“Wall Street: Steer Clear of JBS” — NGOs Warn Financiers of Risks Ahead of Meatpacker Giant’s NYSE Listing
Citigroup, Bank of America, BlackRock, Vanguard and Other Banks Are Enabling Environmental Destruction and Human Rights Abuses Associated with JBS NEW YORK — Today, several leading climate, agriculture, and animal…
World’s 50 Largest Banks and Investors Driving Deforestation Through Weak Policies and Major Investments, New Study Finds
Top investors BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, PNB, EPF, GPIF, and KWAP all amongst lowest-scoring The world’s 50 largest banks and investors are driving deforestation through weak policies and major investments…
The Money Behind the Big Business of Burning
Tropical forests do not burn by themselves — Big Agribusiness is setting the fires intentionally, as it’s the cheapest way to clear new land for palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, and beef. But they need the cash from the world’s mega banks and investors like fire needs oxygen — to defend our forests we need to defund the fires.
Rainforest Action Network Responds to BlackRock’s Climate Change Commitment
Statement from Patrick McCully, Climate and Energy Program Director at Rainforest Action Network “BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter lays down the gauntlet to other mega-money managers to also get…
Can You Believe We Pulled This Off?
The scale is just wild. From September to 20-27, thousands of climate strikes swept the globe. Millions of people of all backgrounds, ages, regions, and faiths flooded the streets, demanding…
Global NGOs: Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World’s Forests
Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon; “The Amazon is on fire. Corporations share the blame. They need to…
CNN: Opinion: We are facing a global emergency in the Amazon. Here’s what we can do
“The Amazon is burning, the Arctic is burning, and the list of scorched lands seems to continuously grow: Alaska, Greenland, Siberia, across Europe, and again in Indonesia. We must take action,…