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Who Decides What Development Looks Like?
Public development banks direct an estimated $2.2 trillion annually and help shape everything from infrastructure and energy systems to agriculture and rural development.
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Impacted Communities and Civil Society Groups File Complaint with Liberian Government Alleging Environmental and Human Rights Abuses by Golden Veroleum Liberia
The Liberian Government should ensure GVL restores the forests it’s destroyed and provides measurable compensation for lands taken from communities without consent.
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Banking on the Amazon
This Earth Day, we plan to deliver tens of thousands of petition signatures to the banks that have the power to prevent an uptick in Amazon destruction.
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To Transform Food Systems, We Need to Transform Finance
Across food systems, capital is still largely directed toward industrial agriculture, corporate consolidation, and short-term returns.
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Why Are Orangutans Endangered? The Real Causes — And How We Can Save Them
Why are orangutans endangered? Because their rainforest homes are being destroyed for profit.
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Financial Speculation Drives Massive Land Grabbing, Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado
New report shows international financial corporations fuel environmental destruction and displacement of traditional agrarian communities in world’s most biodiverse savannah.
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Civil society organizations urge palm oil body to maintain moratorium on Golden Veroleum Liberia to protect invaluable forests and communities
71 civil society organizations sent a public letter to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ahead of its annual meeting.
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A Pledge to Uphold the Human Right to Food on World Food Day 2025
The forest program at Friends of the Earth U.S. has for years focused on the primary drivers of tropical deforestation – palm oil, soy, cattle, and other agrocommodities.
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Today, the Forest is Quieter: On Jane Goodall’s Passing
Thank you, Jane, for showing us the world as it truly is: interconnected, precious, and worth fighting for.
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A Modest Proposal to Prevent Tropical Deforestation: Tax the Billionaires (And the Corporations They Own)
When oligarchs in the US or the EU build their wealth by extracting resources elsewhere – by and large from the resource-rich ecosystems and cheap labor of the global South – the problem demands a…