Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | July 21, 2022 President Biden must declare a climate emergency and use his full powers to combat the climate crisis President Biden has yet to declare the patently obvious, that the world is experiencing a climate emergency. Global Witness is among over 1,000 organizations who have urged the US President to issue an emergency declaration that would unleash the full power of the presidential authority to address the greatest existential crisis the world is facing. Press release | April 25, 2022 Urgent US Legislation Needed to Protect World’s Forests Global Witness calls on US Congress to pass urgently needed legislation to end financing of deforestation, which is a leading cause of climate-critical forest destruction. Press release | Feb. 28, 2022 IPCC Report – The climate crisis is becoming “the humanitarian crisis of our time” New report underlines urgent action needed now on the climate crisis Press release | Aug. 9, 2021 IPCC report shows time has run out for incremental, tokenistic policies and empty words on the climate crisis Global Witness warns of “unthinkable catastrophe” unless urgent and systemic action is taken to keep fossil fuels in the ground, end deforestation and hold corporates to account for their impact on the environment and human rights Press release | Oct. 10, 2020 YouGov poll finds majority of British public want the UK to lead world on tackling climate change More than two thirds of the British public want to see the UK as world leader on climate change Press release | July 27, 2020 No loopholes, no exceptions – Government review must ban funding fossil fuels abroad Responding to encouraging media reports that Boris Johnson has ordered a review into the UK’s funding of fossil fuels overseas, Global Witness is calling on the UK Government to unequivocally announce such a ban, with no loopholes or exceptions Press release | July 1, 2020 New data shows in the past year UK supported over £750m in fossil fuels overseas GW analyses new UKEF data Press release | June 22, 2020 A letter to the Consumer Goods Forum: It’s Time to Stop the Fires and Deliver on ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ Commitments Companies should be delivering on crucial deforestation commitments. Press release | April 10, 2020 EU response to Coronavirus must not lock countries into a fossil fuel economy Global Witness warmly welcomes the public statement from Climate Ministers from 10 EU countries that we need to “withstand the temptations of short-term solutions in response to the present [Coronavirus] crisis that risk locking the EU in a fossil fuel economy for decades to come.” Press release | March 4, 2020 UK Government refuses to release emissions data of taxpayer-funded investment group – until after climate summit The data won't be released until at least 2021 Show Next 10