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Sustainable loans made to fund agribusinesses' African and Asian rubber plantation expansion sidestep environmental and human rights concerns while enabling deforestation,...
Brazilian police now say a man has confessed to the murder of British reporter Dom Phillips and Brazilian land rights activist Bruno Pereira, both of whom failed to return from an investigative trip into a remote part of the Amazon. Global Witness is a not-for-profit group that has been tracking the killings of land defenders for the past 10 years. Marina Comandulli, a campaigner for Global Witness' land and environmental defenders team, says the attacks and killings are happening regularly all over the world and often go unreported.
The "EU demand for rubber is the most important contributor to Europe’s deforestation footprint across West and Central Africa," Global Witness says.
In 2022, the chemical giant’s subsidiary Wintershall has piped €14 billion worth of Russian gas across Germany and made €400 million from its Siberian gas and oil fields
A new report accuses the oil-and-gas industry of greenwashing the impact of carbon capture and storage technology, pointing to an oil-processing complex in Alberta that emits more carbon than it buries in the ground.