Campaigns

Campaigns

You can see our archive of past campaigns or all countries and regions we have worked on. 

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    Forests

    Irresponsible businesses including financial institutions are driving the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests, and the communities and biodiversity that rely on them.
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    Land and environmental defenders

    Land and environmental defenders play a crucial role in protecting their land - and our climate - against destructive business practices.
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    Fossil fuels

    We are standing up to the fossil fuel industry to expose their political influence over decision-making, to break those ties, and ensure governments transition to genuinely renewable sources of energy.
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    Holding corporates to account

    We are campaigning for a global legal framework to hold companies and those who finance them to account for their impacts on people and planet.
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    Greenwashing

    Big polluters have spent decades denying climate change. Now, they’re using greenwashing and other tactics to promote false solutions to the climate crisis that distract and delay.
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    Digital threats

    Big tech and social media platforms depend on a business model where profit is made from stoking up anger and fear. Despite the serious consequences, companies are subject to little scrutiny
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    Transition minerals

    The need to phase-out fossil fuels has seen a rise in the demand for minerals that are critical to the energy transition. But mining is a dirty business, with a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental damage. We’re campaigning to make the companies extracting and processing transition minerals put people and the planet before profit.
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    Road to COP30

    In the run up to COP30, Global Witness is working to put communities, land and environmental defenders and civil society at the heart of climate-decision making
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