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04 June 2024
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A new chapter is about to start for corporate accountability

24 April 2024
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Honduras: why urgent action is still needed in one of the deadliest places to defend the planet

04 March 2024
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Oil giants transfer record wealth to their investors

08 February 2024
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Five takeaways from the CSDDD: the EU’s new corporate accountability law

18 December 2023
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Why Indigenous voices must be central to negotiations at COP28

29 November 2023
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The climate law the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want

16 October 2023
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Social media bosses must invest in guarding global elections against incitement of hate and violence

18 September 2023
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A terrible trade-off: burger today, rainforest gone tomorrow?

03 August 2023
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Hopes and fears for forests in a divided Brazil

04 May 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Defending the defenders: why Brazil must prioritize ratification of the Escazú Agreement

19 April 2023
Forests

To save the Amazon, Brazil needs China’s commitment

11 April 2023
Forests

Money talks: the financial sector must raise its voice to save the world’s forests

21 March 2023
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Delikado: the film exposing the criminality lurking behind Palawan in the Philippines

13 March 2023
Forests

Financial Services and Markets Bill holds the key to ending UK financing of deforestation, say Lords across the political spectrum

08 March 2023
Forests

Three ways Lula and Biden can work together to fight deforestation

10 February 2023
Forests

Tackling global forest loss: What the US can do

26 January 2023
Forests

Out with the old and in with the new: What Brazil’s new president means for forests and environmental defenders

23 January 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Berta Cáceres: New rules for banks could help stop defender killings

23 January 2023
Fossil Fuels

New emissions data presented at Davos should be used to hold Big Oil to account

20 January 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Vietnam lands Just Energy Transition Partnership

21 December 2022
Land and Environmental Defenders

Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27

21 December 2022
Forests

Companies can’t just walk away from their polluting assets – they must remedy their destruction

21 December 2022
Forests

The biodiversity crisis cannot end until governments tackle deforestation financing at home

15 December 2022
Corporate Accountability

End the underinvestment in climate action

29 November 2022
Digital Threats to Democracy

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the need for government regulation of social media companies

11 November 2022
Forests

Stop bankrolling deforestation

18 October 2022
Forests

Why I joined yesterday's protest against BlackRock during Climate Week NYC

22 September 2022
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Loopholes undermine sanctions: the Russian Shipping Forecast

01 August 2022
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A transformative loophole: American sanctions fail to screen out Russian-origin petroleum products

21 July 2022
Fossil Fuels

German government breaks sanctions regime for Russian gas

15 July 2022
Forests

Pricey food, precious forests: The invasion of Ukraine, global food security and deforestation

06 April 2022

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