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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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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
by Jeff Conant, senior international forests program manager, and Merel van der Mark Among the first announcements made at COP26 was a promise made by over 100 countries to halt and reverse…
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P&G dogged by controversy on forests, human rights at annual meeting for third year in a row
Environmental advocacy groups raised concerns and activists protested for a third year in a row at Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) annual general meeting of shareholders.
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At the World’s Largest Corporations, Personnel is Policy
The world’s largest asset managers call the climate emergency one of the largest material risks to long-term corporate stability.
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Climate advocacy groups launch ‘vote no’ campaign against P&G Board of Directors
Climate groups are launching a campaign encouraging investors to vote against two key members of Procter & Gamble’s Board of Directors.
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Bunge shareholders vote for measures on deforestation
Shareholders in Bunge Limited last week threw their weight behind a call for the company to do more to protect forests in Brazil.
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Bucking a long trend of negligence, shareholders urge Bunge to halt deforestation
A majority of shareholders voted yesterday for Bunge to explain its plans to deal with deforestation, it should be seen as a step forward in the financial sector’s willingness to tackle the issue.
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Shareholder resolution passes, urging Bunge to disclose plans to halt deforestation
Shareholders in agribusiness company Bunge Limited voted today for the company to evaluate and disclose its efforts to eliminate deforestation from its operations.