Royal Golden Eagle Group Receives Billions in Sustainability Loans Amid Ongoing Links to Deforestation Across its Business

Royal Golden Eagle has received $4.25 billion in “sustainability linked loans” since 2021, with Japanese megabank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) playing a key role. This green finance purports to incentivize “zero tolerance for deforestation” and “radical traceability and transparency,” among other headline goals, but regulators have expressed concerns around greenwashing.

PT. Toba Pulp Lestari: A Corporate Repeat Offender

424 hectares of natural forest were cleared within PT. Toba Pulp Lestari’s concessions after the introduction of RGE’s “no deforestation” policy in 2015.

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Exposing Royal Golden Eagle Group’s Sprawling Empire of Destruction

Despite corporate promises to stop driving deforestation, global household brands and banks are failing to ensure that they stop doing business with companies that are driving deforestation and rights abuses in their operations and supply chains in Indonesia. One of the clearest examples is the failure of major brands like Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz, Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, Kao and banks like Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to break ties with the Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE).