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IPCC wakeup call to investors: Stop profiting from climate crisis and human rights abuses
Friends of the Earth US and Transnational Institute released new research calling for urgent action to rein in the financiers driving the climate emergency and profiting from its most devastating impa…
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Cashing in on Crisis: How the World’s Largest Investors Fuel and Profit from Climate Change and Border Militarization
These industries are responsible for increasing greenhouse gas emissions, widespread environmental destruction, and gross human rights abuses.
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IDB Invest Drops Controversial Loan to Brazilian Beef Giant Marfrig Global Foods
Public development finance should not be channeled to large-scale industrial livestock operations like Marfrig that fuel deforestation and the climate crisis.
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Assemblymember Kalra Re-Introduces Bill to Encourage Sustainable Government Purchasing
Tropical forests cover roughly seven percent of the Earth’s surface but harbor close to half of all species on Earth.
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Fighting to Win: How an Indonesian Land Defender Stood up to Conflict Palm Oil
As industrial agribusiness razes the world’s last standing forests and accelerate the climate crisis, land defenders are fighting back.
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Indonesia’s Cancellation of Thousands of Plantation and Mining Permits Should Be Followed by Restitution of Land to Local Communities
The Indonesian government’s decision is a positive step in taking responsibility for reigning in corporate abuses.
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Financial Incentives To Slow Deforestation Are Helpful – But Public Policies To Stop It Are Essential
Among the first announcements made at COP26 was a promise made by over 100 countries to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. The promise came with a nearly $20 billion commitment o…
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Letter to IDB on Marfrig Loan
The undersigned communities and civil society organizations urge you to not approve the proposed $43 million loan for Marfrig Global Foods
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200 NGOs Worldwide Oppose Public Funding of Brazilian Meat Giant Marfrig
If IDB-Invest is genuinely committed to tackling climate change, it must drop this loan and stop funding industrial livestock operations