Cargill, Nestlé resumed palm oil sourcing in Guatemala despite legacy of violence and intimidation, advocates find
Washington DC – Cargill and Nestlé have resumed business with Guatemalan palm oil supplier REPSA (Reforestadora de Palma S.A.), whose links to corruption, bribery, violence, and intimidation forced the multinational…
With New Policy, The Hanover Insurance Group Starts to Exit Coal and Tar Sands
The Hanover Insurance Group recently updated its Environmental, Social and Governance framework and committed to cease new investments in many coal and tar sands companies and partly divest from these…
Ten Major Indonesian Agribusiness Corporations Failing On Indigenous Rights
New report evaluates ten of the largest Indonesian corporate groups in the forest-risk sector and finds them all failing to ensure free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) San Francisco, CA…
The Need for Free, Prior and Informed Consent
An Evaluation of the Policies and Standard Operating Procedures of Ten Major Corporate Groups involved in Forest-Risk Commodity Supply Chains in Southeast Asia
Indigenous-led Actions Across the Nation Demand an End to Tar Sands Pipelines
On October 2, hundreds of people around the globe joined together to demand that Chase, Liberty Mutual, and other financial institutions stop backing the destructive tar sands sector and respect…
[Sept 2020 Update] Who’s banking the Coastal GasLink pipeline?
The short version At the end of May 2020, at least 26 banks from around the world took part in a US$4.7 billion project finance loan to fund the construction…
Covid Community Relief Funds
The impact of COVID-19 has been hardest felt by the poor, people of color, and Indigenous Peoples. This summer, we asked you if you could help create a grassroots matching gift to send support where it was needed most.
Keep Forests Standing
Campaign Launch!
Today, we’re putting 17 brands and banks on notice: end deforestation and the expansion of logging and industrial agriculture into the last tropical rainforests of Indonesia, the Amazon, and the Congo Basin, in particular areas traditionally owned and managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities…NOW.
New Report Profiles Major Brands and Banks Driving Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses; Failing to Meet 2020 Commitments
Marks the launch of a new campaign by Rainforest Action Network ***Rainforest Action Network wants to acknowledge the extraordinary circumstances of this moment, given the terrible impacts of COVID-19 on…
International Business Times: OpEd – For Forest Survival, Corporations Are Accountable To Uphold Indigenous Land Rights
“As climate change deepens, forests –– those lush, abundant, mysterious stands of trees that for millennia have quietly produced the air we breathe and the water we drink –– have…