Ok, loads of people love Cadburys chocolate, but how much palm oil do they use? Well here is the reponse I got from them.
Thank you for your recent email.
The
production of palm oil can have significant and lasting environmental
and social impacts. Addressing these impacts in a constructive way
requires cooperation from producers (including farmers, cooperatives and
post-harvest processors), the food industry, governments and civil
society. Mondelēz International is committed to working with all of
these stakeholders to develop a viable supply of sustainable palm oil.
We do not buy crude palm oil - we buy fats derived from palm oil. Mondelēz International purchases less than 0.6% of worldwide production. We
are concerned about the potential long-term environmental and social
impacts of tropical deforestation. This is why we participate in the
Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to develop and enforce
standards for sustainable palm oil production.
The company is
also purchasing GreenPalm certificates and RSPO-segregated certified
sustainable palm oil to cover part of our use of palm oil. In 2011, this
constitutes approximately 50% of Mondelēz International's global palm
oil use (up from more 25% in 2010) and the company is looking to
increase these volumes going forward as sustainable palm oil becomes
more available. We expect to be able to cover 100 percent of our
purchases once the supply of certified palm oil accounts for about
one-third of the world’s total supply. We expect our suppliers to reach
this goal by 2015. We are working with the World Wildlife Fund to
evaluate options.
For
Cadbury Dairy Milk products, we’re covering all of its palm oil use
with GreenPalm certificates and also purchasing some segregated palm oil
in the UK and elsewhere. In November 2011, we were pleased that WWF
scored Cadbury highly (9/9) as part of their Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard
based on our current policies and plans for the future.
I do hope this answers your email and I thank you for taking time to contact us.
Kind regards
Christine Baldwin
Consumer Relations Administrator
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