Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire supports the Planet over Profit campaign
We have joined Leicester Friends of the Earth to call for parliament to act now and introduce a new law to hold companies to account for harm to people and the environment. Greedy UK compare are wrecking the world’s forests through their international supply chains. Last year was the hottest on record. Global deforestation, one of the leading causes of climate breakdown continues to rise.
Some companies buy palm oil and timber from areas where rainforests have been destroyed. Others finance the soy trade that forces people from their land. Their products end up in our shops and on our plates without us realising it.
UK law must be changed to stop them getting away with it.
Representatives from local groups met with MP Shokat Adam to call for a new Business, Human Rights and Environment act.
Shockat Adam, MP for Leicester South, has already signed the Good Business Matters Pledge. On 5th June, we asked him to act on his pledge and back the campaign for a new law to hold UK companies to account for harm to people and the environment. Read more about our meeting with Shockat Adam on the Leicester Friends of the Earth blog and in the Leicester Mercury.
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