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Land and Environmental Defenders

Secretly filmed footage shows Veolia contaminating protected Colombian wetlands

27 March 2025
Land and Environmental Defenders

Poisoned Ground: Secretly filmed footage shows Veolia pumping toxic pollutants into protected Colombian wetlands

27 March 2025
Digital Threats to Democracy

Big Tech platforms failing to assess risks to users despite new EU rules

19 March 2025
Land and Environmental Defenders

"Total dereliction of responsibility, free pass for polluters": Global Witness reacts to CSDDD omnibus proposal

26 February 2025
Digital Threats to Democracy

Facebook algorithm engages in prohibited gender discrimination

18 February 2025
Land and Environmental Defenders

French and Italian plans would allow Europe’s biggest airports, ports and airlines to escape climate commitments

17 February 2025
Forests

Flights from one of the world’s largest airports may be grounded within 30 years due to rising sea levels

27 January 2025
Land and Environmental Defenders

Exposing the truth to protect our planet: How you can join the movement

16 December 2024
Forests

Wall Street banks help drive NYC-sized deforestation in Paraguay’s climate-critical forest

10 December 2024
Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel lobbyists eclipse delegations from most climate-vulnerable nations at COP29 climate talks

15 November 2024
Fossil Fuels

Climate leaders call for urgent overhaul of UN climate process – Global Witness response

15 November 2024
Fossil Fuels

Azerbaijan state oil firm trebles deals in year Baku hosts COP29

10 November 2024
Forests

"Era of human extinction": Hope and frustration at COP16 nature crisis summit

04 November 2024
Fossil Fuels

What’s in a hurricane name? Storm Chevron batters US coast

30 October 2024
Fossil Fuels

Why the UK government should get the oil industry to contribute towards climate loss and damage

10 October 2024
Forests

The price of beauty: Popular collagen brands drive deforestation and rights abuses in Paraguay

08 October 2024
Forests

Barclays earned $1.7 billion financing company tied to Indigenous land destruction in Amazon

26 September 2024
Forests

One football field of tropical forest a day destroyed by farms supplying JBS

22 August 2024
Fossil Fuels

TotalEnergies produced enough oil and gas since Paris Agreement to cause half a million heat deaths

06 August 2024
Fossil Fuels

Shell Q2 2024: Shareholder wealth soars to £18 billion during year of record-breaking heat

01 August 2024
Fossil Fuels

BP shareholders enriched to the tune of £12 billion during 12-month period of record-breaking heat

30 July 2024
Corporate Accountability

“A new chapter for corporate accountability” – European Parliament approves CSDDD

24 April 2024
Corporate Accountability

Corporate accountability law: EU countries give free pass to two-thirds of companies

15 March 2024
Fossil Fuels

Oil giants transfer record wealth to their investors

08 February 2024
Land and Environmental Defenders

Fuelling oppression

07 February 2024
Corporate Accountability

Landmark EU law obliges companies to act on climate, misses chance to make banks green investments

14 December 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

Where Big Tech and climate change meet – perspectives on accountability and action

30 June 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Scarred for life

30 May 2023
Corporate Accountability

“Time we cannot afford to lose” – MEPs back major delay for landmark corporate accountability law

25 April 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Berta Cáceres: New rules for banks could help stop defender killings

23 January 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Violence, torture and threats continue, allege land and environmental defenders in Amazonian Brazil palm oil region

20 December 2022
Fossil Fuels

Exposing the deadly gap between words and action in Russia

12 December 2022

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