The Illustrated Field guide to Biodiversity Finance Narratives Too often, the focus is on mobilizing more money for nature, through all kind of narratives. But are they based on the right assumptions? Read the Field Guide and find out more: forestsandfinance.org/news/launch-...

Launch of the Illustrated Field guide to Biodiversity Finance Narratives - Forests & Finance

The global conversation about biodiversity finance is still too often framed around one question: how do we mobilize more money for nature? But that’s only part of the story. Equally important are the...

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Monitoramento Independente para Enfrentamento à Violência no Campo na Amazônia 📅 13 de agosto 🕙 10h às 12h (horário de Brasília) 💻 Transmissão ao vivo pelo YouTube da Articulação Agro é Fogo : bit.ly/webinariomon...

WEBINÁRIO: Monitoramento Independente para Enfrentamento à Violência no Campo na Amazônia

Como parte da programação da “Semana Nacional de Enfrentamento à Vi...

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Darurat El Nino Hingga 2027, Masyarakat Sipil Indonesia Desak Bank Hentikan Pembiayaan terhadap Perusak Hutan dan Gambut forestsandfinance.org/id/news-id/d...

Durante audiência da Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Câmara, especialistas defendem regras para fundos de investimento agroindustriais, para evitar que os Fiagros financiem desmatamento, grilagem e trabalho análogo à escravidão www.camara.leg.br/noticias/128...

Especialistas defendem regras para fundos de investimento agroindustriais - Notícias

Objetivo é evitar que os Fiagros financiem desmatamento ilegal, grilagem de terras e trabalho análogo à escravidão

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Participe da Audiência Pública na Câmara dos Deputados, sobre Crimes Ambientais, Agronegócio e Fundos de Investimento. Data: 30-06-2026 Hora: 10:00 Local: Anexo II, Câmara dos Deputados

AMAN and AIPNEE have filed an OECD complaint over harms linked to the Elang copper & gold mine expansion in Indonesia affecting the Indigenous Cek Bocek community. forestsandfinance.org/news/oecd-co...

OECD complaint against Bachelet Laboratories raises questions for investors - Forests & Finance

An OECD complaint filed by Indonesian civil society organizations AMAN and AIPNEE against Bachelet Laboratories has brought renewed attention to the environmental and social impacts associated with th...

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HSBC e IFC lideram aporte de R$ 7 bi em usina ‘verde’ criticada por quilombolas na Bahia reporterbrasil.org.br/2026/06/hsbc...

HSBC e IFC lideram aporte de R$ 7 bi em usina criticada por quilombolas

Acelen levantou crédito para produzir combustível sustentável, mas comunidades tradicionais relatam restrições de acesso e danos em estradas

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Empresa de energia planta macaúba no Recôncavo Baiano para produzir combustível sustentável de aviação, mas comunidades tradicionais se queixam dos impactos sobre o território e subsistência: "Não queremos pedir licença para entrar naquilo que é nosso". reporterbrasil.org.br/2026/06/quil...

Quilombolas criticam produção de combustível ‘verde’ de macaúba

Acelen planta macaúba na Bahia para produzir combustível sustentável de avião, mas comunidades tradicionais se queixam dos impactos

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ANÁLISE: O recuo da CVM e o risco de greenwashing na mineração observatoriodamineracao.com.br/o-recuo-da-c...

O recuo da CVM e o risco de greenwashing na mineração - Observatório da Mineração

Por Bruno Teixeira Peixoto* A ascensão de litígios estratégicos em questões climáticas e socioambientais ao redor do mundo, como bem observamos no caso paradigmático do desastre de Mariana no Reino Un...

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The International Court of Justice’s 2025 climate ruling wasn’t just for diplomats—it’s a call to action for all State institutions, including central banks, to halt financial flows to high emission activities, including deforestation. #ClimateAction #CentralBanks www.ciel.org/icj-climate-...

What the ICJ Climate Opinion Means for Central Banks - Center for International Environmental Law

The ICJ’s climate opinion puts central banks on notice: financial regulation is part of States’ legal duty to prevent climate harm.

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The latest Forest 500 data from Global Canopy shows limited progress by the finance sector on deforestation. The 59% of the assessed institutions still do not have a deforestation policy including 3 of the largest asset managers – BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. forest500.org/publications...

59% of assessed financial institutions still do not have a deforestation policy – Forest 500

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NYC pensions’ new asset manager search could be a major accountability test. BlackRock and other managers seeking to handle public workers’ savings should meet the pensions’ climate-risk standards — or lose business to firms that will. @sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Sierra Club Applauds NYC Pensions for Continued Climate Progress, Calls for Stronger Implementation

Annual reports show progress toward net-zero goals and highlight next steps on climate-solutions standards and asset manager accountability

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The FinanSIAL Festival returns with a series of events that highlight the financial sector's impact on the environment, human rights, and people's lives. Discover surprising facts, experience the emotions of exhibitions, and enjoy a variety of exciting performances!

BREAKING! The 17th #BankingOnClimateChaos report reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $8.7 TRILLION over the last decade. Instead of investing in a livable future, big banks are driving pollution & climate devastation. Learn more: bankingonclimatechaos.org

ONGs entram com ação civil para obrigar CVM a restabelecer norma ambiental que obriga companhias abertas de reportar, a partir de 2027, informações financeiras sobre sustentabilidade e riscos climáticos. "Não houve qualquer fato ... que justificasse a mudança" economia.uol.com.br/colunas/mari...

Mariana Barbosa: Ongs entram com ação civil para obrigar CVM a restabelecer norma ambiental

O Instituto de Direito Coletivo (IDC) e a SIS (Soluções Inclusivas Sustentáveis) entraram com uma ação civil pública contra a decisão da CVM (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários) que revogou a obrigação das companhias abertas de reportar, a partir de 2027,

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NEW report: Illicit #deforestation drains billions of 💰#IFFs from Global South – $1.28b for #Brazil & $289m for #Cameroon in timber exports alone – as financial secrecy prevents uncovering those responsible, meaning #EUDR will largely fail. @FinTrCo report 👉 rb.gy/fvyke8

Illicit deforestation drains $1.28 billion from Brazil & $289 million from Cameroon: new report - Financial Transparency Coalition

LONDON – Illicit deforestation drains billions in Illicit Financial Flows from the Global South – $1.28 billion for Brazil & $289 million for Cameroon in timber exports alone every year – as financial...

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Today's SEC proposal to repeal its 2024 disclosure rule on climate-related financial risk for large public companies is a sweeping reinterpretation of the agency’s disclosure authority and will leave investors and markets without critical information. ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/sec-usi...

SEC Using Climate Rule Repeal as Trojan Horse to Decimate Corporate Transparency - Americans for Financial Reform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29, 2026CONTACT: Jarice Thompson, media@ourfinancialsecurity.org Washington DC –  Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed to repeal its 2024 disclosure…

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After Brazil's CVM announced sustainability reporting would no longer be mandatory, capital markets, finance, business, accounting, governance, academia, and civil society organizations pressured the CVM to reverse the decision. capitalreset.uol.com.br/regulacao/me...

Mercado se une e pressiona CVM a rever recuo em reportes

Principais entidades do mercado de capitais e financeiros pede revisão da norma que tornou a divulgação voluntária

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Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. Regulating finance and a deep reform of the international financial and economic order are a key part of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

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Quando lugares que eram para viver viram ativos para render no mercado financeiro, a expulsão e a precarização varrem populações rurais e urbanas para as margens. ojoioeotrigo.com.br/2026/06/como...

New report identifies €5.8 billion/year in harmful subsidies to the European pulp and paper sector. These must be phased out and funding must be redirected to support biodiversity-positive forest management practices that benefit private and communal forest owners and the rural forest sector.

Environmental Paper Network@environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📄 Europe's largest #pulp and #paper companies, including SCA, UPM, and The Navigator Company, are pressuring the European Commission to weaken near-term targets of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (#LULUCF) Regulation. Read the report 👉 environmentalpaper.org/report/pulpi...

Imaflora published a guide for financial institutions on the implementation of the SARB 026/2023, FEBRABAN's (Brazil’s Federation of Banks) regulation aimed at managing the risk of illegal deforestation in the livestock chain in the Amazon. www.beefontrack.org/wp-content/u...

New report: Illicit deforestation drains $1.28 bln from Brazil & $289 mln from Cameroon. The authors call for the implementation of Beneficial Ownership Transparency, Tax Transparency, Supply Chain Transparency, Global Asset Registry and Public Data on Environmental Offences rb.gy/fvyke8

Illicit deforestation drains $1.28 billion from Brazil & $289 million from Cameroon: new report - Financial Transparency Coalition

LONDON – Illicit deforestation drains billions in Illicit Financial Flows from the Global South – $1.28 billion for Brazil & $289 million for Cameroon in timber exports alone every year – as financial...

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The courts decision shows that the lack of good consultations with impacted indigenous peoples, can become a financial risk. This is why banks and investors should adopt strong FPIC policies.

Amazon Watch@amazonwatch.org · 3mo ago

Brazilian courts are pushing back on Canadian mining in the Amazon. Two rulings strengthened Indigenous resistance, calling out sham “consultations” & blocking agencies from defending corporate interests. From Mura territory to the Xingu, communities are asserting their right to decide. Read more:

A group of the world’s leading climate scientists are warning governments the livestock industry as well as the financial sector, against adopting an “accounting trick” that will underestimate the impacts from methane emissions from livestock. insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

Top Climate Scientists Accuse the Livestock Industry of Pushing Fuzzy Math to Downplay Its Climate Warming Emissions - Inside Climate News

An alternative emissions-calculating methodology underpins revised, less ambitious methane-reduction targets.

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New report: The growing extraction of rainforest resources is pushing the Amazon and similar biomes towards breaking point. Strong financial regulations are needed to close the money pipeline to these industries and prevent further deforestation. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds

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The new IPES Food report highlights how different crises are impacting our fragile food systems. It argues that governments must use policy tools to protect food access. This must include regulating and shifting financial flows to a more sustainable food system ipes-food.org/wp-content/u...

Alessandra Munduruku: Wall Street Must Stop Financing the Destruction of the Amazon Banks have a lot of power in deciding who receives financing and under what conditions. They can refuse to support those who violate them. They must use that power now. www.newsweek.com/wall-street-...

Wall Street Must Stop Financing the Destruction of the Amazon | Opinion

"We depend on the river and the land to live. When they are destroyed, we are destroyed with them."

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As JBS plans to export its unsustainable meat production model to Nigeria, banks keep pumping money into this problematic company. In April it captured USD 2 billion with a bond issuance, with the support of #BancoDoBrasil, #BBVA, #BMO, #ING, #Mizuho, #Rabonbank, #StandardChartered and others.

Greenpeace International 🌍@greenpeace.org · 3mo ago

PRESS RELEASE Greenpeace Netherlands took the first step towards legal action against JBS, demanding disclosure of information on its climate and human rights impacts to challenge its business policies in court, including its planned US$6 billion global expansion, of which almost half is for Nigeria

The Apinajé call on the IFC/World Bank to cancel a proposed loan to a large Brazilian agribusiness, whose owner is accused of causing deforestation on land claimed by the indigenous people forestsandfinance.org/pt/news-pt/b...

Banco Mundial negocia US$ 20 mi a acusado de desmate perto de terra indígena no Tocantins - Florestas & Finanças

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