to give them a break in front of Nestlé's Beijing headquarters.

The email updates coming from our colleagues in Jakarta show that we're having an effect in political circles.

The president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has been talking a lot about forests this week. He talked tough about the "mafia in illegal logging", and commissioned a taskforce to investigate the corruption which is endemic in the industry and which contributes to the clearance of rainforest to make way for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations.

Personally, I was surprised to read that he's also been specifically praising Greenpeace and other pressure groups for criticizing the government's policy on forest management. In a special press conference earlier this week, he also asked for more cooperation between government and organisations like Greenpeace to help protect Indonesia's environment.

Just after the president's statement, our Indonesian team received a request for a meeting with his adviser, where we were joined by other environmental and social NGOs. At the meeting it was explained to the advisor how the president should tackle deforestation: with a moratorium on converting the forest into agricultural land, as well as protecting Indonesia's peatlands.

Well, words don't always translate into action, and Yudhoyono is known for making impressive environmental statements but not following through on his promises. Still, he has pledged to reduce Indonesia's emissions (third largest in the world) by 26 per cent by 2020. As a large proportion of those emissions come from deforestation, reaching that target inevitably means getting serious with the loggers and the agriculture giants who are tearing down forests and burning peatlands.

There's also been a spectrum of reaction from other Indonesian ministers. The agriculture minister said he will work with the palm oil industry to clear its name, and is planning a lobbying tour of Europe to promote Indonesian palm oil. The trade minister has called for an independent investigation into our claims, which is nice. Equally nice to hear the environment minister agreeing that Nestlé had every right to cancel their contracts with Sinar Mas; apparently he would have done the same as well.

Speaking of Sinar Mas, that giant in Indonesia's agriculture sector and rampant destroyer of forests: the company has issued a press release (pdf) announcing it will commission its own independent investigation into our report. Call me cynical, but I don't think I'll be the only one questioning exactly how independent this investigation will be. To me, it sounds like a delaying tactic to draw attention away from the many laws Sinar Mas is currently violating.

We still need you to email or call Nestlé - they're no doubt waiting to hear from you.

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It all began when Facebook announced it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S., packed full of the latest energy efficient computers to serve the hundreds of millions of friends connecting on the near-addictive social networking website. We all love connecting with friends, and the company's energy efficiency initiatives are commendable -- but Facebook plans to run the place on electricity made by burning coal.

We think the company can do better than that -- it must! Thousands more Facebook members add their voices to the call every day, swelling the groups we only started a few weeks ago to almost 400,000 members in total today.

Here's what we're asking of Facebook:

1. Commit to stop using polluting coal power,
   
2. Use its purchasing power to choose only clean, renewable sources of electricity,
   
3. Advocate for strong climate and energy policy changes at the local, national and international level to ensure that as the IT industry's energy demand increases, so does the supply of renewable energy,
   
4. Share this information publicly on its website so its millions of users know the company is a climate leader.
   

By the way, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show is the second highest-rated program in its time slot on U.S. TV, behind only Fox News Channel's Hannity.

[via Kevin Grandia in the Huffington Post]

The dirty coal industry keeps trying to convince us that they aren't all that bad but you only have to switch on the news to see the truth...

Over the Easter weekend a Chinese coal container ship ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and now threatens the pristine and fragile environment with a massive oil spill. And this morning we heard the tragic news of a coal mine explosion in West Virginia that killed 25 people - with 4 still missing.

These are not unusual events either. There's a long list of fatal coal disasters in the US alone since the 1970s. And in China - these kind of accidents are happening all the time. Over 30 Chinese miners are currently trapped in a coal mine - with no signs of life as a dangerous build up of methane has hindered rescue efforts.

It's not surprising then that the U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said the coal industry is "still unsafe". He also said that safety “is one of the many factors that goes into a decision on how to develop our energy resources”.

We're hoping he's looked into the ongoing safety issues surrounding nuclear power. And that he'll take into full consideration the impacts of coastal drilling.

Coal is the single biggest climate polluter and one of the dirtiest, deadliest substances out there -- but it's clean and safe renewable fuels and energy efficiency that we need to focus on - not other dangerous and destructive energy sources. We can meet the world's energy demands, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, boost the economy and create jobs without expanding the dirty fuel industries.

Don't take our word for it though. Check out our Energy [R]evolution and our Working for the Climate reports.

You’ve probably come here to read a blog post written by our colleague Gene, in which he addresses climate sceptics by saying:

“Let's talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.

"If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.”

Well, we’ve taken down that post from our website. It’s very easy to misconstrue that line, take it out of context and suggest it means something wholly different from the practice of peaceful civil disobedience, which is what the post was about. Anyone who knows Gene knows he’s an entirely peaceful guy. In the interest of transparency we have moved it off site to this location, where you can read the offending quotes in context and judge for yourself:

We got this one wrong, no doubt about it. I’m holding up my hands on behalf of the organisation and saying sorry for that. Peaceful action is at the very core of what we do, so any language that even comes close to suggesting that’s not the case is something we cannot support.

Gene in his blog asks: “What do you do when patient petitioning, protest marches and court orders fail? What do you do when all the protocols and cheat codes of democracy fail? This is what you do: you reclaim the language of democracy from the twisted bunch that have hijacked, cannibalized and subverted it.”

We need to reclaim the language of democracy and tolerance. A language that is clear and precise. A language that does not confuse integrity of protest and civil disobedience with anger. One which establishes the fundamental tenets of protecting the planet for all life forms.

The climate change debate is often characterised by more heat than light, and for that reason we all need to be careful about how we express ourselves.

Of course the anti-science brigade on the web has seized on the line in Gene's post and run with it (and will run and run and run), taken it out of context and run with it some more – it’s what the climate contrarians exist to do.

We do not look over our colleagues’ shoulders when they blog. That’s not what the web is about – and that means we’ll make mistakes. No doubt this won’t be the last one, but next time we’ll deal with it a little quicker.

Thank you for coming to the Greenpeace website, and while you’re here please take the chance to have a look round at some of the work we do.

And if you have any questions about what I’ve written here, feel free to drop me a line at: ananth[at]greenpeace.org, International Programme Director, Greenpeace International.

-- Ananth

"If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.”

Well, we’ve taken down that post from our website. It’s very easy to misconstrue that line, take it out of context and suggest it means something wholly different from the practice of peaceful civil disobedience, which is what the post was about. Anyone who knows Gene knows he’s an entirely peaceful guy. In the interest of transparency we have moved it off site to this location, where you can read the offending quotes in context and judge for yourself:

We got this one wrong, no doubt about it. I’m holding up my hands on behalf of the organisation and saying sorry for that. Peaceful action is at the very core of what we do, so any language that even comes close to suggesting that’s not the case is something we cannot support.

Gene in his blog asks: “What do you do when patient petitioning, protest marches and court orders fail? What do you do when all the protocols and cheat codes of democracy fail? This is what you do: you reclaim the language of democracy from the twisted bunch that have hijacked, cannibalized and subverted it.”

We need to reclaim the language of democracy and tolerance. A language that is clear and precise. A language that does not confuse integrity of protest and civil disobedience with anger. One which establishes the fundamental tenets of protecting the planet for all life forms.

The climate change debate is often characterised by more heat than light, and for that reason we all need to be careful about how we express ourselves.

Of course the anti-science brigade on the web has seized on the line in Gene's post and run with it (and will run and run and run), taken it out of context and run with it some more – it’s what the climate contrarians exist to do.

We do not look over our colleagues’ shoulders when they blog. That’s not what the web is about – and that means we’ll make mistakes. No doubt this won’t be the last one, but next time we’ll deal with it a little quicker.

Thank you for coming to the Greenpeace website, and while you’re here please take the chance to have a look round at some of the work we do.

And if you have any questions about what I’ve written here, feel free to drop me a line at: ananth[at]greenpeace.org, International Programme Director, Greenpeace International

I told Bob that despite Nestlé's announcement that it would cancel contracts with Indonesian palm oil supplier Sinar Mas it would still be using Sinar Mas palm oil through other suppliers – like Cargill – who will continue to buy from Sinar Mas and sell to Nestlé. In short – Nestlé will continue to use palm oil from destroyed rainforests and peatlands in its products. This was not acceptable – which should have been clear to Nestlé and Bob from the response of the public on Nestlé's Facebook page and other online forums.

I did want to hear the statement – and ten minutes later I had been read – by Bob – basically the same statements included here in Nestlé's 'Statement on palm oil', and the same ones that Nestlé has been giving people who have e-mailed them (127.000 e-mails sent and growing). I didn't feel very at ease after hearing it.

Bob told me that Nestlé was working hard to ensure that they were not using palm oil from unsustainable sources – but that this, of course, took time.

But Bob - Nestlé has had years to investigate and cleanse its palm oil supply chain. Greenpeace has been in contact with Nestlé repeatedly with evidence that their supply chain contains palm oil from rainforest destruction and just last April we received a letter from Nestle saying it had undertaken a “detailed review”. Now is not the time for further delays – now is the time to act on the “verifiable facts” on its palm oil sources Nestlé claims to have already identified in that letter.

Next, before I had even mentioned APP (Asia Pulp and Paper – a subsidiary of Sinar Mas) Bob confidently announced that Nestlé was definitely not buying any paper or other products from APP. And I told Bob that Nestlé cannot confirm that it does not buy from APP indirectly through other suppliers - and therefore should not be making statements if it cannot or has not provided the evidence to back them up.

Bob himself did sound pretty genuinely concerned about the rainforests, and the orangutans, and the impacts of destroying rainforests and peatlands for palm oil – which includes carbon emissions contributing to climate change, habitat destruction, and ruining the livelihoods of local people. But when he told me again how concerned Nestlé was about this – I had to stop him.

If Nestlé is so genuinely concerned about Indonesia's rainforests – then why doesn't Nestlé publicly support a moratorium on deforestation in Indonesia? Why doesn't Nestlé work with the Indonesian government and the palm oil industry to protect rainforests and peatlands?

Nestlé is the largest food and drinks company in the world. It has the power – and the responsibility to act immediately on this issue to the benefit of Indonesia's rainforests and peatlands - and those whom depend on them for survival. The general public and Nestlé's own customers are asking for action and instead Nestlé is reading them prepared statements. A prepared statement is not genuine concern. It is also not action – it is just words.

I asked Bob if he would also pass that along to corporate? And he assured me – very happily – that he would. I wonder how much longer it will take for all of our messages to get through to 'corporate'?

What can you do?
Send an e-mail to Nestlé's CEO and Chairman of the Board. If you already have - ask your friends and family to join in.
Call Nestlé - and make clear that The Prepared Palm Oil Statement is not good enough.
Tweet this campaign.
Share this campaign on Facebook.
See what others are doing online to support the campaign.

[*I changed Bob's name - he was actually very friendly about the whole thing. Thanks, Bob.]

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