The environmental organization Greenpeace today revealed the list of big companies like Alcampo, Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken with deforestation and climate change
really is tremendous ... It turns out that in the XXI century we are destroying virgin forest areas unique and unrepeatable full of life and beauty, also inhabited by endangered species of estinción ... And everything to make paper cups of Burger King! course on the news are more important things to talk about, such as hot weather in summer, and stuff so important that we have ...
Luckily there is an organization called Greenpeace to which we can never thank him enough for the work done to investigate and report on issues as fundamental as this one of those who do not speak for big media interest.
The report on this subject has been published today in several countries in Europe and Asia under the name How Sinar Mas is the planet pulping ( How Sinar Mas is transforming the planet into pulp ) (1) where shows that well-known companies as Alcampo , Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) are linked to the worsening climate change and extinction of species like the orangutan and the Sumatran tiger because of its use or sale of paper from the rainforests of Indonesia.
These and other companies buy disposable paper products (cups, bottles, tissue paper or printing) from APP (Asia Pulp and Paper), belonging to the multinational Sinar Mas, whose practices destroy rain forests and Indonesia's peatlands.
"This research shows that lack of environmental policies in the business sector, as is the case Alcampo contribute to the destruction of forests and peatlands of Indonesia by industry manufacturer of paper products ", said Miguel Angel Soto, head of the campaign of Greenpeace Forests and Climate. Greenpeace has done his research in two areas important forest on the island of Sumatra, where he has found a true PPP is causing environmental disaster in areas like the forests of Bukit Tigapuluh, one of the last refuges for endangered species such as Sumatran tigers and orangutans. The rich peatlands Kerumutan carbon are key in defending against climate change. Some of them are deeper than three meters and is therefore unlawful processing plantations. A subsidiary of APP logging these forests for wood supply to its two pulp and paper in Sumatra, whose products are exported all over the world.
"These two examples are just a sampling of the many forests of high conservation value that are destroyed by APP for the production of pulp and paper, and also for the expansion of crops such as palm oil" , Soto added. "The compromise announced by President of Indonesia, Yudyohono, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases is not real unless it establishes a moratorium on destruction of forests and peatlands" .
the past two years, Greenpeace has repeatedly exposed the illegal and destructive practices (3) Golden Agri Resources (GAR), the subsidiary of Sinar Mas Group
dedicated to the production of palm oil. This case, along with new evidence about the practices of its subsidiary paper released by Greenpeace, has led to other companies (Unilever, Kraft and NestléI) to cancel their contracts with the giant palm oil and paper from Indonesia (4) . Sinar Mas Group is continuing its destructive logging practices and illegal. His proclamations and "commitment to sustainability" are worthless. Greenpeace calls on all businesses listed in the report, as Alcampo (Auchan), or Burger King, to suspend its relations with Sinar Mas immediately. It also urges the need for publicly supporting the Government of Indonesia to protect forests and peat bogs from destruction.
The destruction of rainforests and peatlands makes Indonesia emits about a quarter of all greenhouse gases from deforestation and is, according to Indonesian government estimates, the third largest emitter in the world.
Notes:
(1) Greenpeace report in English:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/SinarMas-APP/
(2) APP has pulp and paper mills in Indonesia and China and plans to purchase in Australia, Canada and the U.S.. It has sales networks in the U.S., the UK and Spain. Spain is one of its most important markets is growing and where more sales of paper products from APP.
(3) Between November 2007 and April 2010, Greenpeace filed a case series documenting the destruction of forests and bogs by the Sinar Mas Group for palm oil production related to the laundering of image RSPO.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/forests/sinarmasRSPOgreenwash.pdf
(4) A number of major companies like Staples, Office Depot and Woolworths (Australia) have canceled their contracts with Sinar Mas due to poor environmental practices.
