Endorsing Financial Institutions | Forest Footprint Disclosure

"Our participation in this project will help guide internal efforts to create transparency in our supply chain." Frank Henke, adidas Group
"As an industry leader, IOI Group has targeted to have all growing areas under its control RSPO certified by the end of 2011." Donald C. Grubba, IOI Group
"Gaining and maintaining market share by providing eco-labelled products is an opportunity that we recognise, FFD participation provides a welcome opportunity for us to share our values." Peter Gardiner, Mondi
"As a responsible company, we value good relations with suppliers and want to work with suppliers who acknowledge the need to focus on sustainability." Annette Hansen, Danisco
"I don’t see this as an exercise to showcase the good and criticise the bad, instead it’s an opportunity to help companies reduce their forest footprint." Jonathon Counsell, British Airways
"We have always managed Sainsbury’s forest footprint through working with suppliers and industry experts." Judith Batchelar, Sainsbury's
"L’Oreal recognises opportunities within our sector associated with sourcing and marketing sustainably sourced materials." Francis Quinn, L’Oreal
"We welcome the FFD project as an important step on the path to reducing deforestation and hope that our experience is useful to other companies." Lauren Orme, Marks and Spencer
"Carrefour Brazil, within the framework of the ABRAS, has called for credible third party audits to ensure beef products are not from deforested areas of the Amazon." Paul Rowsome, Carrefour Group
"Climate change and sustainability issues represent an important growth area for our business and we are keen to engage with other FFD participants." Mark Gough, Reed Elsevier
"FFD provides a useful forum for us to share our experience and our aim is to have 100% third party certified sustainable materials in our supply chain as soon as they are available." Pekka Tuovinen, Neste Oil
"Weyerhaeuser's reputation depends on managing its forests sustainably and otherwise purchasing wood from responsible sources." Cassie Phillips, Weyerhaeuser
"We actively support the role of FFD in improving transparency of company progress at all levels in the supply chain and in advancing sustainable practices." Freddie Woolfe, Hermes Equity Ownership Services
"We are committed to procuring biomass on a sustainable basis. Completing the FFD questionnaire has helped us to think more broadly about our procurement policy impacts." Nigel Burdett, Drax Power
"Deforestation has been losing us an estimated US$ 2-5 trillion of welfare benefits every year." Pavan Sukhdev, TEEB/Deutsche Bank

Disclosure

The FFD Project is now calling on more institutional investors to join in endorsing its disclosure request letter to companies. For a copy of the letter, and further information, please contact .

The disclosure request will make companies’ actions more transparent, and provide market analysis for investors through an annual disclosure report.

With more than US $5 trillion collective assets under management, the full list of investors currently endorsing the FFD Project comprises:

Active Earth Investment Management
Amundi Group
AXA Investment Managers
APG Asset Management
Arisaig Partners
Aviva
Benchmark Asset Managers, LLC
Boston Common Asset Management, LLC
The Children’s Investment Fund management (UK) LLP
Christian Brothers Investment Services
Climate Change Capital
Colonial First State Global Asset Management
Connecticut Retirement Plans And Trust Funds
The Cooperative Asset Management
Dexia Asset Management
Domini Social Investments LLC
EBG (Environmental Business Group) Capital
Ecclesiastical Investment Management
Environment Agency Active Pension Fund
ETICA SGR
F&C Investments
First Affirmative Financial Network
Generation Investment Management
Groupe Investissement Responsable Inc.
Hazel Capital
Henderson Global Investors
Hermes Equity Ownership Services
Impax Asset Management
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Invesco Perpetual
Legal & General Investment Management
The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF)
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Natural Capital Funds Management
Nelson Capital Management LLC
Newton Investment Management Limited
Norges Bank Investment Management
NEI Investments
Pax World Management LLC
Pictet & Cie
Portfolio 21 Investments
Rathbone Greenbank Investments
Robeco
Royal London Asset Management
Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd
SAM (Sustainable Asset Management AG)
Santander Brasil Asset Management
Schroders
Solaris Investment Management Limited
Statewide Superannuation
Storebrand
Sustainable Development Capital LLP
Threadneedle
Trillium Asset Management Corporation
Triodos Bank
VicSuper
Walden Asset Management, a division of Boston Trust & Investment Management Company
Zevin Asset Management