Weathering the Storm: Freeport’s Fight To Save Our Home
Looking through the blown-out windows of my living room, I see my neighbor’s eight-person tent. Their house is gone, and this is how we’re living in Freeport, Texas after Hurricane…
Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon
In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to…
Biodiversity on the Brink: Corporate Culpability and the Threat of Mass Extinction
Humans exist within a wildly complicated, nuanced, and interdependent network of life on planet Earth. We understand that network as biodiversity. Our existence is intricately connected with that of millions…
Impact in Indonesia: Pressure and Policies Help Forests Stay Intact
Although they can seem far away for many of us, our fight to keep rainforests intact is a fight for all of us. Our biodiversity, our climate, our very future,…
Visibility and People Power Fuel Campaign Results
At RAN, easy access to information and media amplification help move people in that direction. For example, when we published our Banking on Climate Chaos report, Forbes ran the headline…
RAN Supports BIPOC Activists At Climate Week Through Community Action Grants And Gets Ready for COP16
Activists from around the globe took to the streets of New York City the week of September 22nd in protests and events commemorating Climate Week 2024.
We Need an Economy that Doesn’t Kill Us
Kicking off New York Climate Week, RAN and Parliamentarians for a Fossil Free Future organized Financing the Future: Aligning Finance with the Promise of the Paris Agreement, a forum focused…
Activists Crashed a Black Tie Gala, Demanding Chubb Stop Insuring Methane
Last night, Manhattan’s business elite gathered at a prestigious black tie gala for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, where millionaires and top executives from coal companies, insurance companies and…
Banking on Biodiversity Collapse 2024: Banks and investors continue to finance deforestation while governments are “asleep at the wheel”
Despite international commitments such as the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), financing to sectors linked to deforestation continues to rise.
Why Boycotting Isn’t Our Main Pressure Strategy
At RAN we often hear the question, “Which products should I buy?” and “How can I shop ethically?” It’s a valid concern that reflects a deep desire to do right by the planet and each other. But, while avoiding certain products can be a potent form of resistance, this approach only touches the outermost layer of a much deeper, systemic issue. In fact, it doesn’t always have the impact we hope it will.
Greenwashing Alert: NextDecade Cancels Carbon Capture
By Toyo Kawakami, Japan Senior Advisor (Japan) & Ruth Breech, Senior Campaigner (US) In August 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits for…
Community Victory! Insurance giant Chubb drops coverage for Rio Grande LNG!
After fierce pressure from frontline organizers, climate activists, and allies – Chubb insurance has become the first major insurer to stop covering Rio Grande LNG, a dangerous methane gas export…
We crashed Procter & Gamble’s “Signal Conference” and got arrested
P&G met with corporate leaders to talk about “rising global uncertainty” as their business practices lay waste to frontline communities and rainforests.
There’s no Pride in Corporate Greed
As Pride celebrations continue to expand, we’ve witnessed an unsettling trend: corporate sponsors have increasingly taken center stage.
Feeding Deforestation: How millions of tons of palm oil are hidden in animal feed
Our latest report finds that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil category imported into the United States, and staple dairy products increasingly contain “embedded” palm oil.
Fossil Fuel Financing reaches $6.9 Trillion since the Paris Agreement
Fossil fuels are a dead end for people and the planet. Big banks are financing them anyway. 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, with an average global surface temperature…
We confronted the maker of Oreo and Chips Ahoy! in Chicago
We went to Network Effect in Chicago with a simple message: Mondelēz can’t have a good faith dialogue about sustainability if it refuses to clean up its supply chains.
Thousands held corporations accountable during the first-ever Global Insurance Week of Action!
Just like you need insurance to drive a car, fossil fuel companies need insurance to build and operate their infrastructure. That’s why they’re such a critical target in the fight…
Get Bank of America Back On Track: Background for AGM 2024
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Voices Support for Majority Action’s Exempt Solicitation Filing to Remove Clayton Rose, the Chair of Bank of America’s Enterprise Risk Committee and Responds to Bank of…
We Vacationed with the World’s Biggest Pillagers in Boca Raton
Last week, we dipped our toes in the warm waters of South Florida at a gathering of elite investment firms and consumer goods companies known as the Consumer Analyst Group…
Profiles in Community Action: RAN’s Community Action Grants Program in 2023
As the real-world impacts of hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise continue to accelerate, it is more clear than ever that the people who did the least to contribute…
Charting Our Course: Rainforest Action Network’s Five-Year Strategic Plan
The future of our planet remains in our hands at the moment. But any solutions toward a sustainable future lie at the intersection of forests, climate and human rights. For…
Banking on Biodiversity Collapse: Inaugural Report Reveals Major Bank and Investor Policies Accelerating Deforestation, Biodiversity Destruction, and Rights Violations
Behind the scenes, the finance sector is playing an outsized role in global deforestation by financing agribusiness and logging companies.
Breaking the Fracking Cycle: From Texas LNG to Europe
I joined a delegation of women who are on the frontlines of fighting fracking and liquefied methane gas (LNG) in Texas, where we toured European countries with ties to this…
Resourcing the Movement
2023 marks the 30th anniversary of our small grants program at Rainforest Action Network — Community Action Grants. Community Action Grants provides critical and rapid funding — sometimes the very…
