Pressure grows on governments and banks to stop supporting Amazon oil and gas
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
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An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
Countries and banks financing new fossil fuel projects in the Amazon rainforest have come under increasing pressure ahead of Cop28.
“The vast majority of consumers don’t give their toilet paper purchase a lot of thought, because it’s pretty unbelievable that it’s fueling such devastating forest loss — something you use for a few seconds and then flush,” says the NRDC.
Did your handbag help destroy the rainforest?
They may seem worlds apart, but deforestation in the Amazon is partly fuelled by something that’s on display in every fashion capital this month: leather.