Sekitar 50 lembaga masyarakat sipil mendesak MUFG dan bank-bank besar Jepang yang lain untuk menyelaraskan pembiayaan mereka dengan Perjanjian Iklim Paris. Surat desakan masyarakat sipil ini dikirimkan kepada Direktur Utama dan Dewan Direkai MUFG, SMBC dan Mizuho. Ini adalah surat yang dikirimkan kepada Hironori Kamezawa, Direktur Utama MUFG. Hironori Kamezawa, Direktur Utama/CEO Dan Dewan Direksi […]
The Forests & Finance Blog
By Marília Monteiro – BankTrack and Merel van der Mark – Rainforest Action Network In Brazil, the world’s leading cause of deforestation, the beef industry, is thriving. Financial backing from major global banks – and the government itself – for irresponsible beef companies like JBS is contributing to the sector’s increasing impacts. JBS S.A. is […]
by Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini Originally published by ((o))oeco in Portuguese and by Mongabay in English Two pension funds in the Netherlands and one from Japan have invested a combined half a billion dollars in Brazil’s top three meatpackers. These investments in cattle ranching, an industry that’s the main driver of Amazon deforestation, […]
By Daniel Camargos, Mariana Della Barba, Diego Junqueira, Daniela Penha, Gisele Lobato, Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Joana Suarez and Pedro Sibahi (Repórter Brasil) After one year, 61% of murder investigations in Brazil’s rural areas have yet to be concluded and nobody has been convicted Special report “Measured grave”, published by Repórter Brasil, provides an unprecedented x-ray […]
by Change Finance Change Finance, the network of non-profit organisations and activists that campaign for reforms of the financial sector, alongside 52 organisations has sent an open letter to the European Commission and Mairead McGuinness, the EU finance Commissioner, requesting that the upcoming Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy includes an ambitious agenda for creating an EU […]
These are attacks on the freedom of the media and on freedom of speech; the organization will not respond to any attempt at illegal constraint By Repórter Brasil Repórter Brasil has been the target of a series of attacks in the last few days that managed to remove its website (reporterbrasil.org.br) from the air. Attackers […]
Rekam Jejak Pelanggaran HAM Perusahaan Raksasa Sinar Mas Group dan Perlawanan Masyarakat di Garis Depan Oleh Fitri Arianti, RAN Jumat sore akhir Februari 2015, seorang petani muda bernama Indra Pelani tengah dibonceng temannya di tepi desa di provinsi Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. Indra bersama seorang temannya sedang menuju ke festival panen padi yang mereka nanti-nantikan, tapi […]
By Chain Reaction Research The beef and soy sectors have been two of the major drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes in recent years. Financial institutions with exposure to these sectors may be inadvertently contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss. As global stakeholders react to these threats, financial institutions may […]
New report evaluates ten of the largest Indonesian corporate groups in the forest-risk sector and finds them all failing to ensure free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC). Financial powerhouses are urged to require their suppliers or clients to do more to prove full compliance with laws, regulations, and best practices for FPIC processes. San Francisco, […]
Industry groups representing Indonesia’s forestry and plantation sectors regularly portray their environmental impacts as trade-offs inherent in Indonesia’s economic development. Corporate tax revenues generated are frequently cited as evidence of contribution to national development, and groups like pulp & paper giant APRIL have widely publicized headline tax payments to demonstrate its positive economic impacts. A […]