News Archives - Forests & Finance

105 Organizations Demand Banks Stop Financing Industrial Livestock Production that Fuels the Climate Crisis

September 17, 2024

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

Indonesia protesters denounce APP’s subsidiaries

September 5, 2024

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

Financiers with RSPO membership should stop greenwashing Socfin

August 14, 2024

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

Parakanã People denounce attack by gunmen on the most deforested indigenous land in the country

July 22, 2024

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Credit restrictions needed for farms that use fire

July 12, 2024

Banco do Brasil financed farmer investigated for land grabbing with 96% deforested Farm

July 5, 2024

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Brazilian Central Bank evaluates proposals that oblige banks to quantify climate risk

July 4, 2024

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Contribution to the Public consultation by the Brazilian Central Bank on reporting

June 30, 2024

Cultivating conflict: How AAL, Brands and Big Finance capitalize on Indonesia’s Governance Gaps

June 25, 2024

prosecutors recommend banks in brazil to cancel finance to farms inside indigenous lands and conservation units

May 30, 2024

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