Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil gas Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Natural resource governance Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade 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 | June 23, 2022 Banks and financiers back beef giant JBS to the tune of almost $1bn despite links to widespread deforestation, land grabbing and slave labour in the Amazon, with tainted beef and leather entering British and European markets Giant meat trader JBS is still sourcing cattle from ranchers responsible for widespread illegal rainforest destruction and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon Press release | June 16, 2022 New investigation reveals rubber is the European import that poses biggest threat to West and Central Africa’s tropical forests, linked to 520km2 of deforestation since 2000 In spite of this, rubber is excluded from a draft EU law to protect forests after tyre industry lobbying 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 | April 4, 2022 IPCC warning must be the death knell for the fossil fuel age Today’s warning from the IPCC must herald an end to the age of dirty fossil fuels and toward a rapid acceleration of renewable energy Press release | March 10, 2022 Environment Act rules could allow UK consumption to continue fuelling rapid global deforestation and lag behind EU proposals, despite government promises of ‘world-leading’ law New analysis indicates that the Environment Act could fail to tackle much of the UK’s deforestation footprint abroad, despite the UK government’s claims of a ‘world-leading’ law Statement | Feb. 3, 2022 Civil society position statement on the proposed EU regulation on deforestation-free products Over 100 civil society organisations from Europe and beyond are calling on the European Parliament and EU Member States to close the loopholes in the proposed European Commission’s regulation to tackle EU-driven global deforestation Press release | Dec. 8, 2021 Major dam project in one of Africa’s oldest national parks could breach Congolese law and threatens forests and biodiversity in DRC, with Chinese dam-builder backed by international investors New analysis shows how the Sombwe Dam project in DRC threatens tropical forests, rare species and conservation efforts in Upemba National Park Press release | Nov. 17, 2021 New proposed EU law to tackle global deforestation lacks ambition on finance and human rights The European Commission’s long-awaited draft law designed to curb EU-driven global deforestation is an important step but contains serious gaps and loopholes which risk limiting its impact Press release | Nov. 3, 2021 Global banks' and investors' pledges at COP26 doomed to fail if not backed up with regulation Today’s COP26 announcement that global firms that control $130tr of financial assets have committed to align themselves to the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5C warming limit are doomed to fail unless governments bring in strong laws to hold them to their word Statement | Nov. 1, 2021 The money pipeline fuelling deforestation must stop now We don't need governments to stand on the sidelines and champion voluntary initiatives that assume finance will fix itself. We need regulation that puts binding obligations on financial institutions Show Next 10
