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Climate change played a role in the devastating floods, yet the fossil fuel industry continues to receive billions in ...
Meat giant JBS’s US stock market debut exposes the deep flaws in the global financial system and raises urgent questions for regulators, investors and the future of our climate-critical forests ...
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 ...
Our AI-based solution In recent months, we have started using an AI-based tool to classify records at scale. This approach has helped us test hypotheses more quickly and speeded up classification. We ...
We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...
Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...
Our findings suggest that a climate of fear in both Uganda and Tanzania is stopping civil society and communities from challenging the pipeline. TotalEnergies‘ representatives, contractors and ...
Aerial view of a logging road in Sodefor concession in the peatland forest near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace Our two-year investigation reveals that European ...
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 ...
Between 2013 and 2016 mining giant Glencore paid over $75m to Dan Gertler, a controversial businessman accused of bribing senior officials in Democratic Republic of Congo to advance his mining ...
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 Brazil ...
Climate-vulnerable countries are pushing for a just loss and damage fund to help them recover from climate disasters. But will wealthier nations pay up?