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The company’s New York Stock Exchange debut is overshadowed by its soaring legal liabilities and transparency concerns, ...
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Global Witness is celebrating the decision by a Municipal Trial Court in the Philippines to dismiss state-brought defamation ...
A new analysis reveals that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing ...
The climate non-profit, Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands), have just launched a court case against Shell ...
Intact forest and biodiversity in Acre state, Brazil, November 2020. (c) Lalo de Almeida/Panos/Global Witness The EU’s anti-deforestation law must not be weakened or delayed again – it needs to enter ...
Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...
The emissions from burning oil and gas produced by Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Chevron until 2050 could cause an estimated 11.5 million additional premature deaths due to heat before the ...
Rubber trees have replaced swathes of natural forest in parts of Africa. Owen Franken / Getty Industrial rubber plantations across west and central Africa linked to almost 520km2 of deforestation ...
European banks and investors – including Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole and Intesa Sanpaolo – are investing over €700 million in two companies that are helping fuel violence against the people of ...
Switching to hydrogen could cost €240 billion. Companies have lobbied so gas customers would pay. Gas companies want Europeans to heat their homes using hydrogen instead of fossil gas, a position the ...