Brazil’s soy industry association, ABIOVE, formally withdrew from the Amazon Soy Moratorium.The consequences are huge: Amazon deforestation could surge 30% by 2045.
The rainforest destruction we observed in Mahakam Ulu is already making its way into products sold globally.
Mahakam Ulu’s ecosystem is a living archive of Borneo’s cultural and natural history — one that took millions of years to evolve, but that could vanish in a little more than a decade.
At Rainforest Action Network we are beginning the new year reflecting on the most urgent question of our times: What future are we creating together? This question drives our work,…
RAN’s story with the Grateful Dead goes back to our very roots. Over the years, Bob Weir has been an honorary board member and a steadfast supporter of our work — and what a long, strange trip it’s been.
Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.
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.
Developing countries need trillions of dollars to decarbonize, but the funding initiatives under discussion at COP30 don’t deliver on true climate justice.
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.