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Vancouver, Canada \u2013<\/strong> Today Greenpeace Canada activists peacefully gate-crashed a gathering of hundreds of CEOs and senior managers of leading global brands to call out their role in destroying forests and contributing to the climate crisis.<\/p>\n Minutes before the opening plenary of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Global Summit, Greenpeace climbers scaled the event venue and unfurled a banner which welcomed delegates with a spoofed CGF logo and the slogan \u201cFailing Forests. Failing the Climate.\u201d<\/p>\n Other climbers inside the venue dropped down from ceiling rafters over the reception hall where delegates gathered. They held a banner with a reminder that companies are \u201cStill Destroying Forests\u201d. The banner was branded with corporate logos of some of the largest players in the industry that are members of the CGF.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re living in a climate and ecological emergency and these companies have a choice: evolve their business or start winding down. Our children and the climate can\u2019t wait for another decade of fine words and no action. It\u2019s time to make big changes,\u201d said Melanie Dupuis, a volunteer climber from Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n Greenpeace is calling on companies at the summit \u2013 which include some of the world\u2019s largest consumer brands like Nestl\u00e9, Mondelez and Unilever \u2013 to declare a climate and ecological emergency, then cancel their sessions and use the time to agree on bold actions to end deforestation by 2020, as they promised to do almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n CGF members committed in 2010 to end deforestation by 2020 through \u201cresponsible sourcing\u201d of cattle, palm oil, soya and other commodities. However, a Greenpeace International report<\/a> released yesterday shows that at least 50 million hectares of forest will have been destroyed for commodities during the 10 years of broken corporate commitments leading up to 2020. [1] Roughly 80 percent of global deforestation is a direct result of agricultural production, releasing climate emissions equivalent<\/a> to Japan, Germany and the UK combined.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re here to send a direct message to the CEOs of these companies attending the summit today: you are failing to end deforestation, pushing species to the brink of extinction and feeding the climate crisis. Instead of running seminars on marketing to millennials, you should be agreeing the bold actions you will take to fix your deforestation problem. And that means fundamentally changing the way you do business,\u201d said Daniel Brindis, Forests Campaign Director of Greenpeace USA.<\/p>\n No single company \u2013 among more than 50 that Greenpeace contacted \u2013 could demonstrate meaningful effort to end links to deforestation. [2]<\/p>\n ENDS<\/p>\n