Exposing the Financial Fault Lines in the (Un)Just Energy Transition: New Report Exposes Billions in High-Risk Mining Finance
San Francisco, CA — [September 3, 2025] — A new report released today by the Forests & Finance Coalition, with support from global civil society partners, warns that the global…
Mining and Money 2025: Financial Faultlines in the Energy Transition
While climate action demands an urgent shift away from fossil fuels, the current race to extract so-called ‘transition minerals’ is repeating the same violent, exploitative and unsustainable practices that have defined the fossil fuel era.
Deforestation Gains Long-Overdue Recognition in Financial Climate Standards — But Key Loopholes Remain
Today, the Forests & Finance Coalition welcomes the long-overdue recognition in the new Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) standard for the financial sector (FINZ) that financial institutions (FIs) addressing climate…
UN Environment Programme fails to investigate its role in the TNFD greenwashing controversy
Today, 10 rights-holders and civil society organizations are publicly responding for the first time to the UN Environment Program (UNEP)’s decision to dismiss their complaint about its role in the…
Following Biden’s Historic Amazon Visit, RAN Calls on Global Leaders at COP29 to Restructure the Financial System Driving Deforestation
San Francisco – After Joe Biden made history this week as the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest, Rainforest Action Network is calling on global political and…
Banking on Biodiversity Collapse 2024: Banks and investors continue to finance deforestation while governments are “asleep at the wheel”
Despite international commitments such as the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), financing to sectors linked to deforestation continues to rise.
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.