Long Read | September 10, 2024
Missing voices
Land and environmental defenders faced brutal silencing tactics in 2023, with a record year for killings in Colombia and criminalisation cases across the world
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
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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 Land and environmental defenders protect our planet – but they cannot halt climate change without access to justice
For more than a decade, we've been documenting and celebrating the hard-fought wins of land and environmental defenders worldwide. Together, their efforts not only help to prevent environmental destruction and human rights harms by companies, but also help to protect the environment from the worst effects of climate change.
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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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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.
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 10, 2024 Missing voices
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Article | August 29, 2024 Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries
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Article | August 22, 2024 One football field of tropical forest a day destroyed by farms supplying JBS
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Article | August 21, 2024 New Labour MPs take over £45,000 from oil and gas lobbyists
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Article | August 16, 2024 Oil services group SLB digs deeper in Russia
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Campaign | August 05, 2024 TotalEnergies produced enough oil and gas since Paris Agreement to cause half a million heat deaths
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Article | August 02, 2024 ESG funds funnel millions into deforestation-risk company
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Article | July 31, 2024 No ifs, many bots? Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X, generating over 4 billion views since the UK general election was called
Long Read | July 24, 2024
Annual report 2023: Challenging polluters, championing people
Marking three decades of protecting people and planet
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Blog Post | July 10, 2024 Transition minerals: A climate solution that could cost the earth
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Blog Post | February 21, 2024 What is the Cerrado – and why is it important for our planet?
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Blog Post | November 17, 2023 What is carbon capture and storage? CCS easily explained
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Blog Post | June 22, 2023 Rainforests explained: where they are, what they do, and why they’re crucial for our planet
