Chocolate giant Mondelēz is making billions in profit while its palm oil
suppliers destroy the rainforest home of the critically endangered Bornean
orangutan.

We’re getting ready to show up and hijack the company’s annual meeting in
a couple of months, but before that, we need A TON of petition signatures.
Take action today, say no to palm oil deforestation.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Milka and Oreo are filled with rainforest destruction – because its maker
Mondelēz keeps sourcing palm oil from companies that are destroying
critical orangutan habitat on their home island of Borneo.

Reports show how Indonesia’s sketchy mega agribusiness Royal Golden Eagle
(RGE) has potentially deforested a peatland area more than 5 times the
size of Manhattan to turn it into pulpwood plantations – yet Mondelēz
refuses to drop all RGE-affiliated producers from its palm oil supply
chain.

But as Mondelēz's largest shareholder meeting of the year is coming up, we
have the perfect opportunity to force the chocolate giant into action. If
we remind its leadership now that it’s still lagging behind industry peers
like Unilever with its no deforestation commitments, it will listen – add
your name:

[ [link removed] ]Mondelēz: Clean up your supply chain – implement a no deforestation
policy across all commodities now!

Palm oil and pulp and paper supply chains are murky and multi-layered.
Oftentimes, it’s a handful of rogue shadow companies that are
clear-cutting Indonesia’s old-growth forests – and that are formally
operating independently, but de facto belong to one of the agribusiness
giants, such as RGE in this case.

Mondelēz uses this as an excuse not to apply its own non-deforestation
policy across all commodities, no matter palm oil, cocoa or pulpwood. The
truth is: The candy giant is the only one from the major consumer goods
companies like Unilever or Nestlé that doesn’t have a stand-alone,
cross-commodity no-deforestation, no-peat expansion, no exploitation
(NDPE) policy!

We can’t let this candymaker off the hook while plantations keep eating
into the last remaining orangutan habitats on Borneo – driven by the
corporate demand for more and cheaper palm oil and pulpwood. Let’s use the
coming weeks ahead of Mondelēz's biggest meeting and hold its leadership
accountable.

[ [link removed] ]Mondelēz: No more destroyed orangutan habitat in your candy – clean up
your supply chain now!

It took our community and partners years of campaigning to get mega
corporations like PepsiCo to commit to stricter no deforestation policies,
but it worked. These companies know that the world is watching, so let’s
make it happen again with Mondelēz!



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Rosa, Fatah and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]An ‘anonymous’ company secretly linked to an Indonesian billionaire is
destroying Borneo’s rainforests, environmentalists say
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). 19 March,
2024
[ [link removed] ]Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat
Mongabay. 07 January, 2025
[ [link removed] ]Massive Deforestation and Accountability Issues Remain at Royal Golden
Eagle Group
RAN. 15 August, 2024

 

 

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