… 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 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 …
… In 2017, Conservation International (CI) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had collaborated on building a software platform named the Wildlife Management Analyticssystem or WMA, were looking for a … The WMA, which made camera trap data on biodiversity easier to analyze, was being incorporated into a free, public, cloud-based website called Wildlife Insights. CI, however, …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who came to lodge, to … Teng and backed by MBS leadership as well as the resort's parent company, Las VegasSandsCorp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more resource-efficient. The resort … Teng and backed by MBS leadership as well as the resort's parent company, Las VegasSandsCorp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more resource-efficient. The resort …