Thirty activist 'orang-utans' greeted shareholders as they arrived for Nestle's Annual General Meeting today asking them to give Indonesia's rainforests a break and stop profiting from destroying rainforest, threatening biodiversity and accelerating climate change.
Banner drop inside Nestlé AGM.
Inside the meeting itself Greenpeace activists dropped from the
ceiling and unfurled two large banners directly over the heads of
shareholders. We want shareholders to use their influence to change
Nestle's policies and stopusing palm oil and pulp and paper
products from destroyed rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands.
Since the launch of ourKit Kat campaign (March 17th), 200,000
people have sent e-mails to Nestlé and hundreds have called them.
Today hundreds more are addressingthem and their shareholders
online - we invited Nestle shareholders to receive messages during
the AGM directly from online supporters of our campaign by visiting
where they will also be able to watch the Kit Kat video that
launched the campaign and has now been viewed over 1.3 million
Our International Head of Forests Campaigns, Pat Vendetti, made
a short address directly to shareholders. He urged them to ensure
that Nestle stop purchasing products from rainforest destruction.
The company is not only driving climate change and biodiversity
loss if it continues, but it is also damaging its corporate
Earlier in the day German activists gathered at Nestle's
headquarters in Frankfurt where they erected a 'Twitter wall'
displaying tweets from online supporters at Nestle employees as
they arrived for work.
Following the launch of the Kit Kat campaign, Nestle publicly
announced that it would cancel its direct contracts with
Indonesia's biggest palm oil supplier, Sinar Mas, because it has a
long history of environmental abuse. These cancellations did not
really give the rainforests a break, because Nestle continues to
use Sinar Mas palm oil, as well as Sinar Mas pulp and paper
products, via other suppliers like Cargill and Asia Pulp and Paper
(APP), a subsidiary of Sinar Mas.
Each day that Nestle allows Sinar Mas products in it's supply
chain, it links itself to the rampant destruction of Indonesia's
rainforests and peatlands. Today we have published
new satellite and photographic evidence showing that Sinar Mas
continued to destroy peatlands and other conserved areas in
Indonesia despite making a commitment in February to stop. Nestle
is condoning this destruction by not acting immediately to remove
all SinarMas products from its supply chains.
Deforestation is a major cause of climate change. It is so
rampant in Indonesia that the country is the world's third largest
greenhouse gas emitter. To avert catastrophic climate change we
must end deforestation - to begin with weneed an immediate
moratorium on destroying Indonesia's rainforests and carbon-rich
Watch the Kit Kat spoof video and ask Nestlé to stop using palm oil from destroyed forests!
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