Long Read | September 29, 2022
Decade of defiance
Ten years of reporting land and environmental activism worldwide
Challenging abuses of power to protect human rights and secure the future of our planet
Investigations and advocacy to achieve climate justice and safeguard civic freedoms. Find out more about our work
Top stories
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Interactive In numbers: Lethal attacks against defenders since 2012
Explore our full dataset to find out where killings of defenders are occurring, which industries are responsible, and how this violence has changed over time
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Blog post How Land and Environmental Defenders Protect the Planet, and How We Can Protect Them
If we want to avert a climate disaster and deliver real climate justice, governments and businesses must protect land and environmental defenders and ensure their voices are heard
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Article Amazon palm
Major international brands sourcing palm oil from Brazilian plantations linked to violence, torture and land fraud
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Pledge: Stand with land and environmental defenders
1,733 land and environmental defenders have been killed since 2012. Add your voice and let's stand with defenders who put their lives on the line to protect us from the worst effects of the climate crisis
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Blog post What is Climate Justice?
Climate justice as a concept recognises that, although global warming is a global crisis, its effects are not felt evenly around the world, nor is the blame for causing it evenly shared
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Blog post How can we hold companies responsible for the damage they cause?
Irresponsible companies are causing environmental destruction and human rights abuses around the world – but there is action we can take to stop them
About us
Our world is in crisis: climate breakdown, corporations too powerful to hold to account and democracies teetering on the brink.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Our goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. We want climate-critical forests and biodiversity to thrive and fossil fuels to stay in the ground. We want corporations to respect the planet and human rights, governments to protect and listen to their citizens, and the online world to be free from misinformation and hate.
Latest Investigations
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Long Read | September 29, 2022 Decade of defiance
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Report | September 28, 2022 Bankrolling deforestation: Central banks accused of financing environmental destruction
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Article | September 26, 2022 Amazon palm
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Report | September 22, 2022 US gas exporters grabbed a wartime windfall from Russia’s attack on Ukraine and dictated Biden’s response to the conflict
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Report | September 13, 2022 Burning the public: The hydrogen heating pipe dream
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Article | September 06, 2022 Heating homes with gas is expensive. Heating with hydrogen could cost double
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Article | August 24, 2022 French cash, Russian fuel, Ukrainian blood
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Article | August 15, 2022 Facebook fails to tackle election disinformation ads ahead of tense Brazilian election
Long Read | August 17, 2022
Annual report 2021: our case for change
2021 saw a redoubling of our efforts to work better in partnership with organisations, campaigning groups and activists from across the climate movement, but particularly across the Global South and most affected regions
Latest explainers
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Blog Post | September 01, 2022 The problem with hydrogen
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Blog Post | August 24, 2022 Ukraine, Putin, gas and sanctions - FAQs
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Blog Post | May 27, 2022 What is climate disinformation?
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Blog Post | February 04, 2022 Why ecocide should be an international crime
