Challenging Corporate Power for 40 Years, And Counting
The fight for people and planet has always been a challenge. And everyone at RAN — and everyone who has supported RAN over the past 40 years — takes that challenge very seriously. That is why we build long-term, strategic and effective campaigns that have made a real difference.
Global Consumer Brands Lag on Deforestation, Human Rights Protections in 2024 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard
Global consumer goods companies remain critical drivers of deforestation and human rights violations in supply chains, particularly in producing forest-risk commodities like palm oil, soy, and paper used in packaging.
Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon
In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to…
RAN Supports BIPOC Activists At Climate Week Through Community Action Grants And Gets Ready for COP16
Activists from around the globe took to the streets of New York City the week of September 22nd in protests and events commemorating Climate Week 2024.
Activists Crashed a Black Tie Gala, Demanding Chubb Stop Insuring Methane
Last night, Manhattan’s business elite gathered at a prestigious black tie gala for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, where millionaires and top executives from coal companies, insurance companies 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.
We crashed Procter & Gamble’s “Signal Conference” and got arrested
P&G met with corporate leaders to talk about “rising global uncertainty” as their business practices lay waste to frontline communities and rainforests.
There’s no Pride in Corporate Greed
As Pride celebrations continue to expand, we’ve witnessed an unsettling trend: corporate sponsors have increasingly taken center stage.
Feeding Deforestation: How millions of tons of palm oil are hidden in animal feed
Our latest report finds that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil category imported into the United States, and staple dairy products increasingly contain “embedded” palm oil.
Fossil Fuel Financing reaches $6.9 Trillion since the Paris Agreement
Fossil fuels are a dead end for people and the planet. Big banks are financing them anyway. 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, with an average global surface temperature…
