Ranking global contributors to "forest-risk" finance: China’s rise to the top. Chinese banks became the largest creditors of “forest-risk” companies globally between 2018-2024 – excluding financial ...

A COP blind spot – until now. So far, these impacts have not been addressed by the UNFCCC – the body tasked with stopping climate change. But the UN Secretary-General’s own 2024 Panel on Critical ...

The reported legal liabilities from complaints faced by meat giant JBS have more than tripled from US $1.8 billion as of June 2023 to $6.9 billion at the end of 2024, new findings from Global Witness ...

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Investigative campaigning organisation Global Witness is adding further wealth of new experience to its board of non-executive directors in 2025 by welcoming a new board member. Joining the ...

Across the world, people who speak up to protect their environment and communities face growing risks. Land and environmental defenders are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our planet from ...

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 ...

Fossil fuel companies have our future in a chokehold. They’ve captured our politicians’ ears, infiltrated climate summits and fuelled and funded war. We’re exposing how far fossil fuel companies will ...

Currently serving as the interim Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Sushma served as Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (now the Carr-Ryan Center) at Harvard Kennedy ...

Hurricanes are battering the US coastline. Megadroughts have parched the south-west. The Arctic circle is burning. Yet North America’s role as a global leader in climate action hangs in the balance.