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For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...
As the world’s leading owner of transition mineral production, China must shoulder the burden of keeping the energy transition green. But do its regulations of mining abroad (and the industry’s ESG ...
These land and environmental defenders – many of whom are Indigenous Peoples, Afrodescendant, farmers, community leaders, journalists, lawyers and Indigenous Peoples – are targeted for daring to ...
The mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...
Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...
The Campo Agua’e community Two years after condemning state failures in Yerutí, the UN issued another ruling denouncing the devastating impact of fumigations on a nearby Indigenous community. Campo ...
A wave of violent conflict is sweeping the Paraguayan countryside, driven by demand for land to grow a single crop: soy ...
The Global Witness Land and Environmental Defenders Campaign aims to stop the broad range of threats and attacks that land and environmental defenders and their communities face. It strives to raise ...