What is Avon doing in their business to help end deforestation?
Avon has a long heritage of making a difference, including a commitment to environmental stewardship throughout our business enterprise. Avon has robust environmental management processes and goals in critical areas ranging from water conservation to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Avon is also making a special effort to develop meaningful policies focused on areas that are material to the company. Because Avon is a significant consumer of paper products, the company is positioned to influence both supply and demand, and thus contribute to the development of environmental solutions that conserve, protect and restore forests. To this end, in 2010 Avon launched the Avon Paper Promise to reduce the demands on forests, support sustainable forestry and protect biodiversity and ecosystem integrity that drives long-term social and economic benefits to communities. In 2011, recognizing that palm oil plantations are a factor in deforestation, Avon announced a company-wide global co