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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…
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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.
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Activists protest BlackRock’s ‘hot air’ on climate change
In a series of demonstrations after BlackRock’s annual shareholder meeting today, activists in New York City, San Francisco, and London staged socially distanced protests to criticize the financial…
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Golden Veroleum Liberia Lays Off Workers, Endangers Communities, Highlighting Failure of Industrial Plantation Model
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company operating in Liberia since 2012, announced recently that it is laying off 440 workers – about a tenth of its workforce – due to unsustainable loss…
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Groups call on Harvard University to stop land grabs as new report exposes harm done to communities in Brazil
Rural communities in Brazil are suffering from food shortages, chemical pollution and violent human rights abuses because of large land deals made by Harvard University in the years following the 2008…
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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 wo…
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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 –…
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Pressure from environmental groups drives POSCO International to adopt “No Deforestation” policy in Indonesia
Following years of pressure from environmental and human rights groups, POSCO International, South Korea’s largest trading company, has adopted a zero-deforestation policy for its global palm oil op…
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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?