At COP30 in Belém, Global Witness is driving forwards a policy agenda that puts people – not polluters – first ...

Climate, fuel poverty & tax justice groups have written to Chancellor Reeves and HMRC calling for an investigation into the ...

Investigative campaigners say new forest fund announced before COP30 cannot solve deforestation without urgent binding rules to stop harmful financial flows.

Tech company Meta is breaking French anti-discrimination law, due to the sexist recommendations of its algorithm, according ...

Documenting the increasingly important role played by the Liberian timber industry and shipping register in fuelling regional ...

A mine worker walks near the leaching pools near Pangwa (the Kachin Special Region 1), in Northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border in early 2024. Supplied by a Global Witness partner To reverse the ...

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 ...

With Brazil’s president branding COP30 the "turnaround COP", environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and other experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include ...

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 ...

Trump’s obsession with rare earth minerals makes sense when you understand their role in modern military technology Critical minerals have in recent years been central to global visions of a greener ...

While Trump zeroes in on embattled Ukraine's critical mineral reserves, conflict and inequality clash with efforts for a just energy transition across the globe The extraction and trade of some ...