Rainforest Action Network

The greatest threat to global rainforests is the rapid proliferation of soy and palm oil plantations owned by U.S. agribusinesses like ADM, Bunge and Cargill. RAN is calling on agribusinesses to protect these vital ecosystems by stopping industrial agrisprawl.

• The Protect-an-Acre program
• Growing Disaster: How Agribusiness Expansion into Rainforests is Threatening the Climate

Coal is the country's largest, dirtiest source of electricity and climate-changing greenhouse gases. U.S. coal plants are a leading cause of asthma and lung cancer. Despite what the coal industry would have us believe, there’s no such thing as “clean coal.” RAN is calling for a complete halt to new coal development and demanding that banks divert funding away from coal and into renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and energy efficiency initiatives.

• Coal is Over
• Fund the Future

By balancing boardroom negotiations with grassroots pressure, RAN’s Global Finance team is holding banks accountable for the climate-changing industries they finance. Don’t let Wall Street use your money to bankroll climate change. See how you can become a part of the solution.

• Banks: Twelve Steps for Climate
• Banks: Calculating Climate Footprints
• Bank Policies
• Canadian banks’ checking account carbon-footprint calculator

Canada's five largest banks – RBC, Scotiabank, Toronto-Dominion, BMO and CIBC – are destroying Canadian wilderness and communities by bankrolling oil, gas and forestry operations that spoil critical habitat for threatened and endangered species; fuel global warming; and contribute to human rights abuses. RAN is urging these banks to adopt comprehensive policies that address the environmental and human impacts of their lending.

• Canadian Banks
• Canadian banks financing of global warming
• The Boreal Forest

Mass production of fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid electric vehicles powered by clean, cheap, domestic electricity is one way to wean America off oil. Using existing technology to improve the efficiency of traditional internal combustion engines is another. There's no shortage of options that, if adopted, will pay huge dividends for the environment and the climate.

• Freedom from Oil: Alternatives to oil
• Plug-in Hybrids