| Demand big businesses eliminate deforestation. Food or forests? We shouldn't need to choose. The production of beef, soy, palm oil, and wood products account for the majority of tropical forest destruction. Urge corporations to ensure their products do not cause deforestation. | ACTION ALERT
Demand Big Businesses Eliminate Deforestation
Dear UCS supporter,
Tropical forests are disappearing at an astonishing rate. The results? Massive amounts of global warming emissions and the destruction of local communities and wildlife habitat. The majority of tropical forests are cut down to make room for the production of just four goods: beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products.
Companies have the power to change this. The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has promised to achieve net zero deforestation by 2020. As a group of more than 400 businesses with almost three trillion dollars in sales collectively, the CGF and its member companies could have a tremendous impact on eliminating deforestation. Yet many of the member companies have failed to release their own pledges and plans for how to eliminate deforestation. Thus, they fail to guarantee their products are deforestation-free.
Demand corporations ensure their products do not cause deforestation nor the massive amounts of global warming emissions, biodiversity destruction, and human rights violations that accompany it.
Join me in standing up for our forests. Together, we're putting an end to tropical deforestation.
 Sincerely,
Miriam Swaffer
Senior Outreach Coordinator
Tropical Forest & Climate Initiative
Union of Concerned Scientists
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