They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...

Our AI-based solution In recent months, we have started using an AI-based tool to classify records at scale. This approach has helped us test hypotheses more quickly and speeded up classification. We ...

Our findings suggest that a climate of fear in both Uganda and Tanzania is stopping civil society and communities from challenging the pipeline. TotalEnergies‘ representatives, contractors and ...

Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the fossil fuel firm ran by COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, is on course to become the second largest oil producer in the world by 2050 – including ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in financing provided ...

Global Witness uncovers evidence indicating controversial mining magnate Dan Gertler used an international money laundering network to attempt to evade US sanctions and continue doing business in DRC.

As the world’s biggest importer, trillions of dollars’ worth of products from around the globe find their way into the US every year – with the amount of food imports growing in recent years.

JBS has a well-documented track record of its involvement in deforestation, human rights abuses, and land grabs against Indigenous peoples. Global Witness The world's largest meat company, JBS S.A., ...

Myanmar's poisoned mountains The toxic rare earth mining industry at the heart of the global green energy transition ...

But acknowledgement of fossil fuels’ role in the climate crisis often comes with bothsidesism Our investigation found that where generative AI models are used as sources of reliable information on ...

In a fight between a jaguar and a cow, who do you think would win? If you guessed South America's most powerful predator, you’d be wrong. As industrial agriculture like cattle ranching destroys Brazil ...