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  • / Oct. 22, 2021

    How much money are EU banks and investors making from deforestation and related human rights abuses?

    The EU is a key market for products linked to deforestation, but it is also home to big banks that are helping finance destructive agribusiness companies responsible for deforestation and associated human rights abuses

    Rainforest covers most of the Brazilian state of Acre
  • Richard Gardiner / Oct. 13, 2021

    New polling shows massive support for EU law to hold corporations to account

    New polling from YouGov shows that more than 80 percent of citizens from across multiple EU countries want strong laws to hold companies liable for overseas human rights and environmental violations

    Video Still on Displays of Wealth and Environmental Destruction UK 2021
  • Dominic Kavakeb / Oct. 4, 2021

    Calling Europe...Let's end the toxic spin of the fossil fuel industry

    New European wide petition launched to ban fossil fuel advertisements

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  • Nienke Palstra / Sept. 21, 2021

    Spotlight on Big Tech’s lobbying in Brussels

    We've launched a new Twitter bot, @EUTechWatch, to monitor Big Tech’s access to EU officials

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  • April 15, 2021

    Do people really want personalised ads online?

    Our new polling of social media users in Germany and France reveals people are uneasy about the way they are profiled and targeted with ads.

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  • Arianne Griffith / March 5, 2021

    Global voices join together to call for corporate accountability

    Hundreds of thousands of citizens from around the world joined growing calls for the EU to introduce a new, strong law to hold companies accountable

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  • Giulia Bondi / Feb. 24, 2021

    The EU needs to hold the financial sector to account if it is to end its complicity in global deforestation

    The EU has a key opportunity to show global leadership by addressing forest destruction, but it must take on the role of the financial sector which is bankrolling deforestation

    Maxland (PNG) Limited 'rubber plantation', Manus Island, PNG
  • Alice Harrison / Jan. 7, 2021

    We need new laws to stop companies profiting from murder

    We’re calling for EU laws that protect land and environment defenders, ensure justice for the victims of corporate abuse, and don’t let any companies off the hook

    At What Cost - Ramon
  • Rachel Owens / Dec. 9, 2020

    Bringing the voice of defenders to the EU

    We brought together EU policy makers and an environmental defender from the Brazilian Amazon to discuss problems faced by communities and the need for the EU to bring forward legislation to protect defenders from corporate harm

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  • Louis Goddard / Nov. 25, 2020

    Chart in focus: how safe are fossil gas pipelines?

    Data on pipeline accidents in Europe is kept under lock and key by EGIG – publishing it would lead to a more open conversation on the safety of fossil gas

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