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April 22, 2020

Japan’s 2nd Largest Bank – Mizuho – Adopts NDPE Criteria for Forest Sector Clients and Announces Strictest ESG Policies To Date In Japan – Beating… Read More

January 20, 2020

A report by TuK Indonesia and Profundo found that financing in the pulp and paper sector exposes financiers to high ESG risk. Of the 8… Read More

December 11, 2019

Report released on the five year anniversary of Indonesia’s Sustainable Finance roadmap examines the successes and failures of this initiative  Read More

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 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