Global Consumer Brands Continue to Fall Short on Deforestation and Human Rights
Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.
Belém and Beyond: Why Saving the Amazon Requires Transforming Global Finance
COP30 is unfolding in the Amazon for the first time. The question is no longer whether this COP can “save” the Amazon — but whether the financial and political order are capable of doing so.
At COP30, policymakers drip water onto a wildfire
Developing countries need trillions of dollars to decarbonize, but the funding initiatives under discussion at COP30 don’t deliver on true climate justice.
EU hits “snooze” on landmark anti-deforestation law, Oreo cheers
If the planned delay goes through, this will be the second time in as many years that the EUDR has been delayed. The planet cannot wait any longer.
Amazon-clearing cattle are being turned into “green” jet fuel
Not all “green” energy is actually what it purports to be, and biofuels have a litany of problems that could outweigh their supposed benefits.
Billionaire coup: How extreme wealth is killing the planet
The uber-wealthy are propping up an unequal system of ever-increasing consumption and production, driving emissions and environmental harm at the expense of others’ land, resources, and autonomy.
Organized people beat organized money—again
After years of stonewalling and greenwashing, Procter & Gamble—the $361 billion multinational known best for its laundry detergent, razor blades, toilet paper and, sadly, rainforest destruction—has finally started to budge….
Palm oil producers are draining the life out of the Orangutan Capital of the World
Illegal drainage canals are turning the soil into a flammable carbon bomb inside the Orangutan Capital of the World.
Another reason to oppose war—its environmental fallout
The coming decades spell trouble for the two billion or so people living in or near conflict zones, and they also paint a dire picture for one of the frequently unheeded casualties of war—the environment.
Japan’s largest bank blinked, and then peatlands burned
MUFG acquired one of Indonesia’s largest banks, yet failed to vet its client list, which includes firms responsible for egregious acts of peatland destruction.
