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…
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…
MUFG Falls Behind Peers in New ESG Finance Policy Announcement
MUFG’s policy revisions “disappointing,” says Rainforest Action Network Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), released a revised Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) financing policy today, but fell short…
Reuters: MUFG puts oil sands, Arctic drilling on ‘restricted transactions’ list
““MUFG’s recognition of tar sands and Arctic oil & gas as high risk sectors deserve some credit, but the newly adopted policies fail to establish clear no-go zones for financing,”…
South China Morning Post: Tokyo 2020 ‘fake sustainability’: new Olympics report attracts heat from orangutan and rainforest activists
“US-based Rainforest Action Nethawork (RAN) was one of more than 40 NGOs calling on the IOC in 2016 to demand organisers refrain from sourcing wood from endangered tropical forests in…
Citigroup Announces New Coal Policy; Climate Advocates Respond
Rainforest Action Network, Indigenous Environmental Network and Amazon Watch issue statements San Francisco– Ahead of its 2020 Annual General Meeting, taking place tomorrow, Citigroup has published an updated version of…
SMBC Misses Critical Opportunity to be a Climate Leader
SMBC’s New Climate Policy Falls Well Short of Mizuho’s All Eyes Now on Largest Bank MUFG Tokyo – Today, Japan’s third-largest bank – Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group, TYO:…
29 Nobel Laureates Condemn Chevron Pollution in Ecuador and Demand Freedom for Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger
Alec Baldwin, Roger Waters, and other activists join Nobel laureates in their demand that Chevron clean up its pollution, pay court-ordered compensation, and cease the persecution of Donziger, who has…
Japan’s Third Largest Bank – SMBC Group – In Discussions To Finance New Coal Export Terminal in California Amidst Pledge to Quit Coal Power
Contact: Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network, (415) 246-0161 laurel@ran.org Margaret Rossoff, No Coal in Oakland, (510) 459-6054 margaretmft@gmail.com Oakland, CA — Today, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group) announced…
Japan’s 2nd Largest Bank – Mizuho – Announces Strictest ESG Policies To Date In Japan
Strengthens protections for climate & forests, setting new benchmark for Japanese banks San Francisco – Today, Mizuho Financial Group (8411:Tokyo) –– Japan’s 2nd largest bank and a prominent financier of…