Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | Oct. 19, 2020 Preserving climate-critical forests with the support of Arcadia Global Witness is very pleased to announce a new grant of £1.5million from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. This three-year grant (2020–2023) will support our Forests Campaign, which aims to preserve the worlds’ most climate-critical tropical forests by tackling the finance that is bankrolling deforestation. Press release | Oct. 6, 2020 Global Witness, BankTrack and 19 other civil society organisations call on UK government not to leave finance out of a proposed new law on deforestation Today, over twenty organisations sent an open letter to the UK government calling for the finance industry not to be left out of a proposed new law to tackle the UK’s contribution to global deforestation Press release | Oct. 6, 2020 Open letter: Don't leave finance out of a future law on imported deforestation In light of the continued role of UK finance in backing companies associated with deforestation, we hope the UK government will ensure that legislation covers financial institutions Press release | Oct. 5, 2020 Global Witness welcomes calls by major businesses for stronger UK legislation on global deforestation Global Witness welcomes today’s open letter by major businesses including McDonalds, Unilever, Marks & Spencer , Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Lidl, Nando's and Nestle, calling for tougher new rules to tackle deforestation in UK supply chains. Press release | June 22, 2020 A letter to the Consumer Goods Forum: It’s Time to Stop the Fires and Deliver on ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ Commitments Companies should be delivering on crucial deforestation commitments. Press release | May 11, 2020 Global finance enabling community exploitation, human rights abuses - and the destruction of one of the world’s most biodiverse rainforests This has destroyed swathes of highly biodiverse climate-critical forest, and is linked to exploitation of local communities. Press release | March 16, 2020 Global Witness calls for end to judicial harassment of prize winning Cambodian activist Ouch Leng and environmental defenders protecting Cambodia’s climate-critical Prey Lang Forest Global Witness welcomes the release from Police custody today of Goldman Prize winning forest protection activist Ouch Leng and three other environmental defenders and calls on the Cambodian authorities to drop all investigations into their activities Press release | Feb. 28, 2020 Congo oil project obtained by ‘corruption risk’ magnate threatens climate-critical peatland forest Investigation reveals world’s largest tropical peatlands under threat from oil drilling by a company with close links to Republic of Congo’s ruling family Press release | Feb. 10, 2020 Forests BNP Paribas, Natixis and Crédit Agricole implicated in financing global forest destruction A Global Witness investigation has revealed the scale of the French financial sector’s investment in global deforestation, including by household name banks in France Press release | Dec. 13, 2019 Forests Global Witness celebrates the news that players of People’s Postcode Lottery have now raised more than half a billion pounds for good causes The funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery helps us continue to investigate how and why destructive deforestation occurs. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10