Financiers Beware: Sale of Controversial Pulp and Paper Company Eldorado Brasil
Eldorado Brasil is involved in major corruption scandals, and has a legacy of serious environmental damage and social conflict. Various potential… Read More
Eldorado Brasil is involved in major corruption scandals, and has a legacy of serious environmental damage and social conflict. Various potential… Read More
In July 2017, the Indonesian financial services authority (OJK) published a new Regulation on Sustainable Finance (POJK). The POJK is a welcome and important step… Read More
In July 2017, the world’s largest pension fund, the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF), announced a set of indices for its so-called “ESG” investments. Shockingly,… Read More
New report by Rainforest Action Network, 350.org Japan, Friends of the Earth Japan and Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society reveals Mizuho’s financing… Read More
The forestsandfinance.org database has been updated with the latest financial flows to forest-risk companies in Southeast Asia since 2010, revealing the major role of Japanese… Read More
Publications
Find out why ESG factors matter in tropical forest-risk commodity sectors and what banks and investors must do to responsibly finance companies operating in these… Read More
A new Forests & Finance Dossier, Every Investor Has A Responsibility, lays out the human rights, climate & biodiversity risks financiers face — and the… Read More
Major palm oil producer IOI Group and pulp and paper producer APP are currently involved in separate community land rights conflicts, exposing their financiers to… Read More
IndoAgri’s policy falls short on addressing key ESG risks such as protecting valuable forests, preventing the exploitation of workers or committing to independent… Read More
HSBC is one of the largest providers of financial services to the palm oil industry. A Greenpeace report finds that, despite lending policies on forestry… Read More