Lady Freethinker has joined the fight to save the rainforests, signing onto a letter to the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) urging it to fulfill its “No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation” and “Stop the Fires” commitments.
Sent by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) on World Rainforest Day, the letter calls on the CGF Sustainability Team, CGF Forest Positive Coalition and all CGF members to provide evidence that they are taking positive steps to eradicate and rectify deforestation and halt human rights violations in their supply chains.
A letter sent in September 2019 urging the CGF to take action on these crucial issues and maintain the pledge it made ten years ago to end deforestation in its member companies’ supply chains by 2020 received no response, according to signatories.
“Since then, fires, deforestation, and human rights abuses have gotten worse — destroying irreplaceable ecosystems and threatening communities across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia,” the letter stresses. “Yet, CGF and its member companies have done little to leverage their market and supply chain influence for tangible change. Most egregiously, the CGF and its member companies have largely continued sourcing from the same suppliers responsible for deforestation and human rights abuses without repercussion or accountability — providing market access, contracts, and funds to the perpetrators of these continued violations.”
According to the letter, CGF must: ensure its members’ suppliers stop converting tropical rainforests to agricultural land; recognize and respect local communities’ land rights; publish guidelines to address non-compliance in supply chains; adopt human rights and grievance redress policies; and publish annual reports detailing the progress of CGF member companies.
“Neither the planet nor the CGF can afford to wait any longer to take the necessary steps to end deforestation, rights abuses, and violence in supply chains,” the letter reads. “With the whole world watching, we strongly urge CGF members to live up to their commitment to ending deforestation in supply chains and to publicly implement the priority actions provided, by the end of the first quarter of 2020.”
Over 80 organizations have signed onto the letter, including Amnesty International, Oxfam, Compassion in World Farming USA, Orangutan Foundation International, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Environmental Investigation Agency and World Animal Protection.
To read the letter in its entirety, click here.
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Thank you, this is so important.
Hooray Lady Freethinker – Mother needs all the help she can get!!! xo
I will never buy any grocery products which contain palm oil or vitamin A palmitate. The rainforests of Indonesia, and the wildlife therein, are too valuable to sacrifice.
Weshpuld not destroy lofe. We are part of it.
THESE TERRIBLE PEOPLE ARE NOT ONLY RUINING THE LIVES OF THE ANIMALS THAT LIVE THERE, THEY’RE ALSO REDUCING THE OXYGEN THAT IS NEED TO LIVE ON EARTH.
I D I O T S!
We must stop this distruction. We are destroying our planet and the animals that live there.
Stop deforestation it is killing our beautiful planet.
We need the trees.
Well done ♥
Our planet’s lungs are dying and so are we – more pandemics in future due to our poor stewardship of this planet and failure to accept our impact to the planet’s health (carbon emmissions etc.). WE keep denying and and so, we’ll be dying.
We need the trees and forests. They don’t need us. We are like a terrible plague on this once verdant and beautiful planet. We MUST STOP this INSANE destruction or we will be the ones who suffer for it, as deserved.
Feel their pain
Stopp abskogingem
You would think the Chinese Government , would have learned from the first time , the Corona virus pandemic killed so many innocent people . But no , they don’t give dam about their own people , or for that matter , the rest of the worlds people . Has the world gone bloody mad ! For years , I’ve had dreams of this appalling plague , now it’s a frightening reality . A Dogs meat festival ? Oh please ! For Gods sake , Wake Me Up !
I hope they follow this.
Please follow this.
Please, please, follow the recommedations of this letter. They are vital to the survival of the tribes that live and have always lived in the Amazon forest. They are also vital to the survival of the earth.
Please … our oxygen supply depends on this..