Greenwashing Alert: NextDecade Cancels Carbon Capture
By Toyo Kawakami, Japan Senior Advisor (Japan) & Ruth Breech, Senior Campaigner (US) In August 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits for…
Community Victory! Insurance giant Chubb drops coverage for Rio Grande LNG!
After fierce pressure from frontline organizers, climate activists, and allies – Chubb insurance has become the first major insurer to stop covering Rio Grande LNG, a dangerous methane gas export…
We crashed Procter & Gamble’s “Signal Conference” and got arrested
P&G met with corporate leaders to talk about “rising global uncertainty” as their business practices lay waste to frontline communities and rainforests.
There’s no Pride in Corporate Greed
As Pride celebrations continue to expand, we’ve witnessed an unsettling trend: corporate sponsors have increasingly taken center stage.
People power is moving insurance giant Chubb — but even their newest climate policies fall short
In April 2024, Chubb released a new policy to expand their minimal restrictions on insuring oil and gas. Chubb continues to feel campaign pressure to address their reputation risk on…
Feeding Deforestation: How millions of tons of palm oil are hidden in animal feed
Our latest report finds that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil category imported into the United States, and staple dairy products increasingly contain “embedded” palm oil.
Fossil Fuel Financing reaches $6.9 Trillion since the Paris Agreement
Fossil fuels are a dead end for people and the planet. Big banks are financing them anyway. 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, with an average global surface temperature…
We confronted the maker of Oreo and Chips Ahoy! in Chicago
We went to Network Effect in Chicago with a simple message: Mondelēz can’t have a good faith dialogue about sustainability if it refuses to clean up its supply chains.
Thousands held corporations accountable during the first-ever Global Insurance Week of Action!
Just like you need insurance to drive a car, fossil fuel companies need insurance to build and operate their infrastructure. That’s why they’re such a critical target in the fight…
Get Bank of America Back On Track: Background for AGM 2024
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Voices Support for Majority Action’s Exempt Solicitation Filing to Remove Clayton Rose, the Chair of Bank of America’s Enterprise Risk Committee and Responds to Bank of…
We Vacationed with the World’s Biggest Pillagers in Boca Raton
Last week, we dipped our toes in the warm waters of South Florida at a gathering of elite investment firms and consumer goods companies known as the Consumer Analyst Group…
Profiles in Community Action: RAN’s Community Action Grants Program in 2023
As the real-world impacts of hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise continue to accelerate, it is more clear than ever that the people who did the least to contribute…
The Insurers Secretly Backing the Methane Gas Boom in the US Gulf South
Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to climate change, insurers perpetuate climate chaos and dependence on fossil fuels by insuring new coal,…
Charting Our Course: Rainforest Action Network’s Five-Year Strategic Plan
The future of our planet remains in our hands at the moment. But any solutions toward a sustainable future lie at the intersection of forests, climate and human rights. For…
Banking on Biodiversity Collapse: Inaugural Report Reveals Major Bank and Investor Policies Accelerating Deforestation, Biodiversity Destruction, and Rights Violations
Behind the scenes, the finance sector is playing an outsized role in global deforestation by financing agribusiness and logging companies.
Breaking the Fracking Cycle: From Texas LNG to Europe
I joined a delegation of women who are on the frontlines of fighting fracking and liquefied methane gas (LNG) in Texas, where we toured European countries with ties to this…
Insuring Our Future
Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to the largest threat to humanity – climate change – insurers are perpetuating dependence on fossil…
P&G: Stop Forest Destruction
In June, the company quietly published a revised Forest Commodity Policy that, in spite of public commitments to intact forests and forest communities, actually weakens the company’s forests standards. A…
The Power of Partnership
Our vision for change is interwoven within our very name. RAN’s network stretches across the globe, from the dense rainforests of Indonesia and the Amazon, to the frontline fights of…
Defunding Climate Chaos
The 2023 Banking on Climate Chaos report, released this April, is the most comprehensive analysis on fossil fuel banking produced to date. This 14th annual version of the report continued…
Big Wins for Forest and Communities
The most effective and efficient way to protect forest ecosystems is to protect the land rights of the Indigenous and frontline communities who depend on them. Science and history have…
“Natural” Gas is Methane
A decade ago, Rainforest Action Network coined the term “Conflict Palm Oil.” It was a part of a concerted effort to rebrand the most widely used vegetable oil in the…
Big Brands Show Little Sign of Progress in Our 2023 ‘Keep Forests Standing’ Scorecard
RAN’s 2023 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows minimal deforestation and human rights improvements among major consumer goods brands, and worsening performance by Procter & Gamble.
These Insurance Companies are Making the World Uninsurable
Insurance companies are supposed to protect people from risk. But time and time again, these money-hungry corporations continue not only to fail to protect people but abandon them altogether and…
Complicit: Bank of America, Human Rights, and Fossil Fuel Expansion
The brutal reality of climate chaos is being lived by millions of people around the world today, with its greatest burden borne by mostly BIPOC and low-income communities. Our global…
