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Will consumer goods companies ensure justice for communities that have been robbed of their lands and livelihoods?
If a destructive palm oil company is suspended by consumer goods giants for land grabbing and human right abuses, will we finally get our land back? Read More
Sowing the Seeds of a Tropical Village Economy in the Mountains of Sumatra
This piece is a set of reflections from Jeff Conant, International Forests Program Director, during a recent trip to Indonesia to meet with local village communities. Villager displaying petai bean pods in Air Pahlawan // Photo Courtesy of Jeff Conant The village of Air Pahlawan in Sumatra,… Read More
Bunge’s Silent Conquest and the Corporate Climate Con
The agribusiness giant Bunge is engaging in an egregious corporate climate con – and shareholders should take note. Read More
Procter & Gamble Sources Suffering from Indonesia’s Forests
A report released by Friends of the Earth US and WALHI finds that Astro Agro Lestari are caught up in land conflicts with local communities, and are responsible for environmental and human rights abuses. Read More
Fighting to Win: How an Indonesian Land Defender Stood up to Conflict Palm Oil
As industrial agribusiness razes the world’s last standing forests and accelerate the climate crisis, land defenders are fighting back. Read More
Financial Incentives To Slow Deforestation Are Helpful – But Public Policies To Stop It Are Essential
by Jeff Conant, senior international forests program manager, and Merel van der Mark Among the first announcements made at COP26 was a promise made by over 100 countries to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. The promise came with a nearly $20 billion commitment of public and private finance to… Read More
At the World’s Largest Corporations, Personnel is Policy
The world’s largest asset managers call the climate emergency one of the largest material risks to long-term corporate stability. Read More
Bucking a long trend of negligence, shareholders urge Bunge to halt deforestation
A majority of shareholders voted yesterday for Bunge to explain its plans to deal with deforestation, it should be seen as a step forward in the financial sector’s willingness to tackle the issue. Read More
Three months since Procter & Gamble’s historic shareholder vote on forests, the company has no plans to end forest destruction.
The world’s largest consumer goods company continues failing to address concerns over its deforestation and forest degradation in the boreal forest of Canada and tropical forests of Indonesia and Malaysia. Read More
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Where is the finance sector?
Let’s be clear: all exploitation of resources by our industrial society depends on exploitation of the people within whose lands and territories those resources lie. Read More