STARBUCKS is one of those companies that most of the time it tries to do the right thing, like their employee college tuition program and sourcing their coffee according to CAFE standards, but sometimes they need a little push. Please sign this petition from +Us @ SumOfUs calling on Starbucks to set a time table to meet their RSPO commitment, just click the link.
Update: 194,552 of us have already petitioned Starbucks to stop buying conflict palm oil!
The good news -- Starbucks has changed its palm oil policy. The
bad news -- the coffee giant still hasn't told us how it will achieve
net zero deforestation.
Can you add your name to help push Starbucks to do the right thing?
In 2013, facing public pressure, Starbucks announced that it would be sourcing 100% sustainable palm oil by 2015… Well, 2015 has arrived and it looks like Starbucks will miss its deadline.
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Starbucks is the world’s largest coffee retailer -- and a purveyor of environment-wrecking palm oil.
Your
Starbucks coffee break is likely to be contributing to deforestation,
extinction of endangered tigers and orangutans, and abuses of workers
and communities.
While other industry giants such as McDonald’s, KFC, Dunkin’ Donuts
and Krispy Kreme have committed to cutting conflict palm oil from their
supply chains, Starbucks is taking an ostrich-like approach -- sticking
its head in the ground and ignoring this growing emergency, and the
concerns of its consumers.
In 2013, facing public pressure, Starbucks announced that it would be
sourcing 100% sustainable palm oil by 2015. That deadline has come and gone, and Starbucks needs to hear from us that we won’t wait any longer for responsible palm oil.
Tell Starbucks to cut conflict palm oil from its supply chain -- NOW.
Starbucks
is a recent member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO),
but the coffee giant has already failed to report mandatory data on its
palm oil sourcing to the overseeing body.
And unfortunately, even if Starbucks met RSPO criteria, it wouldn’t mean it had achieved gold standards.
The RSPO can’t guarantee that the palm oil it certifies is deforestation-free.
Deforestation is happening in palm oil plantations owned by RSPO
members, and NGOs and consumer companies also criticize RSPO’s inability
to regulate peatland destruction and greenhouse gas emissions.
What’s most remarkable about Starbucks’ lack of progress on palm oil
is that it’s in stark contrast to the company’s work on coffee.
Earlier this year, Starbucks announced that 99 percent of its coffee
is now ethically sourced, which it accomplished by developing and
implementing the Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices (CAFE), a
third-party verified program for farmers to ensure certain human rights
and environmental standards are met.
Through its CAFE initiative, Starbucks actually reduced
deforestation in its coffee supply chain. Why is it so hard to do the
same for palm oil?
Tell Starbucks to meet its goal of 100% sustainable palm oil urgently.
The past few months have been a pivotal moment for industry leaders
such as McDonald’s and KFC who have adopted sustainable palm oil
policies following campaigns by SumOfUs.
Hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members from all around the
world stood up to fast food giants -- signing petitions, making phone
calls, and showing up at events to make conflict palm oil a thing of the
past.
If it truly wants to make a difference in the palm oil sector,
Starbucks needs to go beyond RSPO -- something that dozens of companies have already done.
Just like we're doing with other industry leaders, we're
showing Starbucks that we're on the lookout, and won't let it get away
with making excuses or ignoring the problem. Whether it's standing up
for workers making LG-brand TVs, or asking British Columbia’s government
to charge a fair price for its ground water to Nestlé,
we are working together to hold corporations accountable for their behavior.
It’s time to amplify the movement to transform the palm oil industry and make sure that Starbucks is the next domino to fall.
Tell Starbucks to adopt a sustainable palm oil policy.
Thanks for all that you do,
Kaytee, Fatah, and the team at SumOfUs
