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Recent events in Israel and Iran show once again our economic vulnerabilities to oil price shocks and how inadvisable it is for the current Administration to pull back US investments in clean energy..
The money is there, it’s just in the wrong hands This isn’t a funding crisis. It’s a fairness crisis. For decades, fossil fuel companies have used their power to rig the system by lobbying against ...
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 ...
In a fight between a jaguar and a cow, who do you think would win? If you guessed South America's most powerful predator, you’d be wrong.. As industrial agriculture like cattle ranching destroys ...
Mercury exposure is associated with a range of serious health complications, including impacts on pregnant woman and infant brain development.Local people had previously sounded the alarm over ...
Cattle is the biggest culprit. Cattle products from Brazil are the worst offender for deforestation from the list of the UK’s direct imports, linked to 12,856ha between November 2021 and December 2024 ...
Following the mapping in 2017 of vast peatlands beneath the forest containing a staggering 30 billion tons of carbon, scientists now believe that the Congo Basin is the world’s most vital rainforest ...
This figure is set to increase as the government courts foreign investment in its mining industry. In early 2024, the government bowed to industry pressure and agreed to begin fast tracking mining ...
We were interested to see how Azerbaijan’s leadership of the conference was being discussed online. Ahead of last year’s COP, two investigations uncovered inauthentic X accounts praising the UAE’s ...
An estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2023 around the world, according to a new Global Witness report published today The new figures take the total number of defenders ...
Funds marketed as environmentally friendly are being used by major asset managers to funnel millions of dollars to the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, a company notorious for its links to ...
To tackle the climate crisis, we need to transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources. Transition minerals – such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper and rare earths – are ...