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.
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…
We confronted the maker of Oreo and Chips Ahoy! in Chicago
We went to Network Effect in Chicago with a simple message: Mondelēz can’t have a good faith dialogue about sustainability if it refuses to clean up its supply chains.
Thousands held corporations accountable during the first-ever Global Insurance Week of Action!
Just like you need insurance to drive a car, fossil fuel companies need insurance to build and operate their infrastructure. That’s why they’re such a critical target in the fight…
Get Bank of America Back On Track: Background for AGM 2024
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Voices Support for Majority Action’s Exempt Solicitation Filing to Remove Clayton Rose, the Chair of Bank of America’s Enterprise Risk Committee and Responds to Bank of…
We Vacationed with the World’s Biggest Pillagers in Boca Raton
Last week, we dipped our toes in the warm waters of South Florida at a gathering of elite investment firms and consumer goods companies known as the Consumer Analyst Group…
Profiles in Community Action: RAN’s Community Action Grants Program in 2023
As the real-world impacts of hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise continue to accelerate, it is more clear than ever that the people who did the least to contribute…
Charting Our Course: Rainforest Action Network’s Five-Year Strategic Plan
The future of our planet remains in our hands at the moment. But any solutions toward a sustainable future lie at the intersection of forests, climate and human rights. For…
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.
Breaking the Fracking Cycle: From Texas LNG to Europe
I joined a delegation of women who are on the frontlines of fighting fracking and liquefied methane gas (LNG) in Texas, where we toured European countries with ties to this…
Resourcing the Movement
2023 marks the 30th anniversary of our small grants program at Rainforest Action Network — Community Action Grants. Community Action Grants provides critical and rapid funding — sometimes the very…
Insuring Our Future
Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to the largest threat to humanity – climate change – insurers are perpetuating dependence on fossil…
P&G: Stop Forest Destruction
In June, the company quietly published a revised Forest Commodity Policy that, in spite of public commitments to intact forests and forest communities, actually weakens the company’s forests standards. A…
The Power of Partnership
Our vision for change is interwoven within our very name. RAN’s network stretches across the globe, from the dense rainforests of Indonesia and the Amazon, to the frontline fights of…
Defunding Climate Chaos
The 2023 Banking on Climate Chaos report, released this April, is the most comprehensive analysis on fossil fuel banking produced to date. This 14th annual version of the report continued…
Big Wins for Forest and Communities
The most effective and efficient way to protect forest ecosystems is to protect the land rights of the Indigenous and frontline communities who depend on them. Science and history have…
“Natural” Gas is Methane
A decade ago, Rainforest Action Network coined the term “Conflict Palm Oil.” It was a part of a concerted effort to rebrand the most widely used vegetable oil in the…
Big Brands Show Little Sign of Progress in Our 2023 ‘Keep Forests Standing’ Scorecard
RAN’s 2023 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows minimal deforestation and human rights improvements among major consumer goods brands, and worsening performance by Procter & Gamble.
These Insurance Companies are Making the World Uninsurable
Insurance companies are supposed to protect people from risk. But time and time again, these money-hungry corporations continue not only to fail to protect people but abandon them altogether and…
Complicit: Bank of America, Human Rights, and Fossil Fuel Expansion
The brutal reality of climate chaos is being lived by millions of people around the world today, with its greatest burden borne by mostly BIPOC and low-income communities. Our global…
Action Debrief: Bridges and Banners in Cincinnati!
RAN’s social media strategist Kalyxa Roman joins our latest YouTube installment to talk about RAN’s two years of protest against P&G in Cincinnati, including highlights from a daring banner drop on a suspension bridge.
Oops… did we disrupt your Insurance Leadership Conference?
On October 1st, dozens of Colorado residents gathered outside the Insurance Leadership Forum in Colorado Springs. While execs from the world’s worst fossil fuel insurers, like Liberty Mutual, Chubb, Hartford,…
Is TNFD an answer to the biodiversity crisis?
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has emerged as a proposed solution to the biodiversity crisis — but it’s a product of the same collusion between corporations and regulators that has deepened, not helped, the planet’s biodiversity crisis.
Why hundreds of activists marched on Bank of America during Climate Week
Every dollar spent on fossil fuels pushes our climate further into chaos and violates human rights by supporting the extraction, pollution, and destruction of lives and communities. Bank of America…
