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Increasing transparency for financial institutions

3 November 2020

New Trase Finance tool highlights complex map of links to deforestation for financial institutions

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Global Canopy calls on UK government to strengthen proposed deforestation law

6 October 2020

News: Global Canopy urges the UK government to extend due diligence requirements to include legal deforestation

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Image shows oil palm plantations eating into forest in West Kalimantan

How to drive a wider shift to deforestation-free supply chains?

16 May 2019

The latest scientific evidence makes it clear that voluntary commitments alone are not enough to end deforestation - a panel event in Brussels discussed whether legislation could play a part.

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Banks need to raise their game in battle against deforestation

12 April 2019

Analysis of Forest 500 commitments examines whether banks are implementing their own policies in the investment and lending choices they make.

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Cattle grazing in the Matopiba region, Brazil Photo Credit: Daniel Meyer

Investors add their voices to calls to protect the Cerrado

1 August 2018

How would you feel if you knew that your pension fund or life-savings were being invested in destroying tropical forests and other important wildlife habitats? That they were funding the expansion of...

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Companies failing on pledges to halt tropical deforestation by 2020

12 December 2017

The 2017 annual assessment of the Forest 500 powerbrokers shows the 250 companies with the greatest influence over forests are failing to adequately address deforestation risks.