Climate Week NYC: Mighty Earth calls time on supermarkets linked to deforestation
NEW YORK (September 22, 2022) – Mighty Earth brought a peaceful and powerful protest to save our precious forests and the people and wildlife who live there, to the Forest Positive Coalition of Action meeting, taking place during New York Climate Week.
The coalition, part of the Consumer Goods Forum, is made up of many of the world’s biggest and most influential companies, with a combined market value running into trillions of dollars: Colgate-Palmolive, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, Carrefour and Tesco.
Carrying clocks and pushing shopping carts, the dancers demonstrated that time is running out for supermarkets and other consumer goods giants to clean up their supply chains.
The Amazon’s experiencing a record year for fires and urgent action is needed, now. The Forest Positive Coalition has just released its second annual report, pledging to improve transparency and introduce more regulation for all companies.
Our CEO and Founder of Mighty Glenn Hurowitz was on the streets of Manhattan with our activists and inside with industry leaders:
Watch Glenn’s report here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=445727674201657
Missing from the crunch talks yesterday was the co-chair of the Forest Positive Coalition, Alexandre Bompard who has promised “swift action” on deforestation and to “challenge suppliers, traders and farmers” to improve their practices:
Watch Mr Bompard promise action here:
CGF Forest Positive Coalition of Action: CEO Introduction
We know that meat from illegally deforested land is still ending up on Carrefour shelves: Land that rightfully belongs to the Indigenous Peoples who have lived there for thousands of years. As consumers we are dining on that deforestation, but it is not listed as an ingredient, because these big companies are not transparent about their suppliers and their illegal activities.
We would very much like to speak to Mr Bompard about his promises for “swift action” to find out how plans are progressing! Mr Bompard is one of the industry leaders who can stop deforestation in the Amazon and beyond.
