COP30 opens today in Belém, Brazil with leaders promising an “implementation COP.” Yet implementation without accountability will fail. Governments are pledging funds for forest protection while letting their banks and investors finance deforestation with impunity.
RAN’s Climate and Energy Program is focused on stopping the build-out of methane infrastructure at its most critical point: the U.S. Gulf Coast. Currently, RAN and partners are working to…
As the world’s third largest economy, there can be no underestimating the role that Japan can and will play in the global energy transition. And yet, Japanese financial institutions are…
Ten years ago, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) responded to an urgent call from frontline allies in Indonesia. Fires, set illegally to clear land for industrial palm oil, were tearing through…
Around the world, Indigenous communities are on the frontlines of defending the planet’s remaining tropical forests, and their victories are becoming powerful examples of how land rights can drive environmental…
Since 1993, RAN has distributed over $8 million through more than 1,200 grants to Indigenous and frontline communities. In the last two years alone, RAN provided $1.6 million in support…
In 2025, Rainforest Action Network and our allies secured a significant breakthrough with Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s most powerful consumer goods companies. After years of dragging…
Last year, the world lost a primary forest area larger than Sri Lanka while finance for forest-risk commodities surged.
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.
Captain Ray Mallet isn’t sure why the shrimp stopped coming up the channel once the three methane export terminals arrived in his home of Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It could be…
Not all “green” energy is actually what it purports to be, and biofuels have a litany of problems that could outweigh their supposed benefits.
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.
Global sales of electric vehicles currently account for a quarter of all vehicles sold, but it’s not necessarily a victory for environmentalism.
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….
The insurance industry is a key driver of climate chaos. While insurance companies deem neighborhoods, cities, and even entire states as too risky to insure due to climate risks —…
Mondelēz is attempting to delay the EUDR, taking a leaf from the palm oil industry as it tries to create loopholes for smallholders.
Illegal drainage canals are turning the soil into a flammable carbon bomb inside the Orangutan Capital of the World.
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.
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.
Indonesia’s pro-corporate land use system has caused devastating deforestation, but one Indigenous community is fighting back—and winning.
A critically threatened rainforest sits at a crossroads—will it become a global model for rainforest conservation, or will it disappear piece by piece?
After impacted fishing families, RAN, and global allies exposed major insurer Chubb was insuring one of the biggest methane export terminals in the country, we pulled the new policy and…
Rising authoritarianism is eroding basic democratic principles and human rights around the world, and corporations aren’t doing enough about it.
The increasing use of palm oil in animal feed has deepened an unholy alliance between palm oil and animal agriculture, two planet-destroying industries, with the potential to dramatically accelerate tropical deforestation.
Lobbyists want the EU to give smallholders a pass on EUDR requirements, a dangerous gamble for Indonesia’s rainforests.
