Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia Cattle in Pará State of Brazil. 60% of tropical ...

2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. In the same year, both ExxonMobil and Chevron hit new highs in oil production, exacerbating the crisis they publicly claim to be addressing Global Witness ...

Reacting to the European Commission’s final ‘benchmarking’ criteria for countries under its anti-deforestation law, Giulia ...

The entrance to the Veolia San Silvestre Environmental Technology Park. Leonardo Granados / Global Witness Global Witness obtained a series of videos secretly filmed within the Veolia-managed site ...

Recommendations The government of Kenya should: Ensure that those responsible for the murder of Joannah Stutchbury are brought to justice. Recognise the rights of Indigenous peoples and local ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin’s importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

The Philippines’ mining industry is open for business. But with skyrocketing global demand for minerals – critical for the transition to green energy – Indigenous groups and the country’s rich ...

The UN's COP29 climate summit is taking place in November in Azerbaijan, a country that not only gets most of its government revenue from fossil fuels but that is set to increase its gas production ...

Financial powerhouses including Barclays, Vanguard and BlackRock made millions from financing Brazilian meatpacker JBS, whose operations are driving destruction of Apyterewa Indigenous land A Parakanã ...

Centrica, OVO and other companies linked to the fossil fuel industry will pay to brand climate discussions at Labour’s annual gathering A fifth of all climate events at Labour conference are sponsored ...

At the beginning of July, we detected 10 bot-like accounts on X spreading political messages around the UK election with an oversized reach. A few weeks later, we’ve found more – a set of 45 bot-like ...

In 2022, a Global Witness investigation revealed a shocking reality at the heart of the green energy transition. Unregulated mines in Myanmar had become an essential source of heavy rare earth ...