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CONTROVERSY IRRESPONSIBLE PULP
PROCTER & GAMBLE’S
REPORT & PALM OIL SOURCING AND ITS IMPACTS ON PRIMARY
FORESTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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P&G sources pulp from clearcuts like these. Photo: National Resources Defence Council P&G sources palm oil from clearcuts like these. Photo: Pok Rie from Pexels
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble
(P&G) is now embroiled in a growing number
of controversies stemming from its sourcing of
wood pulp and palm oil.1 These controversies
implicate P&G in violating human rights,
degrading primary forests and endangering
threatened species for ubiquitous products
like toilet paper and soap. They also create
material and reputational risk for the company’s
brand equity, especially among socially and
environmentally conscious consumers and
investors.2 P&G has four key areas of controversy
linked to its sourcing of pulp and palm oil:
P&G sources from palm oil plantations that pose an
immediate threat to nearby habitats like this.
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CONTROVERSY 1:
P&G sources pulp from clearcuts like these. Photo: Kels Pitchenese, Eagle Lake First Nation in Canada
DESTROYING & DEGRADING PRIMARY FORESTS, INTACT FOREST LANDSCAPES
For its pulp and palm oil supply • Purchases hundreds of thousands of last place these trees should end up.
chains, P&G has failed to adopt and tons of fiber annually from clear- P&G uses zero recycled fiber in its
implement mandatory policies and cut logging in primary and old tissue products, while competitor
enforcement protocols that prohibit growth forests in British Columbia, Kimberly Clark uses an average of
deforestation and conversion of and key boreal forests in Ontario, nearly 30% with a goal to reach 50%
natural ecosystems, as well as Alberta, and Quebec, rather than recycled fiber by 2025.
halt expansion into Intact Forest adding recycled fiber to its single- • Sources palm oil from 22 Indonesian
Landscapes (IFLs), old growth and use name brand products such as producers engaged in on-going
primary forests. It has also failed Charmin toilet paper and Bounty peatland destruction, some under
to commit to time bound goals Paper Towels.3 Boreal forests store government indictment.
for reducing forest fiber in tissue massive amounts of carbon, and
products. For example, the company: single use tissue products are the
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CONTROVERSY 2:
P&G purchases palm oil from suppliers that dramatically impact farmers like this. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Alliance Network, Farmers of Jambi Province, Indonesia
VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS
In regions affected by P&G’s fiber • In Canada, some of P&G’s pulp linked to corruption as executives
and palm oil sourcing, the company suppliers in BC, Ontario and Quebec from its subsidiaries were sentenced
seems comfortable perpetuating have Free Prior and Informed to prison for bribing government
colonialist practices rather than Consent (FPIC) policies that fail to officials.
working to build respectful enforce non-compliance issues or • A September 2020 investigation
relationships with frontline and offer transparency to the Indigenous by the Associated Press found that
Indigenous communities, affected people who depend on these more than one-hundred current
rights holders and the civil society forests, one of the fundamental and former workers from two
organizations supporting them. P&G rights laid out in the United Nations dozen palm oil companies had been
does not require its suppliers to Declaration of Indigenous People. cheated, threatened, held against
demonstrate that adequate policies, • In Indonesia, Astra Agro Lestari their will or forced to work off
standard operating procedures and (AAL) is implicated in ongoing land insurmountable debts. Others said
independent verification mechanisms conflicts in rural areas in West and they were harassed by authorities
are in place to guarantee that Central Sulawesi. AAL’s subsidiaries and detained in government
Indigenous Peoples and traditional allegedly seized land from the facilities. In Malaysia, P&G’s palm
communities’ rights to free, prior, local communities without their oil suppliers4 like FGV and Sime
and informed consent (FPIC) are consent and then felled forests to Darby are linked to forced labor and
respected. P&G has also failed make way for oil palm plantations. human trafficking and U.S. Customs
to commit to Zero Tolerance Impacted communities allege that and Border Protection has blocked
for Violence, Harassment and the company has criminalized local palm oil imports from them.
Intimidation. Examples of supplier community members who have
violations include: • P&G has refused to meet with
resisted the takeover of their lands, impacted communities in conditions
leading to the wrongful incarceration that guarantee their security and
of several land defenders. Another anonymity, and arbitrarily picks the
supplier, Golden Agri Resources, is communities it consults.
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CONTROVERSY 3:
P&G sources pulp from clearcuts like these.
PUTTING THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES AT RISK
P&G continues to source from • In Quebec, Resolute Forest • In British Columbia, P&G sources a
suppliers that degrade critical caribou Products is likely sourcing wood range of companies impacting old
habitat, putting threatened caribou from the Pipmuacan caribou range growth and primary forests in the
populations already on a trajectory of in Quebec, where approximately province. Some of the logging takes
decline, at further risk. For example: one-hundred caribou eke out an place in critical caribou habitat
• In Ontario, Domtar is likely existence in habitat that is already including various endangered
sourcing wood from the Sydney 68 percent disturbed, primarily herds.
caribou range, where the caribou from logging, and being more and
population is fewer than one- more disturbed every year.5
hundred animals and declining past
the point of no return.
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CONTROVERSY 4:
P&G sources pulp from clearcuts like these. Photo: Kels Pitchenese, Eagle Lake First Nation in Canada
TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY
P&G has failed to develop the • Despite the weaknesses of the • Failed to meet the demands of
systems necessary to create industry-controlled Roundtable on shareholders, 67% of whom voted
transparency and public Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), P&G in favor of a resolution put forward
accountability within P&G’s pulp and still fell far short of its commitment by Green Century Equity Fund
palm oil supply chains. The company: to achieve one-hundred percent calling on the company to report on
• Relies on third party certification RSPO certification of all palm oil how and whether it can eliminate
systems to provide oversight and processing facilities. Less than 10 deforestation and intact forest
accountability for its pulp supply percent of P&G’s palm and palm degradation from its supply chain.7
instead of developing effective due kernel oil sourced in 2019 was
diligence systems and infrastructure RSPO certified.6
that ensure intact primary forests
and threatened species habitat are
not in their supply chains.
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P&G’S FAILURE TO DISTANCE
ITSELF FROM IRRESPONSIBLE
SUPPLIERS--SUPPLIERS THAT
VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS,
DEGRADE PRIMARY FORESTS
AND ENDANGER CONCLUSION
THREATENED
Consumer goods giant Procter &
Gamble has knowingly and willfully
refused to take full responsibility for
its supply chain and failed to manage
the reputational risk associated
SPECIES--HAS
with its suppliers of pulp fiber and
palm oil. P&G’s failure to distance
itself from irresponsible suppliers
that violate human rights, degrade
primary forests and endanger
BECOME A
threatened species--has become a
material risk to P&G and its investors.
The ongoing controversy regarding
its pulp fiber and palm oil sourcing
MATERIAL RISK
will continue to tarnish its brands,
including Charmin, Bounty, and
Head & Shoulders.
P&G has the resources to grow
its capacities and lead its sector in
TO P&G AND ITS
truly innovative ways. It simply lacks
the will and follow through. These
controversies will continue to haunt
them unless they make the kinds of
INVESTORS.
changes that the planet and future
generations need.
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BODY OF REPORT
For years, mounting evidence indicates that Procter
& Gamble is sourcing forest products from suppliers
implicated in environmentally irresponsible logging
and human rights abuses. Last October, 67 percent of
P&G’s shareholders responded by voting in support
of a shareholder resolution urging the company
to eliminate deforestation and forest degradation
from its supply chain.8 Rather than demonstrating
leadership by distancing itself from irresponsible
suppliers and adding recycled fiber to its toilet paper
and other tissue products, P&G responded to the
shareholder revolt with a misleading marketing
campaign that failed to include a clear plan to end its
reliance on irresponsible and high risk suppliers.9
P&G’s management has chosen to retreat to tired old
talking points about “replanting trees” and outsourcing
supply chain oversight to third-party certifications.
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This leaves P&G right where it began—highly
P&G sources pulp from clearcuts like these.
Photo: Kels Pitchenese, Eagle Lake First Nation in Canada exposed to suppliers that degrade intact primary
forests and critical habitats and fail to adequately
protect the rights of local and Indigenous peoples,
particularly in Canada’s boreal forest and in palm oil
operations in Indonesia and Malaysia.
The growing understanding of deforestation, forest
degradation, and human rights controversies
means most of P&G’s shareholders know that such
ineffectual steps cannot prevent the destruction
of intact primary forests and threatened species
habitat and guarantee respect for human rights.
More importantly, P&G’s obfuscation and inaction
creates significant reputational and financial risks that
undermines socially responsible investment funds that
hold P&G stock.
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P&G CONTROVERSY
safeguards, putting at risk the is likely sourcing wood from the
rights of Indigenous communities, Pipmuacan caribou range in Quebec,
IN CANADA
critical habitat for a federally listed where approximately 100 caribou
threatened species, and an important eke out an existence in habitat that
Procter & Gamble purchased 523,900 storehouse of carbon. And yet is already 68 percent disturbed,
metric tonnes of wood pulp from Procter & Gamble continues to primarily from logging, and being
Canada in 2019-20 to make its source its pulp from these companies more and more disturbed every year.19
flagship brands Charmin toilet paper to make single-use products like Why is so much critical habitat
and Bounty paper towels.11 This toilet paper while boasting about the of a federally listed threatened
pulp is made from industrial-scale sustainability of its operations. species being destroyed by logging?
logging operations that are driving Because the Ontario and Quebec
the loss and fragmentation of forests IMPERILING THREATENED CARIBOU governments have allowed too much
in boreal and mountain ecosystems POPULATIONS logging to take place in federally
across Canada. The boreal forest, According to a recent analysis by designated critical caribou habitat.
in particular, is a climate-critical NRDC, these three companies Inexplicably, Ontario has exempted
ecosystem known as the “Amazon of sourced an average of 9.4 million logging operations from prohibitions
the North” that stores more carbon cubic meters of wood from boreal in its 2008 Endangered Species
per hectare than just about any other forests in northern Ontario and Act against destroying habitat of
forest on Earth.12Both boreal and Quebec.15 This wood comes from caribou and other species at risk.20
mountain forests are populated by boreal forest that is carved up by In 2018, the Quebec government
hundreds of Indigenous communities roads that allow for industrial-scale announced that it would not protect
and also home to an array of logging, the primary threat to the the Val D’or caribou herd, which
wildlife species, including dozens of health and persistence of Canada’s excessive logging and road building
woodland caribou herds that were threatened woodland caribou had reduced to just 18 individuals,
listed as threatened or endangered populations. because it would be too expensive.21
by the federal government in 2012. Much of the wood supplying the In late 2019, the Quebec Ministry of
Federal guidelines also established mills that make P&G’s pulp comes Forests, Fauna and Parks revoked
that these threatened caribou will from forest units that encompass a policy that protected 46,000
have a much greater chance at legally designated critical habitat hectares of critical caribou habitat so
long-term survival if their range for Canada’s threatened woodland that it could be logged.22
habitat is 65% intact. However, P&G caribou populations. To maintain and
refuses to commit to ensuring that its recover these caribou populations, FAILED CERTIFICATION SCHEMES
suppliers adhere to this science-based Canada’s 2012 caribou recovery In practice, this leaves only forest
threshold - essentially cementing their strategy indicates these forests certification programs as the primary
acceptance of key threatened species must remain at least 65 per cent means of protecting caribou habitat
habitat in their supply chains. This flies undisturbed (i.e. only 35 per cent can outside of protected areas. Forest
in the face of the 85% of Americans be altered by logging and wildfires). certification programs are, in theory,
that want greener toilet paper.13 Aditya Birla Group, Domtar and supposed to voluntarily impose
Resolute Forest Products likely are stricter forest management practices
ONTARIO AND sourcing wood from several caribou
ranges (which each harbor several
than required by law. Only one,
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
QUEBEC
Each year, Procter & Gamble
local populations) that are already
approaching or beyond the 35 per
certification, has standards that have
the potential to raise the bar above
cent disturbance thresholds, beyond status quo industrial clearcut logging.23
purchases approximately 500,000 which caribou herds will continue to But P&G still finds a way to cut corners.
tonnes of pulp made from industrial decline. In Ontario, Domtar is likely
forest-clearing in primary boreal P&G has publicly committed to a
sourcing wood from the Sydney “preference” for wood pulp from
forests in Ontario and Quebec. caribou range, where the caribou
These mills are owned by powerful Forest Stewardship certified suppliers.
population is fewer than 100 animals Yet its commitment is misleading.
companies such as Aditya Birla and declining past the point of no
Group, Domtar (Paper Excellence)13 The company exploits loopholes in
return.16 Their forest habitat is 64 the FSC system, resulting in more
and Resolute Forest Products, some percent disturbed, almost twice
of the largest producers of pulp and than half of its North American
the sustainable limit.17 The caribou wood pulp (5.6 million cubic
paper in the world, and they are key population in the Churchill range (45
suppliers of pulp to U.S. markets. meters) coming from non-FSC-
percent disturbed) is also fewer than certified forest units. That fiber is
Unfortunately, these companies 100 and declining, and the habitat is sourced through some of the worst
consistently fail to implement already 35 per cent disturbed.18 logging practices in North America,
critical social and environmental Resolute Forest Products, likewise, including excessive spraying of
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toxic chemicals that poison people, FSC-certified.26 In the Domtar- All of these inconvenient facts
water and wildlife, destruction of managed Trout Lake Forest Unit, about P&G’s sourcing of pulp from
critical habitat for threatened and which is almost all critical caribou Canada’s boreal forests are likely
endangered species, and massive habitat, logging has increased by 431 only going to get worse. Global pulp
clearcuts in old-growth forests. percent in the last six years.27 and paper giant Paper Excellence,
There is no requirement to obtain These three companies are just headquartered in Richmond, BC,
free, prior and informed consent the tip of the iceberg. Many more recently purchased Domtar. Domtar
from Indigenous People whose land timber companies also operate in is now owned by a private company
is being transformed into clearcuts and cut down Canada’s boreal forest, run by a family that is notorious
and/or plantations, and there are and decades of scientific research for both human rights abuses and
not adequate grievance systems for has made it very clear that wide deforestation.29 Transitioning from a
impacted communities.24 scale industrial logging continues publicly-traded company to a private
to reduce the size and resilience one could limit both transparency
of Canada’s caribou herds, despite and accountability and make it even
more difficult for P&G to make
“CARIBOU ARE, SADLY, the fact they have been listed as
“threatened” for two decades.
good on its unfulfilled promises of
sustainability.
VERY SENSITIVE TO INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
HUMAN DISTURBANCES, The continued decline of threatened
caribou herds isn’t the only problem
BRITISH COLUMBIA
In BC, industrial logging of intact
AND WE ARE from such unsustainable logging
activity in the boreal forest. Several
forests is the primary reason for
the massive losses of old growth
DISTURBING CARIBOU First Nations have traditional
territories and treaty rights in the
forests and steep declines in caribou
MORE AND MORE,”
populations over recent decades,
boreal forest areas being logged particularly the threatened southern
for wood pulp. Aditya Birla Group, mountain population of woodland
DR. JUSTINA RAY, Domtar and Resolute Forest Products caribou. Southern mountain caribou
WILDERNESS CONSERVATION SOCIETY may have Free Prior and Informed once roamed suitable habitat in
CANADA PRESIDENT AND SENIOR SCIENTIST Consent (FPIC) policies, but they all of SW BC, but today, only 17
fail to provide transparency, ensure subpopulations hang on in a fraction
compliance, and enforce non- of their historic range. Despite being
Reliance on inadequate certification compliance for the Indigenous listed under Canada’s Species at Risk
schemes explains why caribou people who depend on these forests, Act in 2003, logging, as well as other
habitat is being destroyed by P&G’s one of the fundamental rights laid human activities and forest fires,
suppliers. Of those public forest units out in the United Nations Declaration has extirpated six subpopulations of
that are majority (i.e. more than 50 of Indigenous People. southern mountain caribou30 and
per cent) caribou range habitat, only three additional population units are
Eagle Lake First Nation, for
10 per cent (425,700 of 4.3 million now all but guaranteed to vanish from
instance, is working to protect its
cubic meters) of the wood sourced the face of the earth in the near future.
traditional lands on the Farabout
each year by Aditya Birla Group, In 2018, a scientific analysis indicated
Peninsula in Eagle Lake, which is
Domtar and Resolute Forest Products that 18 of 23 (78%) local population
slated to be logged by non-FSC-
combined is from FSC-certified units were declining and 22 of 34
certified Dryden Forest Company
forests.25 This means that the vast (65%) subpopulations were less than
Ltd. There are no caribou here,
majority of the wood being sourced 100 individuals.31
but it’s an unspoiled refuge of
from critical caribou habitat is from
biodiversity full of thousands of The central reason for these tragic
non-FSC-certified forests, which puts
irreplaceable Indigenous cultural and declines and disappearances is
the caribou herds in these areas at
archaeological sites dating back 7000 the destruction of caribou habitat,
significant risk of continued decline
years. “The peninsula is sacred to us,” primarily by road building and clear-
and extirpation.
wrote Chief Arnold Gardner to the cut logging of old growth and intact
Resolute Forests Products, for Ontario Minister of Natural Resources primary forests. More than 900 sq km
instance, sources 2.6 million cubic and Forestry in 2018. “Any disruption of southern mountain caribou critical
meters of wood from non-FSC- of these sites … by the Dryden Forest habitat was logged in BC during the
certified public forest units that are Management Company would be five years after it was identified in 2014,
majority caribou habitat, and none of a violation of the Ontario Heritage an estimated 50% increase in the area
the wood sourced by Aditya Birla and Act” and “would violate Indigenous of critical southern mountain caribou
Domtar in public forest units that are rights and would be an action of habitat logged. Logging in old growth
majority caribou habitat is remarkable cultural insensitivity.”28 forests and caribou habitat continues
10EAGLE LAKE FIRST NATION CASE STUDY
In the heart of Ontario’s boreal forest, Migisi Sahgaigan (Eagle Lake) First Nation is a
rural Anishinaabe Ojibwe First Nation of about 700 people in northwestern Ontario,
situated along the northeast shores of Eagle Lake, approximately 25 km southwest of
Dryden.
Historically, their livelihood consisted of fishing, hunting, trapping, gathering,
harvesting wild rice, and horticulture. Today, the Eagle Lake First Nation’s economy is
based primarily on trapping, forestry and manufacturing, as well as employment in the
service sector.
Cultural activities are as important to Eagle Lake society as economic affairs, and
include pow-wows, ceremony, sharing circles, arts & crafts, traditional healing and
Elders’ activities. And at the center of it all is the land and the water they have occupied
for thousands of years.
“Everything that makes us up as people comes from the land,” says Miles Pitchenese
who works for ELFN Lands and Resources. “Our language comes from the land. We go
out there to look for answers. The trees, rocks, water have spirits, too, and understand.
We have to stop and listen and understand, and we have to make decisions not only
for us but also our great great grandchildren.”
Several decades ago, members of the community started to notice logging crews and
equipment, and large clear cuts soon followed. Logging companies cut trees right up
to the edge of waterways and fly over spraying herbicides with helicopters, practices
that demonstrate a blatant disregard for health, safety and sovereignty of Eagle Lake
First Nation. Now they are trying to protect their traditional lands on the Farabout
Peninsula in Eagle Lake, which is slated to be logged by non-FSC-certified Dryden
Forest Company Ltd.
“The biggest problem for the community is that irresponsible logging is changing how
community members interact with the land,” says Daniel Morriseau, also with ELFN
Lands and Resources. “It reduces what areas the people can interact with the land
safely. “Cutting to shore impacts fish habitat, water quality, changing wetlands and
canoe routes, and wild rice harvesting areas. It also affects food and medicinal plant
gathering and how far community members have to go to harvest.”
The forest destruction leaves “a sadness you can’t explain,” Morriseau laments.
“You can’t understand why [the logging is] happening. It’s a tragic feeling to know
that the impact on plants and animals will have a severe impact on the people. It’s
heartbreaking.”
Morriseau knows there are better, more sustainable forestry practices, and would like
the logging companies to work with Eagle Lake First Nation to implement the best
possible practices: no cutting to shore, no spraying, no clearcutting and protections
for sacred sites and areas of intact forest.
“The practices now are unsustainable,” he says. “P&G needs to hold itself to a higher
standard. Some forests are FSC certified, some are not FSC at all. FSC has the highest
standard for environmental and social. Those standards are not being adhered to.”
WILL P&G HONOR THEIR RIGHTS AND WISHES?
11to threaten and extirpate southern and pending cutblocks, as per Interfor is the largest sawmiller in the
mountain caribou populations.32 government data, clearly overlaps region around Celgar: it mills over one
Procter & Gamble admits on its with caribou habitat (see Map 1). million cubic meters of logs annually
website to buying pulp from BC.33 This includes critical habitat of at two facilities alone, accounting for
They purchase an estimated 25,000 multiple southern mountain caribou over 40% of the lumber production
to 50,000 metric tons per year of herds east of their mills in Prince capacity in the Selkirk Natural Resource
BC northern bleached (NBSK) kraft George: George Mountain, Narrow District.44 Both of these mills are major
pulp from industrial logging in BC, Lake, North Caribou and the Hart wood chip suppliers to Celgar,45 and
or roughly 15% of the total volume Ranges. The George Mountain herd one is located immediately adjacent to
of NBSK pulp exports from BC to the is already likely extirpated,38 and Celgar and supplies all its
US.34 While the lack of transparency the Narrow Lake herd is down to co-product wood chips to the pulp
in pulp supply chains makes it difficult approximately 40 individuals.39 The mill. The majority of logs for these
to know with certainty from whom North Cariboo herd has declined sawmills come from Interfor’s nearby
P&G buys it’s BC pulp, a review from more than 275 in 2005 to about forest operations, which overlap
conducted by Stand.earth Research 210 in 2016,40 while the Hart Ranges extensively with mountain caribou
Group of customs data, trade herd, the largest of the mountain habitat (see Map 2) and includes
statistics, investor presentations, caribou ecotype, has experienced many endangered southern mountain
corporate filings, company websites a 45% decline since 2006; the last caribou herds.
and government data indicates pulp population estimate in 2016 found Overall, of the 909 sq. km. of critical
mills owned by Canfor and Mercer just 375.41 And still Canfor logs in southern mountain caribou habitat was
likely constitute supplies the vast critical caribou habitat identified as logged in the five years between 2014-
majority of BC softwood pulp to the part of the recovery plan meant to 19, which had been legally identified
US market, with most other BC mills prevent these herds from declining under Canada’s Species at Risk Act
focused on Asian markets. further, including in old growth forest. (SARA).46 This includes forest habitat of
According to an upcoming analysis the recently extirpated (locally extinct)
being conducted by Stand.earth
Research Group, Canfor and Interfor “THE THREATS TO South Selkirk herd47 located to the east
of Celgar (see Map 2).
(Mercer’s primary chip supplier - see
below) are among the top loggers of
CARIBOU CRITICAL P&G’S ROLE
old growth forests in the province,
and are active in several mountain
HABITAT HAVEN’T To minimize its responsibility, P&G
claims that lumber is really the driver
caribou herd ranges.35 Like their peers
in Ontario and Quebec, these forestry
REALLY CHANGED. of logging, not tissue products.48
However, selling wood chips for
companies have been certified
by one or another third-party
IT’S UNSUSTAINABLE pulp is so lucrative that even the
logging industry regularly refers to
certification schemes. (SFI, PEFC, LOGGING IN PRIMARY it as a “co-product” and not a “by-
product.”49 Furthermore, according
FORESTS, MOSTLY IN
FSC).36 Unfortunately, like Ontario
to the government’s own data, BC
and Quebec, the lack of meaningful
pulp mills consumed about 5.8 million
government regulations means
these third-party certifications have WESTERN CANADA, AND cubic meters of whole trees in 2019,
representing over 26% of their total
been wholly ineffective at protecting
old-growth forests, critical caribou UNSUSTAINABLE OIL fiber input.50 For some mills such
as Mercer Celgar, the figure is even
habitat and other environmental
values in BC. AND GAS DESTRUCTION higher, as noted above (i.e. 33%).
Regardless of whether the fiber used
CANFOR OF CRITICAL HABITAT.” by pulp mills comes directly from
forests (whole trees) or indirectly
Canfor’s logging operations around HEBBLEWHITE
Prince George are the primary (wood chips from sawmills), BC pulp
supplier for their NBSK pulp mills mills and the demand for pulp by
(Northwood and Intercontinental), CELGAR AND INTERFOR companies like P&G are a key driver of
Canfor claims that 100% of In 2019, Mercer’s Celgar mill, logging in caribou habitat, despite the
their supply comes from non- in Castlegar, BC, processed fact the federal recovery strategy for
controversial sources, avoiding approximately 2.3 million cubic meters woodland caribou indicates no more
wood harvested from areas that of fiber, made from both whole logs critical habitat should be disturbed.
threaten high conservation values (33%) and wood chips (67%).42 Celgar’s P&G’s Box Elder Mill in Utah and Cape
such as endangered caribou.37 chips are sourced from 30 different Girardeau Mill in Missouri are among
However, Canfor’s currently active suppliers (primarily sawmills) in the the P&G paper mills buying BC pulp.51
southeast part of the province.43 These mills produce Bounty and
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Canfor’s Prince
Canfor's
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Canfor Active & Pending Cutblocks
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Data Sources:
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caribou habitat Threatened
Trace Occurrence Data
BC Catalogue,
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National Geographic
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Mercer's Celgar Pulp Mill's
Interfor Logging Tenure
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sourcing from Interfor's logging
M
Caribou Herd Risk Status
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BC Government
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Data Catalogue,
Trace Occurrence National Geographic
RESEARCH GROUP 14Charmin brand tissue products. P&G Approximately 85 percent of all plantations in Indonesia’s protected
has not done enough to ensure that palm oil comes from Indonesia Forest Zone. More than 75,000
these brands do not source from and Malaysia, where environmental hectares of GAR’s plantations -- ,
high-risk supply chains. It matters very devastation and attendant labor and more than 15% of its total plantation
little if Bounty or Charmin is made human rights abuses are common.55 area -- appears to be devoted to
from certified pulp, or if the pulp mills Large, often shady companies set unpermitted oil palm production.
that supply P&G claim to reduce their fires to remove primary forests Corruption and related governance
environmental harm because if we and make room for increasing issues also pose significant risks. In
pull focus from the just cutblocks that numbers of huge monoculture 2019, three executives from GAR
are planned and look across all the palm plantations. This process subsidiaries were convicted and
harvesting that has already occurred, warms the planet, destroys the only imprisoned for bribing local officials
we see that there is very little left of remaining habitat of endangered to overlook the lack of permits and
mountain caribou habitat that has Sumatran tigers, Sumatran rhinos and extensive water pollution.59
not already been impacted, while the orangutans, driving them towards
risks to their habitat and their future extinction. Local people who have
continue to compound. been making a subsistence living for
generations are kicked off the land
“THE USE OF FORCED
P&G SCANDAL IN without their consent, denied the
right and opportunity to practice their
LABOR IN THE
SOUTHEAST ASIA traditional livelihoods, and threatened
with violence—even killed.
PRODUCTION OF SUCH A
Palm oil is the world’s most widely
consumed vegetable oil and is used Despite its no-deforestation policy, UBIQUITOUS PRODUCT
in everything from food to cosmetics
and biofuels, including P&G’s Head
P&G is among a host of consumer
goods companies and palm oil ALLOWS COMPANIES
& Shoulders shampoo and Gillette
shaving gel. More than 70 million
traders that continue to purchase
palm oil linked to illegal deforestation TO PROFIT FROM THE
tons are produced annually, and in Indonesia and Malaysia.56 P&G’s
supply chains continue to be linked
ABUSE OF VULNERABLE
WORKERS…. ”
that number is predicted to more
than triple by 2050.52 Unfortunately, to palm oil operations that have been
palm oil production is one of the subject to court action, administrative
most poorly regulated and harmful sanctions and other government BRENDA SMITH, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
industries in the world, responsible intervention, all of which have failed COMMISSIONER OF CBP’S OFFICE OF TRADE
for massive deforestation of primary to resolve the problems. HTTPS://WWW.CBP.GOV/NEWSROOM/
forests, upending healthy ecosystems
INDONESIA NATIONAL-MEDIA-RELEASE/CBP-ISSUES-
and destroying endangered animal DETENTION-ORDER-PALM-OIL-PRODUCED-
P&G continues to source from as
habitat, exploiting workers, and
violating Indigenous Peoples and
many as 22 palm oil producers FORCED-LABOR-MALAYSIA
and traders engaged in ongoing
local communities’ land rights.
deforestation and peatland Astra Agro Lestari, another P&G
Deforestation driven by palm destruction, at least six of which are supplier, is implicated in ongoing land
oil production also releases vast also facing government sanctions conflicts in rural areas in West and
quantities of carbon into the for their role in the massive 2019 Central Sulawesi. AAL’s subsidiaries
atmosphere. The tropical forests fires that scorched Indonesia’s have allegedly forcibly seized land
destroyed for palm oil plantations are forests and peatlands.57 from the local communities without
some of the most carbon-rich in the their consent and then felled
Two specific cases from one
world. The slash-and-burn clearing forests to make way for oil palm
Indonesian province serve to illustrate
and subsequent burning of forests plantations. Impacted communities
the problem. As of late 2019, P&G
and the conversion of swamps allege that the company has
continued to source palm oil from PT
releases large amounts of carbon criminalized local community
Marita Makmur Jaya, which cleared
dioxide and methane. For example, members who have resisted the
2,100 hectares of peat and peat
forest fires in Indonesia in 2019 takeover of their lands, leading
forest in 2019, and from Tunas Baru
released 708 million tons of CO2.53 to the wrongful incarceration of
Lampung, which cleared a reported
The wastewater from palm oil 2,900 hectares of peat forest in 2019, several land defenders. More than 30
refineries is another huge source of both in South Sumatra.58 complaints have been made related
methane; the methane produced to intimidation and incarceration
In Central Kalimantan, Golden Agri of community members, as well as
by a single pond of palm refinery
Resources (GAR), another P&G regarding deforestation, flooding,
wastewater has the same annual
supplier, unlawfully operates oil palm and landslides as a result of the
climate impact as 22,000 cars.54
15conversion of intact forests to palm they were harassed by authorities and serious labor rights violations on
oil plantations. detained in government facilities. One Malaysian palm oil plantations.67
In Jambi Province, AAL has cleared of these companies was FGV Holdings The U.S. Department of Labor has
forests for oil palm plantations Berhad, one of Malaysia’s largest palm highlighted the widespread use of
on lands traditionally owned, oil companies and a joint venture forced labor in the Malaysian palm oil
occupied and used by Orang Rimba partner and major palm oil supplier industry since 2010.
communities. Land expropriation to P&G. The allegations against FGV
involved violence, intimidation, were so egregious the U.S. Customs FAILED CERTIFICATION SCHEMES
and Border Protection banned the As in Canada, P&G relies on third-
poisoning and forced evictions.60
importation of FGV palm oil.65 party certification programs to
PT Setia Agrindo Lestari, one of
uphold its stated policies of no
the largest palm oil producers in
deforestation, the protection of
Indonesia, obtained a government
environment permit in 1995, which
was renewed in 2006 without
“SUSTAINABILITY wildlife habitat and upholding the
rights of workers and Indigenous
any consultation and no prior IS MUCH BROADER people. In particular, P&G requires
its palm oil suppliers to “ensure no
THAN JUST SPECIES
agreement with the Orang Rimba.61
deforestation and no development
Deforestation and displacement
on peatlands” and to “protect,
by industrial palm monocultures
have undermined the Orang Rimba PROTECTION. conserve, and enhance the habitats
for wildlife and endangered species
traditional way of life based on
gathering, hunting and small- IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE’S that call forests their home.” It also
commits to “source our palm and
scale rotational farming. Some
communities have been displaced LIVELIHOODS; palm derivatives in a manner that
respects workers and indigenous
onto their remaining ancestral forest
lands within Bukit Duabelas National IT’S ABOUT THEIR peoples’ rights.”68
Park,62 while more than 750 remain
as landless squatters on their own WELL-BEING; However, the overwhelming
evidence in Indonesia and Malaysia
land. Affected communities have
lost traditional sources of food and
IT’S ABOUT indicates that these certification
schemes do not adequately regulate
income, and have lost their forests
and seen their sacred sites destroyed.
GREENHOUSE GAS supply chain transparency for
sustainable palm oil, and continues
P&G has refused to meet with directly EMISSIONS; to allow corruption, exploitation
of migrant labor, forced labor and
impacted communities and their
civil society supporters. Prominent IT’S ABOUT CLEAN, human trafficking (i.e. human rights
abuses), as well as mass deforestation
Indonesian civil society groups have
repeatedly requested a meeting with HEALTHY WATER; and the destruction of critical habitat
for endangered species.69
P&G -- without P&G’s main supplier
(Wilmar) present. P&G has refused, IT’S ABOUT HAVING P&G has been a member of the
saying they would only meet with
impacted groups and communities ACCESS TO A DECENT Roundtable on Sustainable Palm
Oil (RSPO) since 2010. The RSPO
with Wilmar present.
WAGE.” claims to have “developed a set of
environmental and social criteria
MALAYSIA MATTHEW STRUEBIG, TROPICAL which companies must comply
In Malaysia, palm oil plantations cover CONSERVATION SCIENTIST AT THE with in order to produce Certified
more than 15 percent of the country’s Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO). When
land area and occupy 63 percent of
UNIVERSITY OF KENT IN THE UNITED they are properly applied, these
the farmland.63 P&G’s palm kernel oil KINGDOM HTTPS://WWW.LIVESCIENCE. criteria can help to minimize the
supply chain is the company’s single COM/PALM-OIL.HTML negative impact of palm oil cultivation
biggest supply chain.64 Here, P&G’s on the environment and communities
palm oil suppliers have been linked to in palm oil-producing regions.” P&G
forced labor and human trafficking. This is only the latest evidence in a has committed to use only RSPO-
A September 2020 investigation by long-standing saga of widespread, certified palm and palm kernel oil in
the Associated Press found that more ongoing forced labor conditions its products by the end of 2021.70
than 100 current and former workers on FGV plantations. In 2015, the
Wall Street Journal exposed serious In its latest annual report, P&G states
from two dozen palm oil companies it sourced a total of 188,034 tonnes
had been cheated, threatened, held human rights and labor abuses
on FGV’s plantations.66 In 2014, of palm and palm kernel oil in 2019.
against their will or forced to work off Despite a commitment to achieve
insurmountable debts. Others said Finnwatch released a report finding
16100 percent RSPO certification of all It gets worse. “The vast majority of
palm oil processing facilities by 2016, palm oil is traced only as far back
less than 10 percent of its palm and as the mill where it’s processed, not
palm kernel oil sourced in 2019 was to the field where it’s produced.
RSPO certified.71 And it is far from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of
likely that the other 90+ percent will Indonesian NGOs that includes the
be certified by 2022. WWF – the same organization that
Even if P&G does achieve its goal spurred palm oil certification – said
of sourcing 100 percent RSPO- in a 2016 report that ‘mill traceability
certified palm and palm kernel oil, [on its own] wastes time and money
this alone will not allow it to meet without offering a solution to the
its stated policy objectives. After all, issues of illegal products entering the
Golden Agri Resources, one of P&G’s supply chains.”73
Indonesian palm oil suppliers that It’s clear that P&G can’t rely solely on
unlawfully operated in protected the RSPO to ensure that its stated
forests and bribed local officials to sustainability goals—no deforestation,
look the other way, is a member of protecting critical wildlife habitat for
RSPO. endangered species, respecting the
Numerous investigations and rights of working and Indigenous
allegations indicate that RSPO- people—are achieved. Instead, it
certified suppliers continue the must conduct its own due diligence
unlawful and unethical practices that and take a more proactive role
it’s “environmental and social criteria” in ensuring that it’s suppliers and
are supposed to curtail. In 2016, the supply chains are not involved in
Environmental Investigation Agency deforestation and human rights
concluded that RSPO is “woefully abuses.74
substandard” and “in some cases …
colluding … to disguise violations”.
The Guardian reported in 2019
that “a product can earn a ‘certified
sustainable’ label even if 99% of the
palm oil it includes came from freshly
deforested land.”72
17P&G MISLEADS ITS CUSTOMERS
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, Procter & Gamble likes to portray itself as a
sustainable company that cares about people and the environment. But instead of
holding their suppliers accountable, P&G relies on misinformation to convince its
investors and customers that its products don’t cause deforestation, destroy wildlife
habitat or infringe on the rights of local and Indigenous people.
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
Wood pulp and water are The wood pulp P&G uses
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
100% of our wood pulp P&G outsources
“ingredients found in nature” for its Charmin, Bounty and is certified by a leading responsibility for social and
and “sourced from forests.” Puffs products is sourced third-party certification environmental impacts by
from logging 100 percent system ensuring forests are hiding behind third-party
virgin primary forests. responsibly managed certification schemes
Instead of using recycled that do not guarantee
fiber, P&G promotes sustainability or responsible
logging that destroys and sourcing. Some of these
degrades wildlife habitat, certification schemes do
threatens the land and not provide adequate
way of life of Indigenous protections for intact
peoples, and robs the primary forests, critical
planet of one of its more habitat of threatened
important defenses caribou populations, or
against climate change. ensure the free, prior
The alternative is to use and informed consent of
recycled fiber, which has Indigenous peoples.
the least impact on forests,
water, climate and wildlife,
which P&G has so far
refused to do.
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
P&G ensures all our P&G sources all its palm
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
We’re Acting with Urgency P&G recently announced
suppliers have the and palm kernel oil from to Reduce Emissions its “Climate Transition
necessary policies and Malaysia and Indonesia, Action Plan” to make P&G
procedures in place to and relies on the emissions “Net Zero” by
ensure responsible sourcing Roundtable on Sustainable 2040. Yet their climate
of palm oil, palm kernel oil, Oil Palm certification targets exclude emissions
and their derivatives. scheme to ensure from their tissue and
responsible sourcing. paper towel products,
However, only a small selectively excluding
portion of its products them from the products
are RSPO certified, and their targets apply to. By
the RSPO has proven comparison, Kimberly-
incapable of ensuring that Clark has indicated that
palm oil production does it will expressly include
not result in deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions
destruction of wildlife from natural forest fiber
habitat, and human rights into its scope 3 supply
abuses. chain target
18P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
All forest certification P&G promotes the logging
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
For every tree we use, at Replanting trees does not
schemes adequately industry’s misleading least one is regrown. fully compensate for the
protect forests and greenwash about forest environmental impact
Indigenous people certification programs. of cutting down primary
Not all forest certification forests. Clearcutting does
schemes are created permanent damage to
equal. P&G “prefers” to forests that replanting
use Forest Stewardship does not fix—scarring
Certified wood pulp, the the landscape and
most credible and effective changing the fragile
certification scheme, but balance of organisms and
less than 50 percent of microorganisms in the soil,
its pulp is FSC chain of which reverberates all the
custody certified. Instead, it way up the food chain.
relies on other certification Boreal trees grow very
schemes, such as the slowly, and it takes decades
Sustainable Forest Initiative to centuries for newly
and the Programme for replanted trees to capture
the Endorsement of Forest the carbon that mature
Certification systems, trees do. Clearcutting in
which do not adequately the boreal forest allows
protect high conservation the release of enormous
forests, wildlife habitat, or amounts of greenhouse
the rights of Indigenous gases stored in the boreal’s
peoples. Even FSC is an carbon rich soils. In much
imperfect and inconsistent of the boreal, replanting
tool to protect forests and operations are not proving
people’s rights. P&G must successful at replicating
commit to ensuring that forests that resemble the
suppliers adhere to 65% biodiverse, carbon-rich
habitat range intactness ancient forests that were
thresholds for caribou and removed and research
additional due diligence in Ontario shows that
to provide an assurance of deforestation in this key
responsibly sourced wood boreal forest province is
products. happening at a rate that is
seven times greater than
the reported deforestation
rate by forestry for all of
Canada - underscoring
that deforestation in other
provinces is also likely
being under-reported.75
19P&G SPIN THE TRUTH
We’re committed Some of the energy
P&G SPIN THE TRUTH In October 2020, the
We are committed to the
to purchasing 100% Procter & Gamble is responsible management world’s largest asset
renewable electricity sourcing to meet its goal of the world’s forests and managers, including
globally by 2030. is from biomass. Biomass our conscientious use of BlackRock and State Street,
means burning forests forest products. voted overwhelmingly
to create energy. P&G to urge P&G to eliminate
partnered with Exelon to deforestation and intact
build a new 50-megawatt forest degradation from
biomass facility in Albany, its supply chains, making
GA, one of the largest it the first ever forest-
biomass energy plants related shareholder
in the U.S. P&G is telling proposal to pass. Instead
its customers that this of taking the necessary
is part of its renewable action to improve
energy portfolio, but its sourcing of forest
environmental benefits products, the company
from burning biomass doubled down on selling
instead of coal depends a myth of sustainability
on the specifics of the to consumers. Though a
feedstock sourcing and recent Charmin ad touts
how the facility is operated. the brand’s commitment
It is improbable that this to “Protect, Grow, and
facility’s feedstock will Restore” forests, P&G’s
consist entirely of sawmill recent announcements
residuals and forestry and PR campaigns have
waste. The carrying more closely resembled
capacity of forests in the a “Deflect, Distract, and
area is approximately 25 Ignore” approach, once
tons/acre: at least 400 again choosing spin over
acres of Georgia forests meaningful action to
must be cut daily to feed protect climate-critical
this plant. The volume forests.
alone is troubling enough,
but burning green wood
chips can produce as
much pollution and carbon
as coal. This facility is, at
best, questionable in terms
of sustainability.76 Burning
trees to produce electricity
releases up to 50 percent
more carbon dioxide per
kilowatt hour than burning
coal.77, 78, 79
20RECOMMENDATIONS
The following actions by P&G will HUMAN RIGHTS
begin to address the environmentally • Respect the human rights of First halt expansion into Intact Forest
and culturally unsustainable and Nations and frontline communities. Landscapes and primary forests.
unethical controversies linked to its
• Require suppliers commit to obtain • Embrace FSC forest certification:
products, and eliminate the financial
free prior, and informed consent Any virgin forest fiber in tissue
risks posed by the significant gap
(FPIC) from Indigenous Peoples and products must be responsibly
between its current choices and its
frontline communities. sourced, but also certified by the
stated values.
• Publically commit to only source Forest Stewardship Council (FSC),
• Address the concerns of the only acceptable third-party
from suppliers that adhere to the
shareholders, impacted certification system. Commit to
practice of obtaining free, prior, and
communities, and organizations work with Canadian suppliers to get
informed consent (FPIC).
representing millions of concerned all of their management units FSC
citizens. • Require all suppliers to prove certified and in compliance with the
that adequate policies, standard new FSC Canada standard in a way
• Adopt and publish aggressive, time-
operating procedures and that excludes ranges with a 35% or
bound leadership commitments.
independent verification greater disturbance level.
mechanisms are in place to prove
that Indigenous Peoples and THREATENED SPECIES: PROTECT CARIBOU
traditional communities’ rights to • Protect boreal caribou habitat.
free, prior, and informed consent Publicly commit to avoid sourcing
(FPIC) are respected in existing from Canadian boreal caribou
and new forest-risk commodity ranges with a 35% or greater
production operations on their disturbance level. Commit to
lands and traditional territories. responsible, caribou-safe fiber
• Commit to Zero Tolerance sourcing that doesn’t put caribou
for Violence, Harassment and and First Nations at risk.
Intimidation, as proposed by The • Eliminate all suppliers that
Geneva Declaration.80 degrade or destroy critical caribou
• Accept all requests to meet one- habitat. Replace or establish an
on-one with communities affected exit plan for P&G’s suppliers that
by irresponsible palm oil and fiber continue to aggressively log
suppliers. intact Canadian boreal forests
and who are not compliant with
PROTECT FORESTS 65% habitat intactness thresholds
• Stop sourcing from primary forests. that threatened caribou (reindeer)
populations require for long-term
• Publicly support new protected areas.
survival, as defined by Canadian
• Continue to invest in alternative Federal scientific analysis.
fibers and work with credible
• Adopt a clear standard that P&G
third parties such as Closed Loop
will, within 6 months, no longer do
Partners to help drive system
business with logging companies
change as a pathway to reduce
that harvest in critical caribou range
virgin forest fiber. Commit to
habitat beyond 35% disturbed.
reduce forest fiber in tissue
products by 50% by 2025. Replace • Require suppliers to qualify by
virgin fiber with recycled81 and having plans that meet or beat
alternative fiber and invest in Canadian federal caribou science
research to overcome any technical standards within 1 year.
or cultural barriers.82 • Require suppliers provide proof
• Adopt and implement mandatory every quarter that they are not
policies and enforcement harvesting in any remaining critical
protocols for P&G’s pulp and caribou habitat.
palm oil supply chain that prohibit
deforestation and conversion of
natural ecosystems as well as
21• Actively and publicly advocate on • Disclose independent verification These actions will enable P&G to
behalf of forest protection and mechanisms that are in place to step into a leadership role and
indigenous sovereignty with the ensure that suppliers can prove demonstrate that it is making
Canadian government. fulfillment of FPIC rights. progress on implementing a suite
• Inform the Canadian Federal • Create a grievance process that of credible actions, against clear
and Provincial governments that provides a clear method for timelines, which have been designed
their lack of action on boreal individuals and organizations to to immediately address its impacts on
caribou recovery and caribou file complaints over violations of primary forests and endangered and
science standards outlined by P&G’s supply chain policies and threatened species habitat; uphold
their own government scientists procedures and timelines within human rights; and hold suppliers
is now putting P&G’s continued which P&G will respond to credible who do not comply with P&G’s no
business relationship with logging complaints. This program should deforestation and human rights
companies in Canada at risk. include a publicly accessible policies accountable.
grievance tracker with a minimum
ADDRESS THE CLIMATE IMPACTS OF PULP
AND PALM SUPPLY CHAINS
of 60 months history.
• Disclose names and contact
CONCLUSION:
• Analyze, disclose and cut information for P&G pulp suppliers,
greenhouse gas emissions from We share Procter & Gamble (P&G)’s
and publish the results of a forest goal of minimizing the company’s
land use impacts (including forest footprint analysis for its pulp
sourcing) by 50% by 2025. impacts on globally important
supply chain and palm oil and forests, the climate, and human
palm kernel oil supply chains in
BE TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE Malaysia and Indonesia.
rights. We believe progress is
• Stop outsourcing 100% of supply possible at P&G, as is true corporate
chain oversight of fiber and palm • Publish a regular progress report on leadership. The current context of the
oil supply chains to third-party the enforcement of P&G’s policy climate emergency, the biodiversity
certification systems. Implement to prohibit deforestation and Intact crisis, and ongoing human rights
a publicly transparent in-house Forest Landscape and primary violations associated with high-risk
process to evaluate and manage forest degradation in its pulp and commodities in P&G’s supply chains
suppliers, including robust non- palm oil supply chains including: requires the company to act with
compliance protocols with clear • The pulp and palm oil suppliers that urgency and deliver auditable results.
metrics that trigger suspension or have been independently verified as
termination of bad actors and sub- compliant with P&G’s policies and
standard suppliers. No Deforestation, No conversion
• Immediately replace irresponsible and degradation of natural
suppliers that fail to meet P&G’s ecosystems and Peatlands, and No
standards or that use violence, Exploitation production practices.
intimidation or coercion against • Fulfillment of P&G’s commitment to
local communities. The measure eliminate pulp supply from critical
of any commitment, policy or caribou habitat
protocol is the extent to which it
• An update on the implementation
results in P&G taking action against
of its deforestation and forest
irresponsible suppliers and replacing
degradation policy, as well as the
them with those that are aligned
company’s progress toward its
with P&G’s values and policies.
commitment to reducing forest
• Publish the steps P&G will take fiber in its tissue products.
to consult affected communities
and to manage allegations and
complaints. Immediately sever
relationships with suppliers that
use violence or intimidation against
local communities.
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