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FINANCE’S ROLE IN DEFORESTATION
Forests & Finance assesses the finance received by over 300 companies directly involved in the beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber supply chains, whose operations may impact natural tropical forests and the communities that rely on them in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa, and parts of South America.
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Assessing policies and exposure
See how banks and investors measure up on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and their exposure to forest-risks
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Financial flows and policy assessments key findings
Since the Paris Agreement banks have provided USD 238 billion in credit to 186 of the largest forest-risk commodity companies in the world. Emissions from… Read More
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We untangle the web of abuses from Northern Pulp, Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp & Paper and what it means for the takeover of Domtar and its investors @Barclays @CreditSuisse @BMO
Domtar Deal, Deforestation and Abuses: Whose Side are Banks On?
https://t.co/Ybsk3crUSg
Financiers: Drop JBS!
@Santander
@btgpactual
@BancodoBrasil
@Bradesco
@Barclays
@jpmorgan
@bndes
@blackrock
@Fidelity
@abppensioen
@Vanguard_Group
@itau
@CapitalGroup https://t.co/2Rq8YcKmjC
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The Chain: Record Deforestation and Weakening Legal Framework in Brazil Highlight Need for New EU Import Law
The Chain: Record Deforestation and Weakening Legal Framework in Brazil Highlight Need for New EU Import Law
The recently released PRODES data for 2021 shows deforestation of 13,235 km2 (1,323,500 hectares) in the Legal Amazo…
chainreactionresearch.com
Domtar was acquired by Paper Excellence. Although a complex corporate structure obfuscates the connection between Paper Excellence and APP, strong evidence indicates the two groups operate as a deeply integrated production-marketing conglomerate.
Environmental Paper Network @WhatsNYourPapr
The @DomtarCorp deal, deforestation and abuses: whose side are banks on?
The acquisition of Domtar with the financial support of @Barclays @CreditSuisse and @BMO indicates that banks’ policies are still extremely ineffective in protecting #forests and human rights.
🚨What does a polluting industrial plant in North America have in common with lost pristine rainforests and human rights abuses in Indonesia?
All companies responsible are part of the same conglomerate.
Read our latest blog on the @DomtarCorp deal 👇👇
https://t.co/Ybsk3crUSg
Dutch TV doc shows how Bunge buys soy from Estrondo, a soy producing company in the Cerrado involved in deforestation and conflict. Its security guards have shot at locals multiple times.
Bunge financiers include:
@ING_news
@RaboFoodAgri
@Citi
@jpmorgan
@SMBC
@mizuhofg_promo
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Financial Incentives to Slow Deforestation are Helpful – But Public Policies to Stop it Are Essential
New blog brings a reflection on the COP26 deforestation commitments in light of global policy efforts:
Financial Incentives to Slow Deforestation are Helpful – But Public Policies to Stop it Are Essential – Forests & Finance
A reflection on the COP26 deforestation commitments in light of global policy efforts By Jeff Conant and Merel van…
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Lançamos uma série especial que investiga relações do agronegócio com o mercado financeiro. E o que isso significa para políticas públicas brasileiras e defesa de territórios indígenas e quilombolas, por exemplo.
RT pra divulgar o que já foi publicado até agora!
🎥Fellipe Abreu
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O crescente atrelamento do agronegócio brasileiro ao mercado financeiro – incluindo “títulos verdes” irresponsáveis – está permitindo investimentos estrangeiros no setor mais responsável pelo desmatamento.
Muito Além da Porteira: leia a quinta reportagem.
Planos de aposentadoria nos Estados Unidos alimentam a destruição da Floresta Amazônica
O crescente atrelamento do agronegócio brasileiro ao mercado financeiro – incluindo “títulos verdes” irrespo…
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Investors warn EU against badging intensive farming as sustainable.
“It is critical that the EU Taxonomy only defines as green those sectors that are genuinely environmentally sustainable.”
EXCLUSIVE Investors warn EU against badging intensive farming as sustainable
A group of global investors representing more than $3.5 trillion in assets has urged the European Commission not t…
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How The Data Was
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Scope of the data
This project assesses the financial services received by over 300 companies directly involved in the beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber, and tropical timber (“forest-risk sector”) supply chains, whose operations impact natural tropical forests in Southeast Asia, Central, and West Africa, and parts of South America.
Source of the data
The financial data was retrieved from: financial databases (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Thomson EMAXX, TradeFinanceAnalytics, and IJGlobal); company reports (annual, interim, quarterly) and other company publications; company register filings; as well as media and analyst reports. These were used to identify corporate loans and underwriting facilities provided to the selected companies for the period 2013-2020 (April), and bondholding and shareholding data for April 2021.
Adjustment of the data
Companies with business activities outside of the forest-risk sector had recorded amounts reduced to more accurately present the proportion of financing that can be reasonably attributed to the forest-risk sector operations of the selected company, in the selected regions (see Adjusters).
For more information, please see the methodology section.
Featured Story Using Our Data
Banking Centers of Brazil, Indonesia, China, the United States and Japan Are Bankrolling Global Deforestation, New Analysis Finds
More than USD 238 billion in credit has been provided to companies driving tropical deforestation globally since the Paris Climate Agreement
A Coalition Seeking Change
We seek to improve financial sector transparency, policies, systems, and regulations to prevent financial institutions from facilitating systemic adverse Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impacts that are all too common in the operations of many forest-risk commodity sector companies.
