Today, 10 rights-holders and civil society organizations are publicly responding for the first time to the UN Environment Program (UNEP)’s decision to dismiss their complaint about its role in the…
Press Releases
U.S. Environmental Group Calls on MUFG to End Fossil Fuel and Deforestation Financing
RAN challenges Japan’s largest bank for failing on climate, human rights, and governance July 2, 2025 — Tokyo, Japan — Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a U.S.-based environmental NGO headquartered in…
Banks fossil fuel finance totals $869 billion in 2024, a dramatic increase in financing
Annual Banking on Climate Chaos reports $429 billion of 2024 dollars are to fossil fuel expanding companies; totaling $1.6 trillion to these companies since 2021 June 17, 2025, New York,…
New Report from Rainforest Action Network Highlights the Leuser Ecosystem as a Proving Ground for Innovative, Landscape-Level Conservation
San Francisco, CA – May 28 , 2025 – Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) released a landmark report, Ten Years in the Leuser Ecosystem: A Rainforest Frontier Driving a…
Protesters Confront Mondelēz Over Deforestation and Human Rights Failures At Shareholder Meeting
Chicago, IL – As Mondelēz International (Nasdaq: MDLZ) prepares for its 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, public pressure is mounting. Today, activists gathered outside the company’s Chicago headquarters, calling…
Chubb Change: No Longer Insuring Calcasieu Pass LNG (CP1) for $1.5 Billion
Locals Ask: If Chubb No Longer Insures CP1, Can It Stop Insuring Other Harmful Methane Terminals? CAMERON, LA — An insurance certificate obtained through a public information act request for…
Greenberg appointed to FEMA – joining Trump’s attempt to cut disaster relief?
In reaction to the news that President Trump appointed Chubb insurance CEO Evan Greenberg to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council: “As climate disasters intensify it is critical…
RAN responds to Mondelēz’s ESG Annual Report
Mondelēz, the maker of Oreos, released its annual Snacking Made Right Report a few weeks before the company’s annual shareholder meeting, which will be held on May 21, 2025. Rainforest…
Japanese Megabank MUFG Found to be Financing Massive Carbon Bomb in Indonesia’s Peatlands
JAKARTA/TOKYO — An explosive new investigation by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has uncovered that Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been financing one of Indonesia’s worst environmental…
Chubb Becomes the 30th Major Insurer to Reject the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
For Immediate Release Date: 16 April 2025 Kampala, Uganda – The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) faces more challenges as Chubb, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel insurers,…
