Make Top Ramen Deforestation Free
Nissin Foods sells around 1.5 billion servings each year of its globally popular Top Ramen and Cup Noodle products, but the company has long suffered from a lack of transparency in its supply chain and Conflict Palm Oil in its products. Tens of thousands of concerned citizens across Japan, the US and the world are speaking up against Nissin Foods, and RAN is helping lead the way!
Rigged Games
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and its corruption scandals are directly tied to rainforest destruction: The Games’ timber supplier Korindo was “allegedly engaged in questionable deals” as they bought up rainforests in Indonesia to harvest timber and develop palm oil plantations. But to date, the Tokyo 2020 organizers have failed to disclose how much Korindo wood they used, rejected six complaints we brought against them over their use of Korindo wood, and only partially disclosed where the wood was sourced from.
South China Morning Post: Tokyo 2020 ‘fake sustainability’: new Olympics report attracts heat from orangutan and rainforest activists
“US-based Rainforest Action Nethawork (RAN) was one of more than 40 NGOs calling on the IOC in 2016 to demand organisers refrain from sourcing wood from endangered tropical forests in…
Joint NGO Statement on Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ “Fake Sustainability”
Joint NGO Statement on Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ “Fake Sustainability” Organizers called on to learn from & fix procurement failures linked to rainforest destruction in light of the Olympics postponement March…
Joint NGO Statement on Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ “Fake Sustainability”
Organizers called on to learn from & fix procurement failures linked to rainforest destruction in light of the Olympics postponement
Statement by Rainforest Action Network on the Devastating Climate Impacts of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
On September 18, Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers will converge at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to attend a meeting with the UNFCCC and other signatories of the…
Olympic Timber Scandal: Tokyo 2020’s Failure of Sustainability & Accountability
The opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is now less than one year away and the scandal continues over their use of tropical rainforest wood to build the venues.
NGO Statement of Concern on Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ revised Timber Sourcing Code
We, the undersigned NGOs, are deeply disappointed by the recent revision of Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ timber sourcing policy (1), which fails to end the use of timber associated with rainforest…
Stop the Olympics from destroying the rainforests
RAN and our partners — TuK Indonesia and WALHI — have been investigating a giant logging and palm oil company called Korindo, which has been cutting down rainforests in Indonesia. Korindo’s timber supply chain extends into some of the most biodiverse tropical ecosystems in the world, including the home of the critically endangered Bornean orangutan.
Over 100K People Demand “Zero Rainforest Destruction for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
March 28, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network (USA), +1 415 246 0161, laurel@ran.orgYuki Sekimoto, Rainforest Action Network (Japan), +81 3 3341 2022, yuki.sekimoto@ran.org Over 100K…