Looking Ahead: Meeting the Moment in 2026
At Rainforest Action Network we are beginning the new year reflecting on the most urgent question of our times: What future are we creating together? This question drives our work,…
Gratitude from the Rainforests — thank you Bobby Weir!
RAN’s story with the Grateful Dead goes back to our very roots. Over the years, Bob Weir has been an honorary board member and a steadfast supporter of our work — and what a long, strange trip it’s been.
Global Consumer Brands Continue to Fall Short on Deforestation and Human Rights
Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.
Belém and Beyond: Why Saving the Amazon Requires Transforming Global Finance
COP30 is unfolding in the Amazon for the first time. The question is no longer whether this COP can “save” the Amazon — but whether the financial and political order are capable of doing so.
At COP30, policymakers drip water onto a wildfire
Developing countries need trillions of dollars to decarbonize, but the funding initiatives under discussion at COP30 don’t deliver on true climate justice.
Start of COP30: Implementation Has to Mean Accountability
COP30 opens today in Belém, Brazil with leaders promising an “implementation COP.” Yet implementation without accountability will fail. Governments are pledging funds for forest protection while letting their banks and investors finance deforestation with impunity.
No Sacrifice Zones: The Biggest Fossil Fuel Buildout of Our Lifetime Threatens the US Gulf Coast South . . and Our Future
RAN’s Climate and Energy Program is focused on stopping the build-out of methane infrastructure at its most critical point: the U.S. Gulf Coast. Currently, RAN and partners are working to…
Campaigning Across Borders: The Expanding Role of RAN Japan in the Fight for People and Planet
As the world’s third largest economy, there can be no underestimating the role that Japan can and will play in the global energy transition. And yet, Japanese financial institutions are…
A Decade in the Leuser: A Model for Transformative Conservation
Ten years ago, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) responded to an urgent call from frontline allies in Indonesia. Fires, set illegally to clear land for industrial palm oil, were tearing through…
Indigenous Land Rights: A Pathway to Preserving Tropical Forests
Around the world, Indigenous communities are on the frontlines of defending the planet’s remaining tropical forests, and their victories are becoming powerful examples of how land rights can drive environmental…
Community Action Grants: Providing Crucial, Rapid Funding for Communities Fighting Injustice
Since 1993, RAN has distributed over $8 million through more than 1,200 grants to Indigenous and frontline communities. In the last two years alone, RAN provided $1.6 million in support…
People Power Forces P&G to Act — Now Mondelez Must Follow
In 2025, Rainforest Action Network and our allies secured a significant breakthrough with Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s most powerful consumer goods companies. After years of dragging…
Chainsaw economy: Financial sector fuels deforestation despite climate promises
Last year, the world lost a primary forest area larger than Sri Lanka while finance for forest-risk commodities surged.
EU hits “snooze” on landmark anti-deforestation law, Oreo cheers
If the planned delay goes through, this will be the second time in as many years that the EUDR has been delayed. The planet cannot wait any longer.
Insurance needs to be real about the science of climate crisis
Captain Ray Mallet isn’t sure why the shrimp stopped coming up the channel once the three methane export terminals arrived in his home of Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It could be…
Amazon-clearing cattle are being turned into “green” jet fuel
Not all “green” energy is actually what it purports to be, and biofuels have a litany of problems that could outweigh their supposed benefits.
Billionaire coup: How extreme wealth is killing the planet
The uber-wealthy are propping up an unequal system of ever-increasing consumption and production, driving emissions and environmental harm at the expense of others’ land, resources, and autonomy.
Greenwashed Gold Rush: The hidden cost of the electric vehicle boom
Global sales of electric vehicles currently account for a quarter of all vehicles sold, but it’s not necessarily a victory for environmentalism.
Organized people beat organized money—again
After years of stonewalling and greenwashing, Procter & Gamble—the $361 billion multinational known best for its laundry detergent, razor blades, toilet paper and, sadly, rainforest destruction—has finally started to budge….
How Sustained Pressure Continues to Move Chubb on Climate
The insurance industry is a key driver of climate chaos. While insurance companies deem neighborhoods, cities, and even entire states as too risky to insure due to climate risks —…
Oreo-maker begs the EU to delay its landmark anti-deforestation law
Mondelēz is attempting to delay the EUDR, taking a leaf from the palm oil industry as it tries to create loopholes for smallholders.
Palm oil producers are draining the life out of the Orangutan Capital of the World
Illegal drainage canals are turning the soil into a flammable carbon bomb inside the Orangutan Capital of the World.
Another reason to oppose war—its environmental fallout
The coming decades spell trouble for the two billion or so people living in or near conflict zones, and they also paint a dire picture for one of the frequently unheeded casualties of war—the environment.
Japan’s largest bank blinked, and then peatlands burned
MUFG acquired one of Indonesia’s largest banks, yet failed to vet its client list, which includes firms responsible for egregious acts of peatland destruction.
A playbook for combating corporate land theft emerges in Borneo
Indonesia’s pro-corporate land use system has caused devastating deforestation, but one Indigenous community is fighting back—and winning.