Insights

December 9, 2019

Indonesia has yet again witnessed another year scarred by catastrophic fires that have caused immense damage and blanketed the country and its neighbours in a toxic haze. Read More

November 25, 2019

Banks and investors are under increasing scrutiny for their financing of commodities driving tropical deforestation, and rightly so. The environmental, social, and governance… Read More

November 7, 2019

Following a 2-year investigation by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) into Korindo, the FSC released on Monday 5th November a summary of its findings. It… Read More

September 30, 2019

The Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB), a bank-led initiative supported by the UN Environment Programme Initiative (UNEP-FI), was launched on 22 and 23 September… Read More

September 11, 2019

Key findings: There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, 84% more than the same period last year. Deforestation has spiked by 54%… Read More

August 22, 2019

Runaway fires in July-August have prompted six Indonesian provinces to declare a State of Emergency.[1]The haze has become an international environmental and public… Read More

April 15, 2019

Read the introductory briefing to the forestsandfinance.org site to find out what ESG risks exist in the forest-risk commodity sector and which banks and investors… Read More

April 12, 2019

The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia are anxious to decouple palm oil’s association with deforestation and climate change. Palm oil prices have been tumbling for… Read More

April 8, 2019

Japanese, Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian banks remain largest financiers of forest-risk companies in Southeast Asia - some progress made in ESG financing policies, but not nearly enough Read More