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Among the largest agricultural companies, US-based Cargill is financed by major banks like BNP Paribas despite failing to meet zero deforestation by 2020 commitments and an extensive legacy of rights abuses and unceasing environmental degradation in Brazil. Banks are lagging behind international best practices on environment and human rights. Read More
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JBS is the largest meatpacker in the world and a major Amazon deforester. Banks like Bradesco, Bank of America and Mizuho have enabled JBS by providing US$718 million in forest-risk beef credit. Banks should implement policies to end complicity in JBS’s destruction. Read More
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Companies allegedly under common control of Singaporean-based pulp and paper producer, RGE Group, are driving deforestation in Indonesia. Without policies applied to the entire corporate group, RGE’s creditors issue billions in sustainability loans while exposed to deforestation risks, leaving communities vulnerable. Read More
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Sinar Mas Group’s pulp and palm oil supply chains are linked to egregious rights abuses, greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. Despite failing to end deforestation, SMG remains the largest recipient of finance for tropical forest-risk commodities receiving US$ 20 billion in credit since 2019. Read More
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New analysis documents $307 billion flowing from big finance into forest-risk commodities driving massive tropical deforestation CONTACT: Laurel Sutherlin, laurel@ran.org, +1 415.246.0161 *… Read More
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