On Earth Day, the Forests & Finance coalition delivered a petition signed by tens of thousands of people to major Wall Street banks — including Bank of America, Citi and JPMorgan Chase — calling on them to take urgent action to protect the Amazon rainforest.
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As of April 1st, banks in Brazil will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit.
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A partir de abril, os bancos vão ter que verificar se os solicitantes de crédito rural têm algum desmatamento em suas propriedades.
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DO TERRITÓRIO ÀS CORTES: CAMINHOS DA REPARAÇÃO E RESPONSABILIZAÇÃO DAS INSTITUIÇÕES FINANCEIRAS
Data: Quinta-feira, 26 de março de 2026
Horário: 9h30 - 12h30
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Global banks are silent on the link with a mining project challenged by indigenous groups in the Amazon
Projeto de lei busca reduzir riscos ambientais de financiamento do agro | Investimentos do mercado de capitais para financiar o agronegócio cresceram nos últimos anos; proposta busca garantir clareza sobre cadeia produtiva e riscos das operações. reporterbrasil.org.br/2026/03/proj...
A land mark class action lawsuit has been filed alleging that one of the largest real estate firms in the world has been failing to properly manage climate-related financial risk in its employees' retirement plans.
Without clear socio-environmental safeguards and with details kept secret, BNDES and FINEP foresee more than R$ 45 billion for critical minerals
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The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.
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Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses
The Amazon cannot afford for its last lines of defense to disappear. Neither can the world. Banks must act now, before the damage becomes irreversible.
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A new EU law was supposed to hold multinationals accountable for abuses in their supply chains. But the law was stripped down in record time. The cause? A secret American lobbying campaign that pressured the European Commission, even overruling objections from European companies like Nestlé and IKEA
The Indigenous Advisory Group (IAG) of the Banks and Biodiversity Initiative supports the joint call for financial institutions to uphold the zero-deforestation criteria of the Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM)
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🎉🎉After more than a month blockading Cargill's grain terminal, Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a major victory. President Lula has revoked Decree 12,600/2025 🧵👇
If our research has proved anything, it's that the finance sector is not absent from deforestation. As Brazil soy companies withdraw from the Amazon Soy Moratorium – an initiative that prevents them from buying soy grown on land deforested after 2008 – financiers must step up.
https://bit.ly/4asXL2P
New blog on Brazil's Sustainable Taxonomy
The taxonomy is meant to classify what is green, and what is not.
So, how do you think cattle production in the Amazon, Soy production with glyphosate, and mining in indigenous lands classify?
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The European Central Bank has imposed a penalty of €7.55 million on Crédit Agricole for failing to fully identify its climate-related and environmental risks.
This is a clear signal to other banks: nature-related financial risks must be fully disclose.
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Read our new blog on the role of banks in upholding the Soy Moratorium criteria
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“All businesses depend on and impact biodiversity and can be agents of positive change” -
IPBES report on Business and Biodiversity
In line with this, CSOs have urged banks to uphold the zero deforestation criteria of the Amazon Soy Moratorium.
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New Blog: Recycling Loss Is Not Resource Mobilisation
Read our blog on the Resource Mobilization discussions at the intersessional meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Report Launch webinar by Sahabat Alam Malaysia
Join us for a conversation on the gaps in Malaysia’s financial regulations and how they can be strengthened to prevent deforestation and uphold community rights.
Date: Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 (CET)
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New report: Financing False Solutions in Steel Decarbonisation
Account for 11% of global CO2 emissions, the steel sector must transition, but not all steel decarbonisation solutions are equal.
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Sustainable cocoa: Cameroonian banks urged to consider environmental risks in their credit and risk management policies.
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New UNEP report: Every US dollar invested in protecting nature is matched by $30 spent on destroying it.
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The footprint of Chinese banks in the Sumatra disaster
A report by @Tuk_Indonesia shows which are the main banks behind the largest companies involved in the disastrous floods in Sumatra.
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food production and fossil fuel use are collectively generating about five billion dollars in environmental harm every single hour, according to UNEPs Global Environment Outlook report.
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📢 New report from @fairfinanceint.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @11.be reveals that 2016-2024, EU banks provided €64 billion in loans and underwriting services to #transitionmining companies linked to land grabs, pollution and human rights violations.
Find out more 👉 bit.ly/43W9hQ
Policy debates often point to missing political will of financing, as reasons deforestation persists.
Yet the real constraint is rarely addressed: global economic rules that restrict national autonomy and limit meaningful action.
The new Land Gap Report explains why this matters. www.landgap.org
On the first day of COP30, social movements protested at the AgriZone, a space dominated by big agriculture companies, against big agribusiness cooptation of COP30.
"Food for people, not for profit!"
Voluntary approaches like the Global Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ) have failed to deliver real-world impact beyond delaying regulation. Finance and investment in forest-risk commodities has surged.
More in our latest #Substack post ⬇️ @forestsandfinance.bsky.social
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