Greenpeace published a report last week, entitled Palm oil: Cooking the Climate explaining many of the largest food and fuel companies risk climate change disaster, by driving the demand for palm oil and biofuels grown on the world's greatest peat deposits.
'Unilever, Cargill, Nestlé, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, as well as all leading UK supermarkets, are large users of Indonesian palm oil, much of which comes from the province of Riau in Sumatra, where an estimated 14.6bn tonnes of carbon - equivalent to nearly one year's entire global carbon emissions - is locked up in the world's deepest peat beds.'
