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Regulating Finance – a pre condition to implementing the GBF – a COP16 Green zone event
Forests & Finance today held an event in the Green Zone of UN CBD biodiversity COP16. The Green zone is the area that is… Read More
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45% of TNFD taskforce members face serious & environmental concerns
Today, a group of civil society and rights holder organizations filed a complaint with the UN Environment Programme. The complaint alleges that in co-founding… Read More
Understanding False Solutions to Deforestation
Our partners at Milieudefensie have highlighted the growing issue of false solutions to deforestation. False solutions are ideas promoted as ways to combat deforestation and… Read More
Los grandes bancos están financiando el colapso de la biodiversidad con 395.000 millones de dólares desde el Acuerdo de París; los gobiernos no consiguen frenar a los bancos
Nuevos informes revelan una escalada de la financiación a sectores destructivos y destacan la urgente necesidad de regulaciones del sector financiero para alcanzar los Objetivos… Read More
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Major Banks Fueling Biodiversity Collapse by $395 Billion Since the Paris Agreement; Governments Failing to Reign in Banks
New reports reveal escalating financing to destructive sectors and highlight the urgent need for financial sector regulations to achieve Global Biodiversity Goals San Francisco, CA… Read More
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UK Banks and Investors Continue Funding Deforestation Despite COP26 Pledges, New Report Reveals
A new analysis by Global Witness reveals that since the COP26 climate conference in 2021, UK banks have provided over £1 billion ($1.4 billion) in… Read More
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105 Organizations Demand Banks Stop Financing Industrial Livestock Production that Fuels the Climate Crisis
New York – 105 civil society organizations from across the globe have raised concerns with major U.S. banks today, urging them to halt their financing of… Read More
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Indonesia protesters denounce APP’s subsidiaries
Residents in South Sumatra, Indonesia, took three subsidiaries of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to court over the chronic smoke haze. Their pulpwood concessions are… Read More
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Financiers with RSPO membership should stop greenwashing Socfin
Palm oil company Socfin is linked to land grabbing, environmental damage, and human rights violations. Yet, Socfin holds the RSPO label, a certification for sustainable… Read More