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Agribusiness giant tells suppliers to stop cutting down forests
3/31/15
Today, the state of New York announced that, after negotiations with the global agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, ADM will adopt a no-deforestation policy for soy and palm oil.
This is really freaking good news, and it comes at a critical time. There is some evidence that, after years of progress, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is increasing again. Meanwhile, people have been cutting down the forests just outside the Brazilian Amazon in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and in Brazils Cerrado region where there has been less pressure to stop. The move from ADM will provide a clear warning to farmers who are considering the costs and benefits of clearing more land.
ADM laid out a specific set of commitments and a plan for implementation. This announcement is the latest in a cascade of no-deforestation commitments set off when Wilmar, the largest palm-oil company, pledged to stop buying from suppliers who cut down rainforest. ADM owns 16 percent of Wilmar....
...The New York State Common Retirement Fund had asked ADM to take this step. The retirement fund holds $83.1 million in ADM stock. A group of NGOs Forest Heroes, Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the National Wildlife Federation, SumOfUs, and NRDC had written to ADM urging the company to make its business more sustainable. Nordic investors and Green Century Capital Management also asked ADM to take action.
http://grist.org/food/agribusiness-giant-tells-suppliers-to-stop-cutting-down-forests/
3/31/15
Today, the state of New York announced that, after negotiations with the global agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, ADM will adopt a no-deforestation policy for soy and palm oil.
This is really freaking good news, and it comes at a critical time. There is some evidence that, after years of progress, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is increasing again. Meanwhile, people have been cutting down the forests just outside the Brazilian Amazon in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and in Brazils Cerrado region where there has been less pressure to stop. The move from ADM will provide a clear warning to farmers who are considering the costs and benefits of clearing more land.
ADM laid out a specific set of commitments and a plan for implementation. This announcement is the latest in a cascade of no-deforestation commitments set off when Wilmar, the largest palm-oil company, pledged to stop buying from suppliers who cut down rainforest. ADM owns 16 percent of Wilmar....
...The New York State Common Retirement Fund had asked ADM to take this step. The retirement fund holds $83.1 million in ADM stock. A group of NGOs Forest Heroes, Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the National Wildlife Federation, SumOfUs, and NRDC had written to ADM urging the company to make its business more sustainable. Nordic investors and Green Century Capital Management also asked ADM to take action.
http://grist.org/food/agribusiness-giant-tells-suppliers-to-stop-cutting-down-forests/
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Agribusiness giant tells suppliers to stop cutting down forests (Original Post)
RiverLover
Apr 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. Yay for stockholder activism
which is pretty much the only way to get a company to do anything, when companies have co-opted government.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)2. Funny, I just posted an OP about that very subject
A Quiet Corporate Coup - Instead of lobbying, lobbyists are now becoming congressional staff
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026449818
Maybe we should be reaching out more to stockholders for change in government, since they're the ones with the true power.
Until we can GET $$$ OUT OF POLITICS. (Support Wolf_PAC efforts!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026449818
Maybe we should be reaching out more to stockholders for change in government, since they're the ones with the true power.
Until we can GET $$$ OUT OF POLITICS. (Support Wolf_PAC efforts!)
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. Hell yes.....
daleanime
(17,796 posts)4. Great!
Now let's have every one pick up the ball and run with it.
mopinko
(70,078 posts)5. i got a feeling that the indiana boycott
is sending some shivers up some corporate spines.