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Rainforests explained: Where they are, what they do and why they’re crucial for our planet

22 June 2023
Forests

Santander and BlackRock continue to turn a blind eye to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco

21 June 2023
Forests

Banking on destruction: Tracking deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon – and exposing its backers

24 April 2023
Forests

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

21 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
Land and Environmental Defenders

Runaway Risk

02 February 2023
Forests

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

15 December 2022
Forests

MPs show cross-party support for ending the financing of deforestation in UK

12 December 2022
Forests

Zero Progress? One year on from COP26, GFANZ investors remain heavily exposed to deforestation

09 November 2022
Forests

140+ NGOs urge EU institutions to give teeth to anti-deforestation law

18 October 2022
Forests

Stop bankrolling deforestation

18 October 2022
Forests

Bankrolling deforestation: Central banks accused of financing environmental destruction

28 September 2022
Forests

The UK's new PM has a "once in a generation" opportunity to make the UK a global green finance centre and curb deforestation

01 September 2022
Forests

Cash Cow

23 June 2022
Forests

Vast Norwegian government fund has warned Brazilian beef giant Marfrig it may divest over its links to deforestation – will other investors follow?

21 January 2022
Forests

Deforestation Dividends

21 October 2021
Forests

Capital is tearing down one of the last great rainforests – we need government action to protect them

07 October 2021
Forests

The supply chain linking beef to Amazon deforestation, with banks’ backing

02 June 2021
Land and Environmental Defenders

Majority of Bunge shareholders vote for measures on deforestation but green groups issue urgent call for action

06 May 2021
Corporate Accountability

Why EU action to tackle deforestation should not let finance off the hook

03 February 2020
Forests

Money to burn

23 September 2019
Forests

China’s role in global forest governance and the revision of its Forest Law

31 July 2019
Land Deals

Is rubber the new palm oil?

21 March 2019
Forests

The forest avengers

17 January 2019
Land Deals

8 facts about sustainable finance – and how it affects you

23 May 2018
Forests

Liberia: Holding the line

14 February 2017
Land Deals

Regulating risk: Why the EU needs laws to guard against land grabbing

04 November 2016
Forests

How to future-proof the EU’s efforts to save the world’s last rainforests

11 March 2016
Forests

Two Worlds Collide: How construction in Japan is driving destruction in Malaysia's last rainforests

05 December 2014
Forests

US$150 million partnership between Norway and Liberia to stop logging

23 September 2014
Forests

Japan’s timber imports fuelling rainforest destruction in Sarawak and violation of indigenous land rights

03 July 2014
Forests

Monitoring forestry operations and investors

22 May 2013

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