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PALM OIL BUYERS SCORECARD 2016


Measuring the sustainability of palm oil buyers

PALM OIL BUYERS SCORECARD 2016


Measuring the sustainability of palm oil buyers

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How are your favourite brands performing on palm oil?

Palm oil is in everything from margarine to lipstick, but growing it irresponsibly can devastate forests, wildlife, communities and the global climate.

We’ve scored 137 companies on their use of sustainable palm oil, which is grown without causing harm. See which brands are taking the right action and which are falling short or doing nothing at all.

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Refreshing companies.
Tesco
UK

Ahold
Netherlands

ABF
UK

Whitbread
UK
Super U
France

Danone
France

Aigremont
Belgium

Co-op Clean
Japan

FrieslandCampina
Netherlands

WhiteWave Foods
USA

Coop Switzerland
Switzerland

VVF
India

Unilever
Netherlands

Eurocash
Poland
Kraft Heinz
USA

Premier Foods
UK

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Why should you care about palm oil?

  • family having breakfast

    The last thing on your mind as you’re munching away on your buttered toast is a rainforest thousands of kilometres away. And yet, it’s quite likely that parts of your breakfast may have imperiled that fragile ecosystem.
    How exactly? Here’s the story.

  • orang utan with baby in Borneo

    If you’ve heard about palm oil (found in thousands of processed food, household and personal care products, from toast to lipstick), you probably think it’s bad news. Indeed when produced irresponsibly, it harms tropical forests and threatens wildlife such as orangutans, elephants and tigers.

  • haze caused by deforestation

    That’s because valuable forests are often destroyed to plant palm oil plantations, destroying the habitats of countless species while also threatening the well being and livelihoods of communities that depend on the forest and contributing to climate change. Sometimes the easiest way for companies or smallholders to clear forests in order to grow palm oil is to burn them, creating smoke and haze that also threatens the health of animals and people across the region. But did you know that there is another way? In fact, not all palm oil is bad.

  • palm oil field by the sea

    More and more companies that produce, trade or buy palm oil are trying hard to make sure they don’t harm tropical rainforests, wildlife and the communities that depend on them.

  • palm oil plantation worker

    They’re doing this by getting their business to be independently certified through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a non-profit association that aims to make all palm oil sustainable. When companies join the RSPO, they commit to grow and use palm oil produced in a way that is fair to people, ecosystems and to wildlife.

  • palm oil factory

    But there’s a problem. Not enough businesses in the palm oil industry are joining the RSPO, and of those that join, many are not using enough certified sustainable palm oil. Other companies have made commitments to use only 100% certified palm oil but are not moving fast enough to honour the promises they have made to their consumers.

  • sumatran tiger in a jungle

    WWF asks companies that use palm oil to start buying and/or using significant amounts of certified sustainable palm oil right away. The more companies that drag their feet, the more forests and endangered species are lost.

  • palm oil in daily products in a supermarket

    We need your help – to show businesses that you expect them to use certified sustainable palm oil in their products and to do their part to reduce deforestation, wildlife loss and conflicts with communities.

  • TAKE ACTION FOR RESPONSIBLE PALM OIL
    TAKE ACTION FOR RESPONSIBLE PALM OIL
    See WWF's recommendations to make the palm oil industry more sustainable.
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palm oil in daily products in a supermarket shelves
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palm oil fruits from the plantation
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orang utan with baby in the jungle
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