Protest Calls Out Mondelēz on Forest Destruction, Human Rights Violations, and Climate Inaction as Company Holds Shareholder Meeting
Protest Outside Mondelēz AGM Calls Out Company on Forest Destruction, Human Rights Violations, and Climate Inaction Activists deliver more than 150,000 petition signatures to major consumer goods company, demanding action…
RAN responds to Nestlé’s Land Rights Action Plan; ‘More Major Brands Must Ensure Rights, Forest Protections’
February 22, 2023 (San Francisco, CA) — Rainforest Action Network has issued a response to Nestlé’s recently published Action Plan on “Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities Land Rights.” The plan…
Is Procter & Gamble a Climate and Rights Villain?
Procter & Gamble likes to pretend it’s a climate hero, but it’s really a classic villain. Its far-flung suppliers cause social and environmental mayhem all the way from the tropical forests of Indonesia to the boreal forests of Canada.
Thousands Demand Protection for Pargamanan-Bintang Maria Community’s Benzoin Forests
The #SaveBenzoinForests movement has generated 23 thousand petition signatures to protect an Indigenous community’s benzoin forests in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
P&G: Touching lives – destroying life?
The rainforests of Indonesia are some of the last remaining in the world — but they’re being intentionally burned and bulldozed to clear forest for Conflict Palm Oil and pulp…
Brands and Banks Continue to Fuel Fires Despite the Climate Crisis
As the headlines of Fall 2021 detail one climate disaster after another — increasing hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, deadly unprecedented floods in Germany, the hottest temperatures ever recorded…
We need to act as if our forests were on fire, because they are
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the world is on fire right now. We’re experiencing the hottest June on record in North America and in Africa, and massive fires…
Reparation for the Irreparable
For more than two weeks, a group of the Indigenous Dayak Modang Long Wai people in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been blocking the entrance to a huge local palm…
MUFG: No. 1 Asian banker of the climate crisis
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) –- the parent company of Union Bank in the U.S. — is Japan’s largest bank. It’s not only financing the construction of more coal plants…
