Global Witness has strongly condemned the move by the UK government to proscribe as a terrorist organisation the protest ...

For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...

As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...

Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their ...

The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...

The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US law makers retreating ...

With climate change impacts steadily rising, the billions pocketed by fossil fuels is an insult to the communities worst hit. It's time to make polluters pay ...

Key findings Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in ...

Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.

Mercury exposure is associated with a range of serious health complications, including impacts on pregnant woman and infant brain development. Local people had previously sounded the alarm over ...

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 ...

Hectares, Nov 2021-Dec 2024The UK’s total deforestation footprint linked to these direct imports grew by more than 39,300ha – an area of land bigger than the UK’s New Forest – since the Environment ...