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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
BlackRock’s silence on forest destruction
Since 2012, BlackRock has had 15 chances to vote in favor of shareholder resolutions to halt deforestation. One hundred percent of the time, it voted against action on deforestation. Read More
In Crisis, Learning from Ecologies of Care
As we face this crisis, there are important lessons we can learn to build the future we want to see as we recover. One of those lessons should be that transforming our relationship with the natural world may be our best bet for safeguarding our future. Read More
We need our tropical forests more than ever
Our violent disregard for biodiversity and our own part in the web of life has generated a perfect storm of global proportions. When the world returns to normal – if the world returns to normal – let’s use this time to think about which parts of normal we want to return to. Read More
The Case for Deforestation Free Investing
Who wants to retire into a world blazing with wildfires, raging with floods, and boiling over with mass discontent? Read More
Harvard and TIAA’s farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
TIAA, Harvard and the other institutions buying up farmland in Brazil and elsewhere around the world must stop pretending that their practices are sustainable. Read More
BlackRock’s recent statement on palm oil reveals an unhealthy addiction to climate risk
BlackRock, the $6.5 trillion Wall Street asset manager, has quietly released a statement on the company’s approach to engagement in the palm oil sector — an industry notorious for its role in destroying the planet’s last forests. Read More
In the Peatlands of South Sumatra: A Tale of Two Villages
The palm oil industry is responsible for destroying some 24 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest since 1990, much of it through burning. But because huge areas of Indonesia’s vast peat bogs have been drained and dried out to make way for the plantations, the industry has also unleashed flooding in places like Sumatra’s wetlands — flooding that claims lands and lives in a way that is largely invisible. Read More