Unilever goes Ape

I had an interesting day on Monday when Greenpeace decided to stage a peaceful protest at my office. We had a whole bunch of apes who climb all over our office building claiming our products which contain Palm Oil is causing deforestation... Just a pity they did not have all the facts. I think they were just targeting Unilever as we are a big name in order to get some airtime on the issue.

Unilever chair the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a wide-ranging coalition of organisations including OXFAM, WWF, plantation owners, and manufacturers and retailers. In November the RSPO agreed criteria for sustainable palm oil production. The problem is simply that demand of palm oil has exploded. This is due partly to growing demand from India and China and also due to the use of palm oil as a feedstock for biofuels in the energy sector. Click here for further information on Unilever's sustainable agriculture programmes.