Deforestation Gains Long-Overdue Recognition in Financial Climate Standards — But Key Loopholes Remain
Today, the Forests & Finance Coalition welcomes the long-overdue recognition in the new Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) standard for the financial sector (FINZ) that financial institutions (FIs) addressing climate…
Following Pressure Campaign, Procter & Gamble Improves Forest Commodities and Human Rights Policies
RAN welcomes the new commitments, calls for further action and real and robust implementation SAN FRANCISCO – After years of campaign pressure from Rainforest Action Network (RAN), along with its…
Rainforest Action Network Exposes Illegal Peatland Destruction in Protected Sumatran Wildlife Reserve with New Satellite Evidence
San Francisco, CA – A groundbreaking new analysis by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and geospatial mapping partner TheTreeMap reveals that illegal canal construction inside Indonesia’s protected Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve…
Orangutan Emergency: Fresh Evidence Exposes Illegal Deforestation for Palm Oil
Collaborative action is urgently needed to stop deforestation and degradation of peatlands within 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.
UN Environment Programme fails to investigate its role in the TNFD greenwashing controversy
Today, 10 rights-holders and civil society organizations are publicly responding for the first time to the UN Environment Program (UNEP)’s decision to dismiss their complaint about its role in the…
U.S. Environmental Group Calls on MUFG to End Fossil Fuel and Deforestation Financing
RAN challenges Japan’s largest bank for failing on climate, human rights, and governance July 2, 2025 — Tokyo, Japan — Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a U.S.-based environmental NGO headquartered in…
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.
The Leuser Ecosystem has come a long way, but its future is still uncertain
A critically threatened rainforest sits at a crossroads—will it become a global model for rainforest conservation, or will it disappear piece by piece?