Banking on Biodiversity Collapse: Inaugural Report Reveals Major Bank and Investor Policies Accelerating Deforestation, Biodiversity Destruction, and Rights Violations
Behind the scenes, the finance sector is playing an outsized role in global deforestation by financing agribusiness and logging companies.
Is TNFD an answer to the biodiversity crisis?
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has emerged as a proposed solution to the biodiversity crisis — but it’s a product of the same collusion between corporations and regulators that has deepened, not helped, the planet’s biodiversity crisis.
“Wall Street: Steer Clear of JBS” — NGOs Warn Financiers of Risks Ahead of Meatpacker Giant’s NYSE Listing
Citigroup, Bank of America, BlackRock, Vanguard and Other Banks Are Enabling Environmental Destruction and Human Rights Abuses Associated with JBS NEW YORK — Today, several leading climate, agriculture, and animal…
Banks must respect Indigenous Peoples’ land rights to Keep Forests Standing
Banks have a role to play in ensuring that their clients are not violating the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities.
Pulping Borneo: Deforestation in RGE Group’s Supply Chain and RGE’s Hidden Links to a New Mega-Scale Pulp Mill in North Kalimantan, Indonesia
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Keep Forests Standing Scorecard 2022
Evaluating the Brands and Banks Driving Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses
PRB banks responsible for over US$1.25 trillion in climate-destructive financing since Paris Agreement
San Francisco, CA – As the UN Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) marks its one-year anniversary, a review of signatory banks’ financing shows that PRB banks are far from their…
Mongabay: $154b in capital has gone to 300 forest-risk companies since the Paris Agreement
“Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2016, 300 companies at risk for contributing to deforestation have received at least $153.9 billion in financing, according to a new analysis by…