The University of Vermont confirmed today the removal of all Kimberly-Clark products from campus, joining 11 other universities and colleges that have removed products from tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C), parent company to Kleenex and Scott brands, because the company sources paper fiber from the North American Boreal forest--one of our last remaining ancient forests.
Amid calls to expand offshore drilling that would deepen America’s dependence on fossil fuels and exacerbate the global warming crisis, Representatives Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Yvette Clarke of New York, and Raul Grijalva of Arizona will call for real solutions to global warming at a press conference on Tuesday, September 9, 2008. The representatives, members of the House Committee on Small Business, will join two business owners representing 3,300 small businesses nationwide that are petitioning Congress to enact science-based solutions to the global warming crisis that reduce the country’s dependence on oil, create jobs, and leave a clean environment for our children.
Questions have been raised about the extent to which including REDD credits in the carbon markets would reduce incentives to invest in clean and renewable technologies and affect our ability to stay well below 2°C. Greenpeace therefore commissioned the economic modeling experts at KEA3 to examine the impacts of including REDD in the carbon markets.
In just eight weeks, a global Greenpeace campaign transformed Nestlé from a company driving rainforest destruction, to one pioneering an ambitious new policy to ensure its products have a zero deforestation footprint.
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