Will the RSPO enforce its own rules and protect workers rights?
The backbone of any certification system is its credibility in the market. If brands like PepsiCo, and others in the Snack Food 20, put a so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil label…
Delivering our “message in a bottle”: A quarter million people call for PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil
The phrase “the elephant in the room” is, by definition, “an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed; an obvious problem or risk no one wants…
WWF’s Palm Oil Scorecard Rewards Companies With Links to Child Labor and Forest Destruction
Palm oil is a subject of heated debate across the globe. Why? Put simply it is a controversial, yet nearly universal, commodity. The expansion of industrial scale plantations has destroyed…
Yale Students to PepsiCo: “We Won’t Work for Conflict Palm Oil”
Earlier this week, RAN activists and volunteer Yale students disrupted a networking event where PepsiCo was recruiting at the Yale School of Management. RAN Organizers Pearl Robinson and JeNaé Nicole…
Orphaned Orangutan Gets Second Chance After His Home Was Destroyed by Palm Oil
Cross-posted at EcoWatch. As Conflict Palm Oil companies move into priceless rainforests like Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, they are leaving a trail of destruction behind. Chocolate the orangutan is one of…
#TeamRainforest: Challenging Abercrombie & Fitch on its Home Turf
What happens when #TeamRainforest comes to your party? No one can miss us! Last week, 50 RAN activists came to Abercrombie & Fitch’s biggest event of the year—its annual party…
Keep It In the Ground: One Year of Climate Actions and Commitment.
On September 15, 2015, Indigenous and frontline leaders were joined by national environmentalists in Washington, D.C. to deliver a letter from more than 400 organizations and leaders demanding that President…
PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm Oil Problem: Taking the Fight to PepsiCo’s Doorstep
A few miles north of New York City, what do Westchester and Fairfield Counties have to do with child labor? Species extinction? Rainforest destruction? Climate change? Everything. PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm…
Op-Ed: The limits of bank self-regulation in fighting deforestation
Check out this Financial Times op-ed from Ben Goldsmith on the laws needed to stop banks from financing companies putting people and forests at risk. Banks and investors in Southeast…
Obama: Take a Stand Against Dakota Access Pipeline
RAN Supports Standing Rock Sioux Against Dakota Access Pipeline Rainforest Action Network has joined more than 30 national environmental organizations in calling on President Obama to stop the construction of…
Australia’s LNG Dreams
This blog was written by Julien Vincent, Executive Director of Market Forces Australia, for the 2016 Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card: Shorting the Climate. Over the past five years, Australia…
Defending the Last Clean Beach in Texas
This blog was written by Rebekah Hinojosa of Save RGV from LNG, and Johanna de Graffenreid of Gulf Restoration Network. The Rio Grande Valley along the Texas and Mexico border…
Video: A Dozen Youth Leaders Flash Mob Hollister Store
Young people aren’t buying it. A dozen youth leaders did a flash mob at a Hollister store in Detroit to demand it use rainforest-free fabrics in its clothing. Watch the…
Tyson: Stop Conflict Palm Oil & Factory Farming
Tyson Foods is a massive company that has a devastating impact on countless people, animals and our planet. This corporate giant profits from “processing” chicken, cows and pigs into meat…
Human Rights: Failures in Bank Policy and Practice
With rare exceptions, banks continue to fall woefully short on human rights policies. The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights set out authoritative global standards concerning corporations’ —…
Let’s talk about Palm Oil, Baby
Last night PepsiCo re-launched its 90’s throwback drink, Crystal Pepsi. It was a 90’s-filled night, with performances by Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue. In typical 90’s nerd fashion, we weren’t invited,…
Hazy Morals and Cloudy Policies: PepsiCo’s Unclear Legacy
Pepsi is about to launch its biggest advertising campaign of the last two decades. Using Facebook, Twitter, and shameless nostalgia, Pepsi is resurrecting its ”iconic clear soda from the 90’s,”…
Banks Funding the Dirtiest Form of Coal
In Europe, attention on lignite coal, the dirtiest form of coal, is usually focused on Germany, the European Union’s largest economy where, in spite of one of the world’s most…
A Vulture Firm Picks at Appalachia’s Bones
As the future of the U.S. coal mining industry darkens, one upstart vulture firm has snapped up several mines from distressed coal giants. Founded in 2010, Blackhawk Mining has rapidly…
You spoke — we’re making sure U.S. Ex-Im is listening
On Earth Day, we asked you to tell the U.S. Export-Import Bank to stay far away from two proposed coal plants in Bangladesh. Yesterday, we brought your voice straight to…
RSPO’s Credibility On The Line: Will It Maintain Its Suspension of Industry Laggard IOI Group?
Yesterday, news broke of a pending decision by the RSPO Complaints Panel to lift the suspension of IOI Group’s certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification system. If…
A Shared Vision on How to Change the Course
“What would it look like if we won the battle against climate change?” RAN attempted to answer this question through Change the Course, a people-powered approach for developing strategies for a…
Indonesia’s Bid for Coal Expansion
Over the past decade, Indonesia has undergone a major coal mining boom. The country has now announced plans to secure a market for its own coal by significantly expanding domestic…
The Posterchild of Destructive Coal Power in South Asia
The Sundarbans mangrove forest is a UNESCO World Heritage site shared by Bangladesh and India. A joint venture between the two countries’ national electricity providers is putting this precious biodiverse…
Tell UNESCO: protect the Sundarbans and the Bengal tiger
The United Nations has recognized the Sundarbans in Bangladesh — the world’s largest mangrove forest and safe haven for endangered species like the Bengal tiger — as a World Heritage…