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Oil and gas wells pose risks to health and environment as climate crisis expands California's fire hazard zones ...
The Brazilian Presidency’s flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – must be supported by sponsor governments also introducing stronger rules ...
We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...
We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...
A total of 154 countries signed the UNFCCC in June 1992, agreeing to combat harmful human impacts on the climate. Since then, COP meetings have been held (almost) annually to discuss how exactly that ...
Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...
Our findings suggest that a climate of fear in both Uganda and Tanzania is stopping civil society and communities from challenging the pipeline. TotalEnergies‘ representatives, contractors and ...
They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...
The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...
Key findings Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in ...
Until now the jade sector’s worth has been almost impossible to determine. But on the basis of new research and analysis, Global Witness estimates the value of jade production to have been as much as ...
Between 2013 and 2016 mining giant Glencore paid over $75m to Dan Gertler, a controversial businessman accused of bribing senior officials in Democratic Republic of Congo to advance his mining ...