The Forest Stewardship Council Risks its Reputation
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly meeting in Bali this October resulted in far-reaching changes to the FSC’s sustainable timber and paper certification scheme. Changes to the 1994 conversion…
This CEO Could Thwart Global Fossil Fuel Expansion Plans
Evan Greenberg may not be a household name, but he should be, as CEO of the world’s largest publicly-traded property and casualty insurer: Chubb. Chubb provides insurance coverage for everything…
Rio Grande Valley: At Risk from From Fracked Gas Terminals
Years of sustained local community resistance and international support has kept three liquefied natural gas projects (aka LNG or fracked gas) at bay in the southern Texas border town of…
The Price of Procter & Gamble’s Inaction
Last week, we protested outside Procter & Gamble’s headquarters in Cincinnati, demanding that the company take action against deforestation and human rights abuses in its global supply chain. A broad…
The Trans Mountain Pipeline Threatens Livelihoods and Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest
This is an opinion piece by RAN Insurance Campaign Coordinator, Mary Lovell, and was originally published on Common Dreams. I recently celebrated my 31st birthday, and I had the joy…
The Reckless Violence of the Supreme Court
West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency will limit the ability of the EPA to regulate carbon emissions, restrict the development and enforcement of pollution standards, and severely hamper the effort to fight climate change.
Meet Liberty Mutual’s Board of Directors and their Fossil Fuel Connections
Liberty Mutual directors are governing over and personally profiting from the expansion of climate-destroying fossil fuel operations, while ostensibly guiding one of the world’s biggest insurance companies through the demands of the climate crisis.
Is Procter & Gamble a Climate and Rights Villain?
Procter & Gamble likes to pretend it’s a climate hero, but it’s really a classic villain. Its far-flung suppliers cause social and environmental mayhem all the way from the tropical forests of Indonesia to the boreal forests of Canada.
Thousands Demand Protection for Pargamanan-Bintang Maria Community’s Benzoin Forests
The #SaveBenzoinForests movement has generated 23 thousand petition signatures to protect an Indigenous community’s benzoin forests in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
We’re Demanding that the U.S. Insurance Industry Stop Risking Our World & Our Communities
This April, nearly 10,000 insurance industry and risk management professionals are gathering in San Francisco for the Risk Management Society’s annual meeting: RISKWORLD 2022. Yet while the conference is focused…
