New global data highlights the urgent need for greater protections for land and environmental defenders against attacks, as ...

New Global Witness analysis of customs data and Russian rail freight data shows continued exports of European-refined Russian ...

Brazil can't save our world's remaining forests while banks keep fuelling the deforestation economy, says Global Witness ...

When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy ...

UN Climate Change have announced new disclosure requirements for people attending COP, in a big win for accountability and ...

Global Witness documented 117 defender killings last year (82%) in Latin America, with 48 in Colombia, which had the most ...

New Global Witness report identifies patterns in laws increasingly being used across Asia to shut down peaceful activism and ...

In Asia, criminalisation and detention of defenders is increasingly common. Here, we analyse how governments weaponise laws ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia Cattle in Pará State of Brazil. 60% of tropical ...

Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...

Fossil fuel giant BP’s recent scrapping of its 2030 interim target to reduce production is estimated to cause 72,000 additional heat deaths by the end of this century driven by increased emissions ...