"Global Consumer Brands Lag on Deforestation, Human Rights Protections in 2024 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard," 6 December 2024

Global consumer goods companies remain critical drivers of deforestation and human rights violations in supply chains, particularly in producing forest-risk commodities like palm oil, soy, and paper used in packaging. Our annual Keep Forests Standing Scorecard holds some of the world’s largest consumer brands accountable for contributing to deforestation, land rights violations, and increasing threats facing human rights defenders. The ten corporations evaluated are all implicated in ongoing forest destruction and human rights violations worldwide, with only one company, Unilever, barely receiving a passing grade.

Our 2024 scorecard shows that the brands — Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrero, Kao, Mars, Mondelēz, Nestlé, Nissin Foods, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever — remain far from implementing paper promises to address the growing climate crisis. Below is a summary of how each brand scored in this year’s scorecard...

Of all the ten consumer brands, only Unilever scored a C, the same score it managed last year...

Ferrero, Mondelēz, Nissin Foods, and Procter & Gamble rounded out the bottom of the ten brands we assessed...

The Keep Forests Standing campaign urges global companies to take immediate, concrete actions to stop the expansion of commodities they source into the world’s last rainforests and ensure protections for Indigenous communities fighting to protect their lands from corporate exploitation.