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African Peoples Tribunal to Dismantle Power of Industrial Plantation Corporations, Building People Power
Affected communities and civil society will bring testimonies on cases of human rights violations and environmental degradation connected with monoculture tree plantations expansion from ten countries…
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Ferguson, up for Treasury Secretary, leaves a legacy of misleading claims to social responsibility
As Wall Street executive Roger Ferguson Jr. is shortlisted for Secretary of the Treasury under President-elect Joe Biden’s new administration, new analysis reveals that his Fortune 100 finance firm…
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TIAA’s Accumulation of Farmland is Not Responsible
TIAA’s “Responsible Investment in Farmland” report series highlights the fact that in 2011 TIAA was one of a group of businesses that developed the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Far…
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P&G investors challenge CEO over forest destruction concerns at company’s annual meeting
Procter & Gamble’s shareholders that defied the company’s own recommendations, two-thirds of Procter & Gamble (P&G) shareholders voted “yes” at the company’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Octob…
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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.
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Forests and Human Rights: Principles for Asset Managers
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has no clear policy on forests, land, and human rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
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Doubling Down on Deforestation
Analyzing how the Big Three asset managers enable consumer goods companies to destroy the world’s forests.
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Largest US Investors Undermine Efforts to Halt Rainforest Destruction, new report finds
As rainforests across the tropics face another year of devastating fires, a new report from Friends of the Earth shows that largest U.S. asset managers, BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – known…
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BlackRock falls short on 2020 climate votes
New York, NY – Today, BlackRock released a new investment stewardship report. In the report the world’s largest asset manager detailed how it voted during the 2020 shareholder season which wa…
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Forest advocates present asset managers with essential principles for forest and human rights protections
Today, long-time advocates for the protection of earth’s remaining tropical forest lands and the people, including Indigenous communities who live in them, presented a set of essential principles as…