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CalPERS’s New Policy Is a Good Step Forward for Forests and Human Rights
CalPERS’s new policy gives extraordinary attention to some crucial climate issues: deforestation, land use and the related human and labor rights issues.
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CalPERS Investment Policy a Victory for People and the Planet
Under the new policy, CalPERS will become the first large asset manager in the U.S., public or private, to formally recognize that deforestation and ecosystem degradation pose material investment risk…
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High Risk in the Rainforest
New findings indicate that GVL has failed to reform its operations, despite numerous complaints led with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2012, including a comprehensive set of com…
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Report: Liberian Palm Oil Company GVL Destroyed Dense Rainforests, Violated Land Rights, Endangered Chimpanzee Habitat
A new report revealed today that since 2015, palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia has destroyed at least several hundred hectares of forests that are vital habitat for chimpanzees and other endemi…
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Palm Oil on the Precipice
In addition to destroying endangered species’ habitats and driving deforestation contributing to climate change, palm oil companies are responsible for land grabbing and gross violations of local co…
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Global Campaign Exposes BlackRock for Devastating Climate Impacts of Investments
BlackRock, with over $6.3 trillion of assets under management, is a leading investor in sectors driving climate change: coal, oil, gas and deforestation, as well as the banks that finance them.
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BlackRock’s Climate Problem
BlackRock knows it has a climate problem, as this 2016 report demonstrates. And, for starters there are a number of reasonably easy things BlackRock can do to begin phasing out climate destruction fro…
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In the Forests of Liberia the Promise of Palm Oil Sows Anger and Doubt
In the forests of southeastern Liberia, frustrations are mounting with the vibrations of power saws and bulldozers.
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Is land speculation helping destroy Brazil’s “birthplace of waters”?
The Cerrado’s native vegetation once covered nearly 800,000 square miles — an area bigger than Great Britain, France, and Germany combined. Today, less than half of it remains.
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Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco
GVL has destroyed their sacred sites, polluted their drinking water, and curtailed their access to their forests and livelihoods.