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 | Dec. 11, 2019 Forests Brazil New letter from 50 organisations urges investors and banks to note major risks of exposure to Amazon deforestation of buying shares in global meatpackers JBS and Marfrig Open letter urges investors to note the link between the world’s largest beef traders and devastating deforestation in the Amazon. Press release | Dec. 11, 2019 Forests Brazil Open Letter to global investors and financial service providers On the risk of exposure to Amazon Deforestation in reported sale by the Brazilian National Development Bank of shares in JBS and Marfrig Press release | Nov. 12, 2019 Forests Brazil Major meatpackers and the banks that fund them must do more to stop the destruction of the Amazon New results suggest major meatpackers could be doing more to curb destructive deforestation in the Amazon. Press release | Oct. 15, 2019 Forests European Union Global witness joins NGOs to urge the EU to stop deforestation Global Witness calls on the EU to ensure companies and financial institutions conduct due diligence across supply chains and investments. Press release | Sept. 23, 2019 Forests Papua New Guinea Congo-Brazzaville Brazil Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction A truly global picture of major financial players driving $44 billion into companies involved in deforestation Press release | Sept. 6, 2019 Forests Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Strict safeguards crucial for new Central African Forests Initiative partnership that could threaten the Congo’s peatland Call on the Central African Forests Initiative to ensure strict conditions and safeguards in its new partnership Press release | April 16, 2019 Forests D.R. Congo Congolese General sanctioned by U.S. and EU for human rights abuses is trading in illegal logging permits over DRC’s climate-critical forests, Global Witness reveals A notorious Congolese army officer illegally traded timber licences in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the run-up to disputed presidential elections at the end of last year, Global Witness reveals today. Press release | April 10, 2019 Forests Peru Peru’s forest inspection agency regains independence The Peruvian government yesterday published a decree that restores the independence of vital forest crime agency OSINFOR. Press release | March 14, 2019 Forests D.R. Congo Ten European companies could be importing illegal Congo timber worth millions to the EU, new Global Witness investigation reveals As well as wreaking havoc on climate-critical rainforests, this could be a direct breach of the European Union Timber Regulation. Press release | March 11, 2019 Forests China New analysis shows a worrying surge in exports of tropical timber to Vietnam and China from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018 New analysis shows a worrying surge in high-risk DRC timber to Vietnam and China. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10