🚨BREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week. Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws. The EU must not let them dodge accountability. https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3

🌍 @globalwitness.org’s @beatebeller.bsky.social added: financial institutions “must not remain exempt from accountability for their impact on people and planet.”

“The European Parliament must now show leadership by rolling back these damaging proposals and put people and the planet over corporate interests” @beatebeller.bsky.social For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin... [7/8]

A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear: 📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability. Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn

www.politico.eu/article/wild... What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules

📍 In Honduras, a father and son stood up to illegal logging and paid the ultimate price. Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world. 🛑 This must end. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández highlight ongoing violence against defenders in Honduras. My colleague Laura Furones at @globalwitness.org explains why the country has the highest per capita killings of environmental defenders. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Our latest @globalwitness.org investigation covered in @elpais.com elpais.com/america-colo...

Pollution : l’ONG Global Witness dénonce les rejets toxiques de Veolia dans une zone humide de Colombie

- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries - water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury - people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The French corporation’s actions risk causing serious health impacts including birth defects among local community, as EU plans to weaken law that would hold companies accountable for environmental damage. #CSDDD globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

French multinational Veolia alleged to be at the heart of a pollution scandal in Columbia, impacting workers their communities and the environment.Based on research of @globalwitness.org www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Company denies For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org

Von der Leyen’s attack on her own sustainability agenda is disgraceful. www.politico.eu/article/most...

Civil society and trade union protests outside the EU Commission today as we await the Omnibus. This proposal is a push for deregulation, particularly impacting the Green Deal. Recent leaks suggest the CSDDD may let companies escape responsibility for global human rights and environmental abuses.

Our Global Witness investigation of TikTok and X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of elections on Sunday. techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

Breaking: This is Caesar, the Syrian who smuggled thousnds of photos of people Assad killed under torture. He was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department in Military Police in Damascus, and whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act named after.

Big crowd of civil society and trade unions outside the European Commission to protest against corporate capture and deregulation. The looming Omnibus threatens to water down some hard-fought laws on corporate accountability and reporting. Proper public consultations or impact assessments? Absent!

As the EU threatens to cut back on the European Green Deal and commitments for big business, European companies continue to cause damage overseas. The European law on due diligence for large companies is in danger of being watered down further. #CSDDD www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...