Marine and coastland ecosystems are crucial for sustaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and preserving community livelihoods.
Six months after the UN Biodiversity Conference, 74 civil society organizations call on financial institutions to protect biodiversity and take action in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework Six months since its adoption, banks and financiers have yet to develop concrete plans to implement…
How Development Bank Investments in Industrial Livestock Are at Odds With Their Paris Agreement Commitments Download the executive summary Download the report Read the Inside Climate News story and our op-ed This report, authored by Friends of the Earth on behalf of the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign, and endorsed by eighteen civil society organizations, argues that multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) investments…
This case study, based on a detailed report, documents significant historical & current negative impacts of PRONACA’s factory farms.
The report examines the impacts of PRONACA’s factory farms and slaughterhouses on the natural resources and local and Indigenous communities of the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, west of Ecuador’s capitol, Quito.
More than 600,000 Native Americans (about 15% of the Indigenous people in the West) live within approximately 6 miles of an abandoned mine.
There are clear enforcement disparities in the way social media companies are moderating disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content in English compared to Spanish.
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.