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A new analysis reveals that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing ...
The algorithm of social media platform TikTok is recommending twice the amount of far-right and nationalist right content to politically balanced users ahead of the Polish election runoff, new Global ...
2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. In the same year, both ExxonMobil and Chevron hit new highs in oil production, exacerbating the crisis they publicly claim to be addressing Global Witness ...
Reacting to the European Commission’s final ‘benchmarking’ criteria for countries under its anti-deforestation law, Giulia ...
The entrance to the Veolia San Silvestre Environmental Technology Park. Leonardo Granados / Global Witness Global Witness obtained a series of videos secretly filmed within the Veolia-managed site ...
Recommendations The government of Kenya should: Ensure that those responsible for the murder of Joannah Stutchbury are brought to justice. Recognise the rights of Indigenous peoples and local ...
The Philippines’ mining industry is open for business. But with skyrocketing global demand for minerals – critical for the transition to green energy – Indigenous groups and the country’s rich ...
Industry influx escalates calls to protect talks from Big Polluters At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku, underscoring an outsized polluter ...
Financial powerhouses including Barclays, Vanguard and BlackRock made millions from financing Brazilian meatpacker JBS, whose operations are driving destruction of Apyterewa Indigenous land A Parakanã ...
In 2022, a Global Witness investigation revealed a shocking reality at the heart of the green energy transition. Unregulated mines in Myanmar had become an essential source of heavy rare earth ...
Turiuara Indigenous community's camp in the middle of BBF’s palm plantation, Pará State, Brazil in June 2022.. Karina Iliescu / Global Witness As the world’s biggest importer, trillions of dollars’ ...