Long Read | September 13, 2023
Standing firm
The Land and Environmental Defenders on the frontlines of the climate crisis
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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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 A world of online hate and lies: Mapping our investigations into social media platforms’ failure to tackle hate and disinformation
For many people, social media is not safe. Large social media companies employ a business model that disrupts our democracies, leading to real-world harm.
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Campaign Hub Land and environmental defenders: annual report archive
Since 2012, we have reported annually on killings of land and environmental defenders around the world.
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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
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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Article | September 15, 2023 A world of online hate and lies: Mapping our investigations into social media platforms’ failure to tackle hate and disinformation
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Long Read | September 13, 2023 Standing firm
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Article | September 06, 2023 Empty promises: Cargill, soy, banks and the destruction of Bolivia’s Chiquitano forest
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Article | September 05, 2023 Why should global financiers worry about agribusiness COFCO's deforestation links?
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Article | August 11, 2023 COP28 President’s ‘hypocritical’ oil firm failing to acknowledge full extent of their carbon footprint
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Article | July 02, 2023 Shell estimated to make hundreds of millions trading Russian gas since the Ukraine invasion
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Article | June 20, 2023 “We need to kill them”: Xenophobic hate speech approved by Facebook, TikTok and YouTube
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Article | June 12, 2023 New evidence of Facebook’s sexist algorithm
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 | October 27, 2022 Corporate greenwashing tactics to watch out for at COP27
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Blog Post | October 11, 2022 Everything you need to know about COP
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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
