As of April 1st, banks in Brazil will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit. apnews.com/article/braz...

A partir de abril, os bancos vão ter que verificar se os solicitantes de crédito rural têm algum desmatamento em suas propriedades. www.cnnbrasil.com.br/agro/bancos-...

Convite para o seminário: DO TERRITÓRIO ÀS CORTES: CAMINHOS DA REPARAÇÃO E RESPONSABILIZAÇÃO DAS INSTITUIÇÕES FINANCEIRAS Data: Quinta-feira, 26 de março de 2026 Horário: 9h30 - 12h30 Formato: Presencial e Remoto Link de Inscrição: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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 observatoriodamineracao.com.br/sem-salvagua...

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. www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33357-n...

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. news.mongabay.com/2026/02/bank...

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) foe.org/news/amazon-...

🎉🎉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? forestsandfinance.org/news/brazili...

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. forestsandfinance.org/news/credit-...

Read our new blog on the role of banks in upholding the Soy Moratorium criteria forestsandfinance.org/news/the-ama...

“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. forestsandfinance.org/news/csos-ca...

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. forestsandfinance.org/news/recycli...

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) Register: tinyurl.com/5acz35zy

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. www.banktrack.org/article/bank...

Sustainable cocoa: Cameroonian banks urged to consider environmental risks in their credit and risk management policies. greenlines237.com/cacao-durabl...

New UNEP report: Every US dollar invested in protecting nature is matched by $30 spent on destroying it. www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVxL...

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. onestopesg.com/esg-news/un-...

📢 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#Substack https://bit.ly/4oWnmVZ

NEW REPORT! Today the Forests & Finance Coalition launched the 2025 Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report. The report finds that after a decade of broken paper promises, financial institutions are actually doubling down on credit and investment to tropical forests risk commodity companies.

Nog vóór ze haar visie voor de bank presenteert, wordt het ware gezicht van de nieuwe CEO Marguerite Bérard zichtbaar: 70 banen op de duurzaamheidsafdeling geschrapt. 😣 #ABNAmro zette de afgelopen jaren stappen richting een duurzamere koers - juist daarom is dit nieuws zo teleurstellend.

“Porta de entrada dos investidores para a COP30”, encontro reunirá signatários de pacto global sobre investimentos com base em critérios ambientais, sociais e de governança; para a organização Florestas & Finanças, compromissos voluntários não resultaram em mudanças significativas.

‪Forests & Finance‬ Please join us for a full day of side events to the UNPRI in São Paulo, on November 5th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...

#JBS has been accused of making false climate claims in a US lawsuit. A complaint was also sent Britain's financial regulator about alleged misconduct by #Barclays because it underwrote $3 blnn of JBS-issued sustainability-linked bonds in 2021 which were "misleading" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Produtor rural obteve crédito privado no mercado de capitais por meio de CRAs (Certificados de Recebíveis do Agronegócio) avaliados em R$ 100 milhões e emitidos em julho de 2025, mesmo após ele ter sido autuado por trabalho escravo reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/titu...

🤔 The NZBA was fatally flawed from the start, allowing member banks to claim they were aligned with net-zero while still financing new oil & gas 🛢️ Now the greenwashing effort is dead, there's no excuse for delaying regulation!

🔥A FEBRE DO LÍTIO no Brasil está se expandindo para a Amazônia Legal, região que abriga o maior número de povos tradicionais e florestas nativas preservadas do país🧶

Multinacional mantém fornecedor que acumula infrações ambientais no Cerrado e já teve área embargada por operar sem licença. Fazendeiro utiliza o contrato com a Cargill como garantia na negociação de títulos financeiros. Saiba mais em 👇

Please join us for a full day of side events to the UNPRI in São Paulo, on November 5th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...

While big bank CEOs celebrate another profitable quarter 💰 we're outside Parliament calling on Rachel Reeves to #TaxTheBanks! The Chancellor said those with the broadest shoulders should pay their fair share, the Budget is the perfect chance to put her money where her mouth is.

New report by @reporterbrasil.org.br‬ highlights the social and environmental impacts caused by the biofuels sector. The sector is backed by many of the same financial institutions that finance the soy and palm oil sector. Read the report in English here:

As delegates to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) gather in Panama for preparatory talks for COP17 next year, the CBD Alliance published an article on the need to regulate finance, in the daily ECO. forestsandfinance.org/pt/news-pt/t...

Research from Urgewald's Global Coal Exit List shows that coal companies are still expanding their business worldwide. 669 financial institutions already use the list to turn their commitments into change. More banks should follow to end finance for companies like PLN and Adani. www.coalexit.org

$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...

A new report shows that 5 major meat corporations produced more greenhouse gases than reported for Shell or Chevron. Big Meat and Dairy corporations are cooking our planet. foe.org/news/emissio...

Biofuels such as palm oil, soy and beef fat, are driving deforestation! Yet major banks like #Bradesco, #Santander, #CIMB and #MUFG keep pumping billions into these sectors. Read more in RAN's blog: bit.ly/42yPJBb

@Trase.earth data shows that annual deforestation and conversion of native vegetation linked to pasture expansion rose 36% between 2020 and 2023. #Banco_do_Brasil, #BTGPactual, #Santander, #JPMorgan_Chase, #Caixa and #Sicredi were among the largest financiers of the beef sector, in those years.

The COP30 summit, the first to be held in the Amazon, comes as deforestation surges. buff.ly/WtEKdS2

Join our full day seminar on Finance and Forests on November 5th, in São Paulo, during the UNPRI meeting. See the full program and register here: events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...

Despite the global pledge to stop deforestation by 2030, agricultural industries have received $409 BILLION in annual subsidies. 20m acres of forest were cleared last year as a result. We need finance funneled towards climate solutions NOT the problems. #DefundDeforestation https://bit.ly/475IIJh