… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. However, … to other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impactsstem from …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades … targeted a GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social mediasites. Nestlé quickly bowed to the demands of Greenpeace and dropped GAR as a … down with Greenpeace and in often tense meetings hammered out an agreement that set forth guidelines for operating the company without contributing to deforestation. When GAR’s new …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon … period of time. While not solely limited to packaging, the CRL at point of purchase is an immediately visible marker of a company's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. In early 2009, … of its Tropicana-brand orange juice. While the company has extolled its work online and the media, it has refrained from putting the CRL on juice cartons. Today, the company continues …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol … efforts by various government agencies as well as PEMEX, by mid-2014 no ethanol had been incorporated into Mexico's gasoline supply. As Mexican policy makers looked at the country's …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of … to mill, refine, and export the substance. However, oil palm cultivation had created social tensions as many rural inhabitants claimed that large plantation companies had …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel and natural gas … to a cleaner, healthier and safer environment." The mission statement had led to a detailed corporate Code of Conduct, and Supplier Code of Conduct, all based on the company’s Vision …