It has been close to a decade since consumer brands pledged to eliminate deforestation from palm oil and other key commodities by 2020. Despite these commitments, there is growing evidence that these companies will fail to meet this deadline, which poses significant threats to protecting our climate, human rights, and forests.
At the start of year, Greenpeace put 16 leading global brands that use palm oil to the test: Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrero, General Mills, Hershey, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg’s, Kraft Heinz, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, PZ Cussons, Reckitt Benckiser, Smucker’s and Unilever. We asked these consumer companies to disclose the names of the traders they buy palm oil from and the list of mills that produce their palm oil.
This information would prove that these companies aren’t buying from forest destroyers. In a new Greenpeace report, Moment of Truth we reveal the consumer companies that came out of hiding and the ones that refused to reveal this information. All of these consumer companies hold “no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation” (NDPE) policies, which means that they have all committed to source palm oil that is free of from forest destruction, peatland degradation and human rights abuses by no later than 2020.
Below is a list of the companies that came clean with this information and the ones that refused to comply with our request.
Download the full report here.
