John,

Milka and Oreo are filled with rainforest destruction – because its maker Mondelēz keeps sourcing palm oil from companies that are destroying critical orangutan habitat on their home island of Borneo.

Reports show how Indonesia’s sketchy mega agribusiness Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) has potentially deforested a peatland area more than 5 times the size of Manhattan to turn it into pulpwood plantations – yet Mondelēz refuses to drop all RGE-affiliated producers from its palm oil supply chain.

But as Mondelēz's largest shareholder meeting of the year is coming up, we have the perfect opportunity to force the chocolate giant into action. If we remind its leadership now that it’s still lagging behind industry peers like Unilever with its no deforestation commitments, it will listen – add your name:

Mondelēz: Clean up your supply chain – implement a no deforestation policy across all commodities now!

Palm oil and pulp and paper supply chains are murky and multi-layered. Oftentimes, it’s a handful of rogue shadow companies that are clear-cutting Indonesia’s old-growth forests – and that are formally operating independently, but de facto belong to one of the agribusiness giants, such as RGE in this case.

Mondelēz uses this as an excuse not to apply its own non-deforestation policy across all commodities, no matter palm oil, cocoa or pulpwood. The truth is: The candy giant is the only one from the major consumer goods companies like Unilever or Nestlé that doesn’t have a stand-alone, cross-commodity no-deforestation, no-peat expansion, no exploitation (NDPE) policy!

We can’t let this candymaker off the hook while plantations keep eating into the last remaining orangutan habitats on Borneo – driven by the corporate demand for more and cheaper palm oil and pulpwood. Let’s use the coming weeks ahead of Mondelēz's biggest meeting and hold its leadership accountable.

Mondelēz: No more destroyed orangutan habitat in your candy – clean up your supply chain now!

It took our community and partners years of campaigning to get mega corporations like PepsiCo to commit to stricter no deforestation policies, but it worked. These companies know that the world is watching, so let’s make it happen again with Mondelēz!