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 Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Natural resource governance Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong 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 | 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 Press release | Oct. 28, 2021 New data highlights importance of including beef in Environment Bill to tackle UK’s complicity in global deforestation Today, new UK government data showed UK consumption of beef and leather accounts for the biggest share of the UK’s imported deforestation footprint Press release | Oct. 21, 2021 Top global banks and investors made an estimated $1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses New investigation reveals for the first time how much financial institutions in UK, EU, US, and China could have made from deals with agribusiness firms linked to deforestation and associated abuses Press release | Oct. 7, 2021 Household brands and global financiers including BlackRock linked to clearance of tropical rainforest, human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea Undercover investigation reveals tainted palm oil has been sold on to household brands including Kellogg’s, Nestlé, and The Hershey Company Press release | Oct. 6, 2021 US Congress must pass new bill to help end deforestation around the world The US should seize the opportunity to be a leader in promoting good governance, protecting indigenous people, and end its complicity in the destruction of the world’s climate-critical forests. Statement | Sept. 6, 2021 Open letter to the UK Prime Minister: Take action to protect the Amazon The destruction of the Amazon has dire implications for global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change but there is much the UK can still do Press release | June 14, 2021 Global Witness response to G7 Nature Compact agreement The G7 leaders’ Nature Compact has rightly recognised they need to do more to safeguard forests. This must now be backed up by all G7 members, and other key consumer countries, bringing forward legislation to end their countries’ complicity in global forest destruction ahead of COP26. Show Next 10
