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Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations
Land defenders continue to be under threat, and companies that have profited from activities in the region have a responsibility to prevent these threats.
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Chronicle of a Palm Oil Ecocide
In 2015, two massive pollution events in the Pasión River resulted in the death of tens of thousands of fish and affected the economic livelihood of least 12,000 people from 20 indigenous communities…
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Invested in Exploitation? TIAA’s Ties to Land Grabbing and Deforestation
The investment management firm TIAA is leading a trend of speculating in land markets, which drives up farmland prices and displaces family farmers.
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Is California Selling Climate Illusions?
The Governor has spent the last months promoting the expansion of complicated market-based carbon trading mechanisms, known as “Cap-and-Trade,” as a cornerstone of state and global climate policy
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TIAA tied to deforestation and displacement of farmers, environmentalists claim in new report
Deforestation is a major driver of climate destruction, and we’d like to see TIAA stop being part of the problem, and become part of the solution.
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Activists and clients tell TIAA to stop investments linked to deforestation and displacement of local farmers
TIAA’s investments support palm oil companies that raze forests and drive species to extinction. It is time for TIAA to reveal and reduce their ties to this destruction and truly practice social res…
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Friends of the Earth announces historic verdict in Indonesia’s fight against deforestation
Palm oil from Central Kalimantan is in thousands of consumer food products and cosmetics on the global market, as well as in biofuels in many countries; numerous palm oil companies implicated in the d…
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Palm Oil Divestment Goes Mainstream
There’s a lot more to be done by Dimensional and every other US investment firm – but this signals an important first step in moving away from funding destructive palm oil practices
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Guatemalan land defenders are under threat and need justice
The best way to defend our lands, rivers and forests is to speak out for the defenders—the people at the front lines of these struggles—so they may live on to continue fighting for all of us.