Every Investor Has A Responsibility | Forests & Finance Dossier
We all know that keeping the world’s remaining tropical forests standing is essential for sustaining a healthy and habitable planet, but major institutional investors and banks still do not seem…
2016: From Financiers to the Forest Floor
It was a momentous year for RAN’s Forest Program. In 2016, RAN followed through in our commitment to challenge abuses of corporate power and to follow the money from the…
Op-Ed: The limits of bank self-regulation in fighting deforestation
Check out this Financial Times op-ed from Ben Goldsmith on the laws needed to stop banks from financing companies putting people and forests at risk. Banks and investors in Southeast…
Shareholders beware: Company misreporting on critical sustainability issues could cost you the earth
Are Japan’s biggest corporations deliberately misreporting sustainability or simply oblivious to the major environmental and social risks they face from deforestation footprints? Either way, shareholders beware; environmental and social risks…
International Coalition Calls for Emergency Sanctions Against Indonesian Forest Fire Culprits
Financial regulators are called on to do all that they can to prevent another environmental and public health disaster, as forest fires begin to blaze again in 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE…
Despite Historic Paris Climate Agreement, Southeast Asia Braces for Another Catastrophic Fire Season
Last week was critical for the world’s forests and climate. First, around 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate agreement which recognizes the crucial role forests play in the fight…
