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Forests

The world’s forests are rapidly disappearing, cleared for farming and the production of consumer goods. While some countries have banned high-risk imports, an oversight is the finance that keeps flowing to companies driving deforestation.

Protecting forest habitats is vital for reversing our planet’s twinned biodiversity and climate crises, yet major banks and investors go on supporting destructive agribusinesses, potentially implicating all our finances in the cull of climate-critical forests. We’re following the money to uncover these links and expose the extent of funding for deforestation.

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