Today the Indofood subsidiary Salim Ivomas announced its plans to withdraw its membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). This move from Salim Ivomas follows the same action taken by its…
Press Releases
Palm Oil Giant Indofood Subsidiary Loses Sustainability Certification Over Labor Abuses; Suspension of RSPO Membership Looms
San Francisco, CA – Today the world’s largest palm oil certification scheme, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), ordered the suspension of the “sustainability” certificates of Indonesian palm oil…
NGO Statement of Concern on Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ revised Timber Sourcing Code
We, the undersigned NGOs, are deeply disappointed by the recent revision of Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ timber sourcing policy (1), which fails to end the use of timber associated with rainforest…
Palm Oil Giant Indofood Plans to Withdraws from RSPO Over Labor Abuses; RSPO Threatens to Suspend Membership
PepsiCo, Wilmar, and Banks remain connected, must terminate partnerships, NGOs say San Francisco, CA – Indonesian palm oil giant Indofood has announced its plans to withdraw from the world’s largest…
Report Finds 11 Banks Increased Financing to TransCanada Subsidiary Building Coastal GasLink Pipeline, Despite Wet’suwet’en Opposition
With no consent secured from hereditary Wet’suwet’en leadership, banks funding Coastal Gaslink Pipeline are complicit in violating Indigenous Rights A white paper released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) reveals…
Statement From Rainforest Action Network In Solidarity With Unist’ot’en Camp and Wet’suwet’en Leadership
Outrageous human rights abuses in the name of corporate profits have to stop — and Rainforest Action Network stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in their peaceful efforts…
Activists Shut Down SF JPMorgan Chase Branch Decrying Bank’s Massive Financing of Fossil Fuels While Hosting Healthcare Conference
For Release Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon, 202-503-6141, blair@soundspeedpr.com *** High resolution photos available upon request *** San Francisco – Today, dozens of activists locked down the Chase bank branch in downtown…
Rally Outside JPMorgan Chase Health Conference Highlighting WHO Report Climate Change Health Impacts
For immediate release, January 8, 2019, 1pm PST High resolution photos available. San Francisco – As part of a growing trend of actions targeting JPMorgan Chase for its financing of…
Arrests Made at Chase Bank as Protests Escalate Against Bank’s Funding Choices
“Block the Big Banks” rally decries Chase funding of pipelines, prisons and immigrant detention centers
As World Gathers for COP24, Chase Bank Found Undermining Paris Agreement by Financing Coal Power Expansion in Poland
Climate advocates claim JPMorgan funding is starkly at odds with the goal of a 1.5 degree world Katowice – As global leaders head to Katowice to strengthen climate commitments at…
Recent Media
Mother Jones: We Need To Talk About Palm Oil
“Emma Lierley, forest policy director at the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), echoed this sentiment. “The same problems are still happening in this industry,” she said. “Deforestation is continuing, threatened species…
Devex: Opinion: Why players such as RSPO matter to the global climate
“Last week, with relatively little fanfare, members of the world’s largest certification scheme for palm oil, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), voted to strengthen its sustainability standard. Palm…
Occupy Jamie Dimon: Activists Are Chasing the Billionaire Across the U.S.
But the spotlight on Dimon and his bank shines bright. In May, environmental activists set up their makeshift encampment on a street in downtown Seattle along with a sign: “Road…
Reuters: Palm oil body says it finds exploitative labor practices at Malaysia’s FGV
“With this decision, the RSPO has again failed to adequately hold accountable one of its member companies found guilty of widespread illegal labor violations,” said Robin Averbeck, Agribusiness Campaign Director…
Quartz: A palm oil giant has been sanctioned over forced labor and trafficking workers
“FGV Holdings Berhad isn’t having a great week. First, the colossal palm oil giant, owned in part by the Malaysian government, posted its second consecutive quarterly loss, attributed to falling crude…
Mongabay: RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards
“The effectiveness of the new RSPO standards has also been called into question by the U.S.-based advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which says the RSPO had for years failed…
Bloomberg: To Keep Old Growth out of New Shirts, Fashion Turns to Technology
“No one dies for fashion in greater numbers than, it turns out, the trees. More than 150 million are cleared every year, shipped around the world, then pulped and processed into…
Forbes: See How Your Halloween Candy Is Made From Palm Oil Destroying The Sumatran Rainforest
“Candy makers and companies like PepsiCo and Unilever have made promises to change their practices when it comes to using conflict palm oil, but according to the Rainforest Action Network, that’s been monitoring…
Fast Company: At “forest school,” humans teach orphaned orangutans how to be apes
“Clearly, protecting the habitat in the first place is the only longterm viable answer,” says Laurel Sutherlin, with the nonprofit Rainforest Action Network. The organization, along with others, has pressured…
The Nation: The Climate-Wrecking Industry… and How to Beat It
“Recognizing that problem, organizers have sought to outflank the companies by targeting their bankers. As the protests and blockades make new fossil-fuel projects controversial, even notorious, there’s an increased reputational…