Forests & Finance
@forestsandfinance.bsky.social
We are a coalition of organizations working to hold the financial sector accountable, protect forests and support communities defending their territories.
Our site is: forestsandfinance.org
Our site is: forestsandfinance.org
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
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
The Land Gap report
We calculated how much land is included in pledges: nearly 1 billion hectares. That's about two thirds of the world's arable land.
www.landgap.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
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!"
"Food for people, not for profit!"
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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!"
"Food for people, not for profit!"
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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
https://bit.ly/4oWnmVZ
More in our latest #Substack post ⬇️ @forestsandfinance.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4oWnmVZ
Chainsaw economy: Financial sector fuels deforestation despite climate promises
Global leaders at COP30 need to get serious about financial regulations
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
https://bit.ly/4oWnmVZ
More in our latest #Substack post ⬇️ @forestsandfinance.bsky.social
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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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.
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.
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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.
#ABNAmro zette de afgelopen jaren stappen richting een duurzamere koers - juist daarom is dit nieuws zo teleurstellend.
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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.
#ABNAmro zette de afgelopen jaren stappen richting een duurzamere koers - juist daarom is dit nieuws zo teleurstellend.
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“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.
Sob críticas, evento em SP debate ‘financiamento responsável’
Encontro às vésperas da COP30 reunirá signatários de pacto global sobre investimentos "responsáveis"; organização vê falta de resultados
reporterbrasil.org.br
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“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-...
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-...
Civil society perspectives on the challenges of investing in nature
UNPRI side events organized by the Forests & Finance Coalition
events.humanitix.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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-...
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...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Meatpacker JBS hit with US lawsuit over climate target
Brazil's JBS has been accused of making false climate claims in a U.S. lawsuit filed by advocacy group Mighty Earth, a fresh legal challenge for the world's biggest meatpacker ahead of global climate talks in its home country in November.
www.reuters.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#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 $3 blnn of JBS-issued sustainability-linked bonds in 2021 which were "misleading"
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Produtor rural obteve crédito privado no mercado de capitais por meio de CRAs (Certificados de Recebíveis do Agronegócio) avaliados em R$ 100 milhões e emitidos em julho de 2025, mesmo após ele ter sido autuado por trabalho escravo reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/titu...
Títulos do agro financiaram produtor autuado por trabalho escravo
Emissão de títulos financeiros foi quitada dez dias antes da inclusão do empresário na Lista Suja do trabalho escravo
reporterbrasil.org.br
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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🤔 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!
Now the greenwashing effort is dead, there's no excuse for delaying regulation!
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🤔 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!
Now the greenwashing effort is dead, there's no excuse for delaying regulation!
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🔥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🧶
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🔥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🧶
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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 👇
Cargill comprou soja de produtor multado por cultivo em área embargada na Bahia
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 ...
reporterbrasil.org.br
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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-...
Register here:
events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...
Civil society perspectives on the challenges of investing in nature
UNPRI side events organized by the Forests & Finance Coalition
events.humanitix.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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-...
Register here:
events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...
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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.
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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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.
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:
Read the report in English here:
🌍 Às vésperas da #COP30, a Repórter Brasil lança relatório sobre violações socioambientais na cadeia dos #biocombustíveis.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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:
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.
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The real finance problem is the trillions still flowing into destruction - Florestas & Finanças
Blog em inglês
forestsandfinance.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...
forestsandfinance.org/pt/news-pt/t...
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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
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
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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
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...
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
$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...
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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...
Big Meat and Dairy corporations are cooking our planet.
foe.org/news/emissio...
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
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
Yet major banks like #Bradesco, #Santander, #CIMB and #MUFG keep pumping billions into these sectors.
Read more in RAN's blog: bit.ly/42yPJBb
How "green" is JetBlue & Southwest Airlines' biofuel really? Our latest Substack explores an investigation into supposedly "sustainable" jet fuel – produced by Texas-based Diamond Green Diesel – that's made with beef fat from cattle grazed illegally in the #Amazon rainforest.
https://bit.ly/42yPJBb
https://bit.ly/42yPJBb
Amazon-clearing cattle are being turned into “green” jet fuel
The biofuel industry chalks up another victory for "sustainability"
rainforestactionnetwork.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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
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.
#Banco_do_Brasil, #BTGPactual, #Santander, #JPMorgan_Chase, #Caixa and #Sicredi were among the largest financiers of the beef sector, in those years.
Most of the #deforestation tends to be concentrated in a small number of municipalities. Only 61 municipalities in #Brazil accounted for 50% of deforestation for cattle pasture in 2023. Focusing action on these hotspots could significantly reduce deforestation and conversion.
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@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.
#Banco_do_Brasil, #BTGPactual, #Santander, #JPMorgan_Chase, #Caixa and #Sicredi were among the largest financiers of the beef sector, in those years.
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The COP30 summit, the first to be held in the Amazon, comes as deforestation surges. buff.ly/WtEKdS2
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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-...
See the full program and register here:
events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...
Civil society perspectives on the challenges of investing in nature
UNPRI side events organized by the Forests & Finance Coalition
events.humanitix.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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-...
See the full program and register here:
events.humanitix.com/forests-and-...
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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
We need finance funneled towards climate solutions NOT the problems.
#DefundDeforestation
https://bit.ly/475IIJh
‘Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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
We need finance funneled towards climate solutions NOT the problems.
#DefundDeforestation
https://bit.ly/475IIJh