The Brazilian Presidency’s flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – must be supported by sponsor governments also introducing stronger rules ...

Since the LA wildfires communities have been fighting for justice and accountability via polluter pays legislation. Our ...

As floods and wildfires mount in California, Big Oil has been lobbying hard against Superfund Act, which would make polluters pay for climate change damages ...

We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...

Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...

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 ...

For 30 years, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud ruled Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state. Today less than 5 per cent of the state’s once vast rainforests have been spared from logging or conversion to ...

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 ...

They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...

At least 177 land and environmental defenders were killed last year for trying to protect the planet – one person every other day - according to a new report by Global Witness released today, working ...

Taking a data-led approach, we were able to sift through the whole 1,600-page document listing everyone admitted to the talks, using a mixture of automation and manual analysis to spot delegates who ...

Next week, scientists, negotiators and government attaches gather in Bonn for the halfway point to COP30 – a critical moment to decide the agenda for the Brazil conference. One issue in particular has ...