- The Consumer Goods Forum Forest Positive Coalition of Action
includes members from 17 consumer goods companies with a collective
market value of US$1.8 trillion
- The Forest Positive Coalition of Action launches at Climate
Week 2020 on Tuesday 22nd September 10:00 EST
PARIS, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as part of
Climate Week 2020, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) officially
launched the Forest Positive Coalition of Action, including 17
global consumer goods brands, retailers and manufacturers that will
work together and use their collective voice to accelerate systemic
efforts to remove deforestation, forest degradation and conversion
from the key commodity supply chains of palm oil, soy, and paper,
pulp and fibre-based packaging, and drive transformative change
across the industry.
The Coalition, led by the respective company CEOs and
co-sponsored at the CGF Board level by Carrefour and Mars,
Incorporated, brings the world's largest consumer goods brands
together with a collective market value of US$1.8 trillion. Its ambition is to
utilise its collective reach and knowledge, global networks
and resources, to engage and collaborate with producers, suppliers
and traders, as well as governments and civil society, to advocate
for forest positive solutions. The Forest Positive Coalition for
Action members are:
- Carrefour
- Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Danone
- Essity
- General Mills
- Grupo Bimbo
- Jerónimo Martins
- Mars, Incorporated
- METRO AG
- Mondelēz International
- Nestlé
- P&G
- PepsiCo
- Sainsbury's
- Tesco
- Unilever
- Walmart
The Forest Positive Coalition of Action has committed to act in
the following key areas:
1) Engage with suppliers and traders to ask they implement
Forest Positive actions across their entire commodity
operations;
2) Join forces to address forest conservation challenges
in key production landscapes;
3) Encourage governments and stakeholders to create an
enabling environment for forest conservation;
4) Ensure transparency and accountability by regularly
reporting on progress.
As part of their commitments, members of the Coalition will work
constructively with governments – both in producer nations and
importing nations – to encourage them to put in place practical
measures to support a forest positive future. The Coalition will
advocate and support practises to change behaviours and processes
at a macro-level to support global forests and not one specific
area.
Grant Reid, President &
CEO, Mars, Incorporated and CGF Board Co-Sponsor of the Forest
Positive Coalition, said, "We believe forest protection is a
driver of economic growth, not a sacrifice to growth. Forest
protection provides healthy ecosystems and supports productive
landscapes and resilient communities. In the wake of the COVID-19
crisis, we must ensure that efforts to protect forests are part of
the global response. This response requires all actors with an
interest in ending deforestation and who are committed to being
part of the solution to come together".
Alexandre Bompard, Chairman
and CEO, Carrefour and CGF Board Co-Sponsor of the Forest Positive
Coalition, said, "We are actively changing our model in
order to become forest positive businesses. We are fully committed
to engaging supply chain actors, taking action on the ground and
working collectively to catalyse change. Multi-stakeholder action
is critical, particularly political engagement at the national and
regional levels, as is strong support from the investment
community".
The Forest Positive Coalition for Action will be officially
announced as part of Climate Week 2020 where members of the
Coalition, UK and Indonesia
government representatives and the Tropical Forest Alliance will
meet to discuss and take questions from the public on the
Coalition, its ambitions and the roadmap to reaching the
Coalition's goals.
Wai-Chan Chan, Managing
Director, The Consumer Goods Forum said, "Deforestation
continues to be a critical issue facing our planet today. Our event
at New York Climate Week will showcase exactly how our Coalition is
committed to on-the-ground actions that deliver impact at scale and
will explain how we intend to be successful. We are also bringing a
variety of voices to the table to ensure we engage from the get-go
and effectively listen to the concerns of those fighting to
mainstream the issue of deforestation and who support nature-based,
innovative solutions. We are in this fight together".
The event, held on Zoom, will run from 10:00 EST to 11:00 EST on Tuesday 22nd
September 2020. Please sign up here:
cwnyc.tcgfforestpositive.com
For more information on the Climate Week 2020 event, please
visit: https://www.climateweeknyc.org/event/breaking-chains-cgf-forest-positive-coalition-action
For more information on the Coalition, its members and its
aims, please visit: www.tcgfforestpositive.com
About The Consumer Goods Forum:
The Consumer Goods Forum ("CGF") is a global, parity-based
industry network that is driven by its members to encourage the
global adoption of practices and standards that serves the consumer
goods industry worldwide. It brings together the CEOs and senior
management of some 400 retailers, manufacturers, service providers,
and other stakeholders across 70 countries, and it reflects the
diversity of the industry in geography, size, product category and
format. Its member companies have combined sales of EUR 3.5 trillion and directly employ nearly 10
million people, with a further 90 million related jobs estimated
along the value chain. It is governed by its Board of Directors,
which comprises 58 manufacturer and retailer CEOs. For more
information, please visit: www.theconsumergoodsforum.com.
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