2022 was a historic year. After decades of advocacy, we won the largest investment ever to fight climate change.
The undersigned organizations welcome the opportunity to provide input on the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's (DFC) review of its Environmental and Social Policy and Procedures (ESPP).
The TREES Act was introduced to prevent the state from procuring goods on degraded tropical land was introduced.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is considering supporting the Syrah Balama Graphite Mine in Mozambique despite local communities not being employed by the project, families not receiving proper compensation and impacted community members being unaware of their rights.
Plastics pollute throughout the supply chain – from fossil fuel extraction to processing and manufacturing at petrochemical plants.
The briefing paper explains why it is important for banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to harmful activities which negatively impact or alter free flowing rivers.
The paper, called “Protecting biodiversity from harmful financing: Intact primary and vulnerable secondary forests,” details how banks and financiers are driving forest degradation and deforestation by financing sectors tied to high forest risks.
Our analysis suggests ESG investing was given an ideologically charged framing from a network of influential, anti-“woke” actors and became yet another climate-related culture war topic leading up to COP27.
By passing this bill, New York State would join a movement to tackle the root causes of tropical forest destruction.