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Climate change played a role in the devastating floods, yet the fossil fuel industry continues to receive billions in ...
Patrick Galey, Head of Fossil Fuel Investigations at Global Witness said: "As much of Britain shelters from Storm Floris, BP is cashing in once again on inflated energy bills that continue to soar ...
Meat giant JBS’s US stock market debut exposes the deep flaws in the global financial system and raises urgent questions for ...
Augmenta is an AI agent that can take a dataset and perform basic research on each entry in it using a search engine and the ...
While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...
Key findings Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in ...
Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...
French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...
Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked to deforestation, despite a law introduced in 2021 to clean up supply chains and ban such trade. New analysis from Global Witness reveals ...
While Trump zeroes in on embattled Ukraine's critical mineral reserves, conflict and inequality clash with efforts for a just energy transition across the globe The extraction and trade of some ...
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...