Banking Deforestation Rainforest 
Legal Planet
MAY 5, 2022
The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest. According to the World Bank, “Mexico’s geographic characteristics make it a highly vulnerable country to the adverse impacts of climate change. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 10, 2021
Sometimes referred to as “Over the River” territory, or “OTR” for short, the island’s northern parts also go by the name written on a sign that juts from the sprawling landform’s parched banks: “Carib Country.” . It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests.
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Academy of Natural Sciences
JANUARY 12, 2023
The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.
Legal Planet
JULY 5, 2023
According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At trillion or 6.8
A Greener Life
MARCH 31, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen A coalition of green groups led by Greenpeace has in a report, found that Europe’s largest banks have failed to stop investing in climate and nature-destructive projects. In addition, the authors of the report highlight that the European Union (EU) provides 9.4%
A Greener Life
AUGUST 27, 2023
Last week the central bank predicted it could lead to a 1.9% Optimistic environmentalists hope this is the first step in beginning to heal the Amazon rainforest which scientists have said it nearing irreversible tipping points. Petroecuador has previously argued a ban would cost Ecuador $13.8
Environmental Progress
JUNE 29, 2020
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.
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