Musim Mas Group is the first Southeast Asian producer to complete verification and demonstrate its proof of concept of responsible palm oil, says Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) Singapore –…
April 11, 2019
April 10, 2019
Activists Rally Against World’s Worst Banker of Climate Change, JPMorgan Chase, in National Day of Action
CONTACT: Ayse Gursoz, (650)391-6443, Ayse@ran.org Activists Rally Against World’s Worst Banker of Climate Change, JPMorgan Chase, in National Day of Action As CEO Jamie Dimon testifies in front of the…
March 19, 2019
Report Finds Global Banks Poured $1.9 Trillion into Fossil Fuel Financing Since the Paris Agreement was Adopted, with Financing on the Rise Each Year
Findings reveal U.S. banks dominated fossil fuel funding, with JPMorgan Chase the worst on climate change by an astonishingly wide margin. CONTACT: Ayse Gursoz, (650)391-6443, Ayse@ran.org To download the full…
March 1, 2019
Indonesian Food Giant Indofood’s Palm Oil Arm Terminated From Sustainability Certification Over Labor Abuses
Global banks and investors on the hook for fueling illegal and exploitative acts, NGOs say CONTACT: Emma Rae Lierley, emma@ran.org, +1 425-281-1989 San Francisco, CA – The leading palm oil…
February 23, 2019
Activists Disrupt Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at Governors Association Meeting, Sending Message that Chase Must “Stop Funding Climate Change”
For immediate release, February 23, 2019, 12PM EST Video of disruption available here. Washington D.C.–This morning activists disrupted JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s address to the National Governors Association Winter…
February 11, 2019
Salim Ivomas, subsidiary of palm oil giant Indofood, withdraws from RSPO over labor abuses
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…
February 7, 2019
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…
January 30, 2019
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…
January 25, 2019
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…
January 23, 2019
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…