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May 27, 2022

What is climate disinformation?

Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time
Henry Peck / May 24, 2022

The offsets distraction from urgent climate action

Carbon offsets are being used to justify continued greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than meaningful climate action, they are a false solution to the climate crisis
Sara Cordovez López / May 24, 2022

How to delay climate action: false solutions and fossil fuels

As the climate crisis deepens, all eyes are on the fossil fuel industry. With pressure building, these profiteers of climate breakdown have shifted from denying science to peddling false solutions to delay action.
Alexandria Reid & Alexandria Robins / May 24, 2022

Biden’s Executive Order on forests can help stop Wall Street from financing deforestation

President Biden’s recent Executive Order called for a ‘whole-of-government’ approach to combating deforestation. Any incoming regulations must stop Wall Street from bankrolling forest destruction
Maxine Sackey / May 12, 2022

Alarm bells of authoritarianism sounding in the UK

The UK government’s proposed ‘Policing Bill’ erodes human rights and stifles the critical action needed to tackle the climate crisis
Louis Wilson / April 12, 2022

Planet v. Profit: Stories from the climate crisis

Introducing our new podcast series which delves into stories which make up the climate crisis – told by the people fighting for our planet.
Lela Stanley / April 8, 2022

Despite Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine, insurers enable the export of 40 million barrels of Russian oil

Between 24 February and 21 March 2022, more than 360 ships discharged a staggering quantity of fossil fuels loaded from Russian ports. The sale of these fossil fuels has helped fund Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine, which has killed thousands and created millions of refugees
Veronica Oakeshott / April 6, 2022

Pricey food, precious forests – the invasion of Ukraine, global food security and deforestation

As the growing global food crisis brews, there is a real risk of short-termist thinking on environmental measures such as the protection of climate-critical forests
Krystle Williams / April 5, 2022

Our 2022 Gender Pay Gap

Closing the gender pay gap starts with organisations re-educating themselves on their perception of women in the workplace and making a decision to make equality a priority. One of the ways that Global Witness does this is to publish its gender pay gap
Laura Furones & Francisca Stuardo / March 24, 2022

As democracy continues to deteriorate in Nicaragua, Indigenous peoples pay the price

Indigenous communities in Nicaragua have faced historical struggles to protect their ancestral territory from external invasion. The lack of state action and the political and human rights crisis that erupted in 2018 has aggravated their situation

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