Forty-one environmental groups have today written to Japan’s Nippon Paper Group, which owns the Opal Australian Paper mill in Maryvale, Victoria, Australia, detailing concerns around the company’s Australian supply chain. The…
June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020
Talanx drops support for Trans Mountain pipeline and Munich Re could follow
Global campaign targets Liberty Mutual and remaining insurers of the Canadian tar sands pipeline CONTACT: Elana Sulakshana, (703) 589 0040 German insurer Talanx will no longer back Canada’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline,…
June 30, 2020
After ruling out Adani, Liberty Mutual must abandon plans to build a new coal mine in Australia
Liberty Mutual is coming under fire for backing the Baralaba South coal mine CONTACT: Elana Sulakshana, (703) 589 0040 Global pressure is mounting on one of the world’s largest insurers, Liberty Mutual,…
June 29, 2020
MUFG fails to commit to Paris alignment at 2020 AGM
ESG financing policy now weakest among Japanese megabanks Tokyo, Japan – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest bank, indicated at today’s annual shareholder meeting that it has no intention…
June 23, 2020
Somerville and Cambridge Join Growing Trend of Cities Calling on Insurance Companies to Stop Insuring and Investing in Fossil Fuels
Two City Resolutions Come on Heels of 38 MA Legislators Telling Liberty Mutual to Phase Out Insurance for the Keystone XL and TransMountain Pipelines and Other Fossil Fuel Infrastructure. Cambridge,…
June 2, 2020
Protect The Right to Protest and #DefendBlackLives
RAN supports the Movement for Black Lives and organizers across the country turning up in the streets and online demanding justice. m4bl.org/week-of-action/ Racial inequity is the foundation of systemic injustice…
May 29, 2020
Statement from Rainforest Action Network on the protests in Minneapolis and systemic racism.
Black lives matter — and systemic racism demands systemic change. Rainforest Action Network acts and speaks in solidarity against the systemic violence specifically experienced by Black people in the United…
May 27, 2020
Massachusetts State Legislators Call on Liberty Mutual to Cut Ties with Fossil Fuels
Legislators join growing campaign to push insurers to take meaningful climate action MA – Today, dozens of Massachusetts State Legislators called on Boston-based insurance company Liberty Mutual to address its role…
May 19, 2020
JPMorgan Chase Faces Unprecedented Vote Against Its Financing of Fossil Fuels
JPMorgan Chase shareholders’ revolt against Jamie Dimon and his failed record on climate change shows that days of acting as the house bank of the fossil fuel industry will have to end.
May 18, 2020
JPMorgan Chase, Under Fire From All Sides Over Fossil Financing, to Host Online AGM
World’s worst funder of climate change faces multiple shareholder resolutions, grassroots pressure.