Banking On Biodiversity Collapse 2026
Since 2020, banks have issued USD 595 billion to companies operating in high-risk sectors across the tropics — USD 351 billion to agro-commodities, USD 244 billion to metal/mineral mining. These sectors are the primary drivers of deforestation, land degradation and community conflict across the tropical forest basins of South America, Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa.
New Global Analysis Finds Banks Pumped USD 595 Billion into High-Risk Agribusiness and Mining in Tropical Forest Regions Since 2020
First combined analysis of agribusiness and mineral mining financial flows exposes growing biodiversity impacts from banks and investors AMSTERDAM, October 14, 2026 — The world’s largest banks and investors continue…
RAN welcomes P&G’s Human Rights Defender disclosure, calls for transparency and action
Consultation with frontline Defenders sets an important precedent Rainforest Action Network (RAN) welcomes Procter & Gamble’s new disclosure of its approach to protecting Human Rights Defenders, developed through extensive consultation…
The Illustrated Field Guide to Biodiversity Finance Narratives
The global conversation about biodiversity finance is still too often framed around one question: how do we mobilize more money for nature? But that’s only part of the story. Equally…
How a Decade of Advocacy Became a Documentary
Picture a rhinoceros in a rainforest. Add in orangutans swinging above, and elephants and tigers prowling below. There is only one place on our planet you could be — the…
Rainforest Action Network Calls on MUFG to End Funding to Fossil Fuel and Human Rights Violations
June 26, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan — Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a US-based environmental NGO headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Tokyo, participated in the annual shareholder meeting…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) welcomes meaningful steps by Mondelēz International to strengthen protections for Human Rights Defenders.
Mondelēz International, maker of Oreos, Chips Ahoy, and Sour Patch Kids, has made significant improvements in its approach to protecting Human Rights Defenders, making these a contractual obligation to suppliers….
On Earth Day, Global Coalition Delivers Mass Petition to Wall Street Banks Demanding Action to Protect the Amazon
Petition delivery accompanied by dramatic, building-size projection action in Midtown Manhattan ***Photos available here New York, NY — On Earth Day, a coalition of international conservation and Indigenous rights organizations…
The Iran War is reaching the world’s rainforests
Everyone knows by now that the war in Iran — a devastating conflict already exacting a heavy human toll — is disrupting the flow of oil around the world. It’s…
We had a day of action against Oreo
Activists in more than a dozen cities gathered outside offices and facilities belonging to Mondelēz International on Oreo Day to demand an end to deforestation and human rights abuses in the company’s supply chains.