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Leaving No One Behind?: the Heated Landscape of Financing for Development

Mining, oil and gas and industrial agribusiness driving 90 percent of forest and biodiversity destruction, and while there are tireless campaigns everywhere to reign in the destruction, if the incentives don’t change, the outcomes won’t change either. Read More

Friends of the Earth U.S. Analysis on the Biden Administration’s Deforestation Policy Framework

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris administration released a 6-point policy framework for reducing US imports of products tied to deforestation. Friends of the Earth US commends the outgoing Administration’s delivery of this framework and guidance on the direction of the US government’s commitment to halt… Read More

Gov. Hochul, sign the TREES Act now

The TREES Act — which passed the Legislature in May — would require New York state to prove it is not purchasing products driving deforestation. If signed, it would be the first anti-deforestation law in the U.S. Read More

BlackRock can’t hide: How a new complaint targets the world’s largest asset manager for deforestation and human rights abuses

When we consider the tragic increase in deforestation in the last year (16 million acres permanently lost – let alone 10 times that amount degraded from logging, road building and forest fires), or when we call to mind the tragic violence against those defending their land… Read More

Indigenous Leader Faces Murder Attempt, Death Threats Amid Intensifying Land Grabbing and Deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness companies operating in the Brazilian Cerrado continue to drive violence, intimidation, and dispossession against Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and environmental human rights defenders Read More

Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Escalating Conflict by Astra Agro Lestari in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Rather than pursuing a peaceful resolution following these recent business suspensions, Astra Agro Lestari is fomenting further violence and intimidation. Read More

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