The report, based on interviews last year with 41 workers at two plantations on the island of Sumatra, was jointly released by San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Indonesian labour…
International Business Times: Big Banks Betting Against Climate Change Policies, Spending Billions On Fossil Fuel Projects: Report
“Big Banks Betting Against Climate Change Policies, Spending Billions On Fossil Fuel Projects: Report” (Read the full article here)
Common Dreams: World’s Banks Driving Climate Chaos with Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing
“Wall Street continues to back the most polluting fossil fuel industries “at the expense of some of the most vulnerable communities on the planet,” states new report (Read full article…
Daily Kos: Midday open thread: Biggest banks drive climate change; The Dalai Lama is hopeful
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Ecowatch: World’s Biggest Banks Are Driving Climate Change, Pumping Billions Into Extreme Fossil Fuels
“World’s Biggest Banks Are Driving Climate Change, Pumping Billions Into Extreme Fossil Fuels” (Read the full article here)
Politico Morning Energy – Reading Glasses: Greens Call out Banks for Fossil Fuel Investments
…”North American and European investment and commercial banking sectors has engaged in fossil fuel financing deeply at odds with the global climate agreement reached at COP 21 last December.” (Read…
Financial Times: Citi, Deutsche and JPMorgan censured for backing fossil fuel
News of RAN’s Shorting the Climate report broke on June 14th with an article in the Financial Times. The Times noted: Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase have delivered billions…
Eco-Business: PepsiCo supplier Indofood accused of child labour, violations
Robin Averbeck, senior campaigner, RAN, said that “this report reveals that Indofood is violating the fundamental rights of workers on its palm oil plantations, as PepsiCo watches on”. (Read full…
The Huffington Post: Damning Report Reveals Palm Oil’s Human Cost
The industry has been linked to mass animal die-offs, widespread razing of rainforests, displacement of indigenous communities, climate change and pollution. Now, according to a new report, the palm oil…
The Jakarta Post: NGO alleges abuses at Indofood plantations
The investigation exposed the alleged human suffering behind PepsiCo and Indofood’s foods, such as children working on the company’s plantations, unethically low wages and a lack of adequate health and…