By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue:
ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!Oil companies in the UK are big users of palm oil biodiesel: here.Swiss Francs Threaten Indonesian Rainforest
July 9, 2009
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=swiss_indo_finance
Major Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are to further fund Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), the world’s largest listed palm oil company, which currently produces 10 percent of Indonesia’s palm oil. A further 1.3 million hectares of land are to be developed for palm oil plantations with Swiss finance on the island of Indonesia Kalimantan (Borneo) and in Papua on the Western half of the island of New Guinea. Let these banks and the Swiss government know that their financing of rainforest destruction and climate change is completely unacceptable and will be protested until it ends.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=swiss_indo_finance
DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2009/07/alert_swiss_francs_threaten_in.asp
A campaign to boost the green credentials of the controversial product palm oil has been banned by the advertising watchdog: here.
The palm oil scandal: Boots and Waitrose named and shamed: here.
