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By: BankTrack,Repórter Brasil,Amazon Watch,Profundo,Rainforest Action Network,Sahabat Alam Malaysia & TuK Indonesia

Work partners:
Repórter Brasil, Amazon Watch, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network, Sahabat Alam Malaysia & TuK Indonesia
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Forests & Finance website. Photo: Forests & Finance

The Forests & Finance platform is the result of research and investigations by a coalition of campaign and research organizations including BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, TuK INDONESIA, Profundo, Amazon Watch, Repórter Brasil, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, and Friends of the Earth US. The coalition seeks, collectively, to achieve improved financial sector transparency, policies, and systems that prevent financial institutions from supporting environmental and social abuses that are all too common in the operations of many forest-risk sector clients.

The website highlights the role that finance plays in enabling tropical deforestation and reveals the finance flowing into the main commodities driving deforestation and land degradation in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa, and Brazil. These commodities are palm oil, pulp and paper, timber, soy, beef, and rubber. The website features a searchable database on financier-client deals from 2013 onwards, scorecards on bank policies relevant to forest-sector environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, and case studies on companies linked to deforestation and human rights abuses. The content of the website is updated on a regular basis. For further details on the project, case studies, data sources, and methodology, please visit forestsandfinance.org.

You can contact the coalition at info@forestsandfinance.org.


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Forests & Finance Bank Policy Assessment

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2021-11-03 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance
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external news
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The money pipeline for deforestation must stop now

2021-11-01 | Friends of the Earth US, Global Witness
blog
external news
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Banking centers of Brazil, Indonesia, China, the United States and Japan are bankrolling global deforestation, new analysis finds

More than USD 238 billion in credit has been provided to companies driving tropical deforestation globally since the Paris Climate Agreement
2021-10-29 | Forests & Finance
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JPMorgan Chase strengthens palm oil policy, but fails to move on fossil fuels, rights, or deforestation more broadly

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UOB's new sectoral policies need stronger requirements for forest-risk commodities companies

2021-09-27 | BankTrack, Forest & Finance Coalition
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Forests & Finance Coalition warns foreign investors about the risk of the anti-environment agenda in the Brazilian Congress

2021-08-19 | Forests & Finance
blog
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Brazilian meat company JBS issues "sustainability-linked" bonds: Forests & Finance coalition responds

2021-06-25 | Forests & Finance
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Chinese banks urged to divest from firms linked to deforestation

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World’s 50 largest banks and investors driving deforestation through weak policies and major investments, new study finds

Top investors BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, PNB, EPF, GPIF, and KWAP all amongst lowest scoring
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Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio

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Bucking a long trend of negligence, shareholders urge Bunge to halt deforestation

The vote at the massive soy trader signals greater financier focus on forests
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China is world’s second largest financier of deforestation-linked commodities

New study finds significant risk associated with nearly 15 billion USD in loans and underwriting by Chinese financial institutions
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Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

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Documents

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2021-11-02 00:00:00

Open letter of concerns on the issuance of USD 1 billion in Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) by JBS

2021-11-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Greenpeace
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2021-08-19 00:00:00

Letter from the Forest & Finance Coalition and allies to International Financial Institutions on the Risks of Legal Setbacks in Environmental Protections in Brazil

2021-08-19 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance
ngo documents
2021-08-19 00:00:00

Recipients of the letter about the risk of the anti-environment agenda in the Brazilian Congress

2021-08-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack
ngo documents
2021-06-28 00:00:00

Asian Banks Continue to Finance the Palm Oil Refining Sector as Leakage Declines

2021-06-28 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
ngo documents
2021-06-23 00:00:00

Forests & Finance 2021 Briefing - Is Your Money Destroying Rainforests or Violating Rights?

2021-06-23 00:00:00 | Forests and Finance
ngo documents
2021-05-25 00:00:00

How JBS is still slaughtering the Amazon

2021-05-25 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
our publications
2021-05-10 00:00:00

Chinese banks’ forest-risk financing

Financial flows and client risks
2021-05-10 00:00:00 | Forest and Finance
ngo documents
2021-05-03 00:00:00

Key Cerrado Deforesters in 2020 Linked to the Clearing of More Than 110,000 Hectares

2021-05-03 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
ngo documents
2021-04-28 00:00:00

Keep Forests Standing

Evaluating the Brands and Banks Driving Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses
2021-04-28 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
ngo documents
2021-04-22 00:00:00

Beef, banks and the Brazilian Amazon

How Brazilian beef companies and their international financiers greenwash their links to Amazon deforestation
2021-04-22 00:00:00 | Global Witness
ngo documents
2021-02-26 00:00:00

New BNP Paribas policy on soy and beef is a positive step, but lacks urgency

2021-02-26 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance
ngo documents
2021-01-18 00:00:00

The Need for Free, Prior and Informed Consent:

An Evaluation of the Policies and Standard Operating Procedures of Ten Major Corporate Groups involved in Forest-Risk Commodity Supply Chains in Southeast Asia
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
ngo documents
2020-11-25 00:00:00

Forests & Finance Briefing

2020-11-25 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance coalition
ngo documents
2020-11-16 00:00:00

Letter to banks and investors on Indofood labor exploitation

2020-11-16 00:00:00
ngo documents
2018-12-10 00:00:00

Bank Policy Matrix

2018-12-10 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance Coalition

Media




Links

A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

http://forestsandfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/201020_briefing_pbrs.pdf

Forests & Finance

Forests & Finance is a searchable database that reveals the finance flowing into commodities driving deforestation and land degradation in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa, and Brazil. It also includes policy assessments and case studies. BankTrack is part of the Forests & Finance coalition.

http://forestsandfinance.org/

Slides of the webinars on the new Forests & Finance data

Download the slides from both webinars, held on September 22, in which the key findings of the new Forests & Finance dataset were presented.

https://forestsandfinance.org/slides-of-the-webinars-on-the-new-forests-finance-data/
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