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BREAKING ❗The 16th #BankingOnClimateChaos reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $7.9 TRILLION since 2016. See how your bank is using your money at bankingonclimatechaos.org 💸🔥🌍 #DefundClimateChaos #BOCC
Happiest of holidays to all of our supporters and partners! 🌟 🎊
December 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happiest of holidays to all of our supporters and partners! 🌟 🎊
2025 marks 40 years of Rainforest Action Network. We’ve been winning since 1985 and we’re not backing down now. We’re keeping the pressure up on the biggest companies supporting extraction – but we need your support! Help us start 2026 strong and donate to our End Of Year campaign today: ran.org/EOY
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
2025 marks 40 years of Rainforest Action Network. We’ve been winning since 1985 and we’re not backing down now. We’re keeping the pressure up on the biggest companies supporting extraction – but we need your support! Help us start 2026 strong and donate to our End Of Year campaign today: ran.org/EOY
Satellites have revealed 157 miles of illegally-constructed canals in the Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, a nationally-protected region. These canals will be used to drain peatlands to enable land clearing for #PalmOil plantations.
Help us continue investigations like this one! Give now: ran.org/EOY
Help us continue investigations like this one! Give now: ran.org/EOY
Palm oil producers are draining the life out of the Orangutan Capital of the World
RAN finds fresh evidence of illegal canals in the Leuser Ecosystem
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Satellites have revealed 157 miles of illegally-constructed canals in the Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, a nationally-protected region. These canals will be used to drain peatlands to enable land clearing for #PalmOil plantations.
Help us continue investigations like this one! Give now: ran.org/EOY
Help us continue investigations like this one! Give now: ran.org/EOY
This year, we celebrated a whole decade of work to protect the #LeuserEcosystem from deforestation linked to palm oil. 200+ major brands, traders, and banks have now adopted No Deforestation, No Peatland, and No Exploitation (NDPE) policies.
Give now & help us keep fighting for forests: ran.org/EOY
Give now & help us keep fighting for forests: ran.org/EOY
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This year, we celebrated a whole decade of work to protect the #LeuserEcosystem from deforestation linked to palm oil. 200+ major brands, traders, and banks have now adopted No Deforestation, No Peatland, and No Exploitation (NDPE) policies.
Give now & help us keep fighting for forests: ran.org/EOY
Give now & help us keep fighting for forests: ran.org/EOY
We released our 10th annual #BankingOnClimateChaos report this year! 🔥 🔥 Wall Street banks INCREASED their fossil fuel financing during the hottest year ever recorded (2024).
We're fundraising to continue doing this research and pressuring banks to defund fossil fuels. Can you help us? ran.org/EOY
We're fundraising to continue doing this research and pressuring banks to defund fossil fuels. Can you help us? ran.org/EOY
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We released our 10th annual #BankingOnClimateChaos report this year! 🔥 🔥 Wall Street banks INCREASED their fossil fuel financing during the hottest year ever recorded (2024).
We're fundraising to continue doing this research and pressuring banks to defund fossil fuels. Can you help us? ran.org/EOY
We're fundraising to continue doing this research and pressuring banks to defund fossil fuels. Can you help us? ran.org/EOY
Oreo-maker Mondelēz is getting coal in their stocking this year! We visited the Oreo Cafe in New Jersey's American Dream Mall to deliver a Christmas message: be nice, not naughty, and adopt a policy to defend Human Rights Defenders!
#HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #KeepForestsStanding
#HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #KeepForestsStanding
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oreo-maker Mondelēz is getting coal in their stocking this year! We visited the Oreo Cafe in New Jersey's American Dream Mall to deliver a Christmas message: be nice, not naughty, and adopt a policy to defend Human Rights Defenders!
#HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #KeepForestsStanding
#HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #KeepForestsStanding
HAPPENING NOW: Santa’s elves delivered a #Christmas message to Oreo-maker, Mondelēz, at their #OreoCafe in New Jersey.
Mondelēz can help stop the destruction of Indigenous lives. Adopt a Human Rights Defender policy now!
#KeepForestsStanding
Mondelēz can help stop the destruction of Indigenous lives. Adopt a Human Rights Defender policy now!
#KeepForestsStanding
December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Santa’s elves delivered a #Christmas message to Oreo-maker, Mondelēz, at their #OreoCafe in New Jersey.
Mondelēz can help stop the destruction of Indigenous lives. Adopt a Human Rights Defender policy now!
#KeepForestsStanding
Mondelēz can help stop the destruction of Indigenous lives. Adopt a Human Rights Defender policy now!
#KeepForestsStanding
This summer @climatetown.bsky.social covered how the global demand for #PalmOil is driving deforestation in rainforests around the world. And in turn, forest destruction is contributing to the climate crisis.
Support this critical research
👉ran.org/EOY
And watch the episode! youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
Support this critical research
👉ran.org/EOY
And watch the episode! youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
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December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This summer @climatetown.bsky.social covered how the global demand for #PalmOil is driving deforestation in rainforests around the world. And in turn, forest destruction is contributing to the climate crisis.
Support this critical research
👉ran.org/EOY
And watch the episode! youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
Support this critical research
👉ran.org/EOY
And watch the episode! youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
Pressure from activists & Indigenous leaders forced Procter & Gamble to make positive changes to its policies this year! They've now acknowledged that protecting forests starts with protecting those who live there✊
Help us continue securing these wins! Give today: ran.org/EOY
https://bit.ly/463p0i5
Help us continue securing these wins! Give today: ran.org/EOY
https://bit.ly/463p0i5
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pressure from activists & Indigenous leaders forced Procter & Gamble to make positive changes to its policies this year! They've now acknowledged that protecting forests starts with protecting those who live there✊
Help us continue securing these wins! Give today: ran.org/EOY
https://bit.ly/463p0i5
Help us continue securing these wins! Give today: ran.org/EOY
https://bit.ly/463p0i5
Fossil fuel projects can't operate without 3 things: permits, funding & insurance.
This year, people power convinced Chubb Insurance to rule out THREE major projects: Rio Grande LNG, Calcasieu Pass LNG, & the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Help us keep doing this work!
👉 ran.org/EOY
This year, people power convinced Chubb Insurance to rule out THREE major projects: Rio Grande LNG, Calcasieu Pass LNG, & the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Help us keep doing this work!
👉 ran.org/EOY
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Fossil fuel projects can't operate without 3 things: permits, funding & insurance.
This year, people power convinced Chubb Insurance to rule out THREE major projects: Rio Grande LNG, Calcasieu Pass LNG, & the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Help us keep doing this work!
👉 ran.org/EOY
This year, people power convinced Chubb Insurance to rule out THREE major projects: Rio Grande LNG, Calcasieu Pass LNG, & the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Help us keep doing this work!
👉 ran.org/EOY
The #MahakamUlu region is 1.5 million hectares (3.8 million acres) of extremely biodiverse forest. This remaining forest is under threat by deforestation as forests get converted to palm oil plantations. Much of this deforestation overlaps with Indigenous Dayak territories.
https://bit.ly/4aDeUXQ
https://bit.ly/4aDeUXQ
Mahakam Landscape: Borneo's Last Biodiverse Backbone Under Threat - Rainforest Action Network
In East Kalimantan lies one of Borneo's last living ecosystem backbones -- the Mahakam Landscape.
www.ran.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The #MahakamUlu region is 1.5 million hectares (3.8 million acres) of extremely biodiverse forest. This remaining forest is under threat by deforestation as forests get converted to palm oil plantations. Much of this deforestation overlaps with Indigenous Dayak territories.
https://bit.ly/4aDeUXQ
https://bit.ly/4aDeUXQ
"We relied on this ecosystem for thousands of years, and now we don’t have to ask permission to gather our foods and medicines there anymore"
200 years after displacement, 900 acres of land near Yosemite National Park have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk people! 🎉
bit.ly/4rHuvM7
200 years after displacement, 900 acres of land near Yosemite National Park have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk people! 🎉
bit.ly/4rHuvM7
Nearly 1,000 acres near Yosemite returned to California tribe
The land west of Yosemite is now back under Indigenous stewardship.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"We relied on this ecosystem for thousands of years, and now we don’t have to ask permission to gather our foods and medicines there anymore"
200 years after displacement, 900 acres of land near Yosemite National Park have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk people! 🎉
bit.ly/4rHuvM7
200 years after displacement, 900 acres of land near Yosemite National Park have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk people! 🎉
bit.ly/4rHuvM7
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs have submitted a letter to 43 banks and pension funds to demand respect for Gitanyow rights, and urge against financing the proposed Ksi Lisims methane gas (LNG) project or its developers. Share and support! 👇 #NoLNG
https://bsky.app/profile/stand.earth/post/3m76dqchzss2e
https://bsky.app/profile/stand.earth/post/3m76dqchzss2e
Stand.earth (@stand.earth)
This week, Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs put 40+ private banks, credit agencies and pension funds on notice in a letter endorsed by more than 125 civil society organizations from around the world – calli...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs have submitted a letter to 43 banks and pension funds to demand respect for Gitanyow rights, and urge against financing the proposed Ksi Lisims methane gas (LNG) project or its developers. Share and support! 👇 #NoLNG
https://bsky.app/profile/stand.earth/post/3m76dqchzss2e
https://bsky.app/profile/stand.earth/post/3m76dqchzss2e
This year, we celebrated 40 YEARS of RAN ✊
One of our earliest actions was in 1994 – we pressured Hollywood's major studios to phase out the use of lauan, a tropical forest hardwood used in set design.
We're committed to fighting for another 40 years, but we need your help to do it 👉ran.org/EOY
One of our earliest actions was in 1994 – we pressured Hollywood's major studios to phase out the use of lauan, a tropical forest hardwood used in set design.
We're committed to fighting for another 40 years, but we need your help to do it 👉ran.org/EOY
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This year, we celebrated 40 YEARS of RAN ✊
One of our earliest actions was in 1994 – we pressured Hollywood's major studios to phase out the use of lauan, a tropical forest hardwood used in set design.
We're committed to fighting for another 40 years, but we need your help to do it 👉ran.org/EOY
One of our earliest actions was in 1994 – we pressured Hollywood's major studios to phase out the use of lauan, a tropical forest hardwood used in set design.
We're committed to fighting for another 40 years, but we need your help to do it 👉ran.org/EOY
The annual #KeepForestsStanding report is out and the takeaway is simple:
Brands are still not meeting their own deforestation & human rights promises. Lots of shiny policies, not a lot of follow-through.
Of the 10 brands analyzed, NONE got higher than a "C" grade.
More 👉 https://bit.ly/3KoVTxR
Brands are still not meeting their own deforestation & human rights promises. Lots of shiny policies, not a lot of follow-through.
Of the 10 brands analyzed, NONE got higher than a "C" grade.
More 👉 https://bit.ly/3KoVTxR
Global Consumer Brands Continue to Fall Short on Deforestation and Human Rights - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network
Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.
www.ran.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The annual #KeepForestsStanding report is out and the takeaway is simple:
Brands are still not meeting their own deforestation & human rights promises. Lots of shiny policies, not a lot of follow-through.
Of the 10 brands analyzed, NONE got higher than a "C" grade.
More 👉 https://bit.ly/3KoVTxR
Brands are still not meeting their own deforestation & human rights promises. Lots of shiny policies, not a lot of follow-through.
Of the 10 brands analyzed, NONE got higher than a "C" grade.
More 👉 https://bit.ly/3KoVTxR
Reposted by Rainforest Action Network
Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
Tell President Noboa: Do Not Pay Chevron a Single Dime! | Amazon Watch
Tell President Noboa to stand with the people of Ecuador, not a corporation that poisoned them!
amazonwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
Reposted by Rainforest Action Network
Amazon Watch Responds to Reports That Ecuador Told To Pay $220 Million to Chevron. “We stand with affected communities & urge Pres. Noboa to reject this illegitimate award & enforce Ecuadorian law by ensuring Chevron pays its debt to those it poisoned.” amazonwatch.org/news/2025/12...
Amazon Watch Responds to Reports That Ecuador Told To Pay $220 Million to Chevron | Amazon Watch
“A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation."
amazonwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Amazon Watch Responds to Reports That Ecuador Told To Pay $220 Million to Chevron. “We stand with affected communities & urge Pres. Noboa to reject this illegitimate award & enforce Ecuadorian law by ensuring Chevron pays its debt to those it poisoned.” amazonwatch.org/news/2025/12...
When you donate to RAN, your gift funds: groundbreaking research, critical support for frontline and Indigenous communities, and hard-hitting direct actions.
We're launching our End-of-Year fundraising campaign NOW! When you donate your gift will be matched dollar for dollar. Give now: ran.org/EOY
We're launching our End-of-Year fundraising campaign NOW! When you donate your gift will be matched dollar for dollar. Give now: ran.org/EOY
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When you donate to RAN, your gift funds: groundbreaking research, critical support for frontline and Indigenous communities, and hard-hitting direct actions.
We're launching our End-of-Year fundraising campaign NOW! When you donate your gift will be matched dollar for dollar. Give now: ran.org/EOY
We're launching our End-of-Year fundraising campaign NOW! When you donate your gift will be matched dollar for dollar. Give now: ran.org/EOY
Rainforests regulate water cycles, supply food & medicine, and stabilize our climate by absorbing carbon 🌳
But they can also be our undoing, if we keep chopping them down. With every tree that falls, carbon gets released, making a natural climate stabilizer a climate problem.
https://bit.ly/3MCsD7i
But they can also be our undoing, if we keep chopping them down. With every tree that falls, carbon gets released, making a natural climate stabilizer a climate problem.
https://bit.ly/3MCsD7i
Forests Can Be Assets or Liabilities. It's Up to Us
The world's forests are premium assets. They generate priceless benefits -- from capturing carbon and generating rain to supplying food, medicine, wood and countless other products.But neglected forests can quickly turn into liabilities.
www.wri.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rainforests regulate water cycles, supply food & medicine, and stabilize our climate by absorbing carbon 🌳
But they can also be our undoing, if we keep chopping them down. With every tree that falls, carbon gets released, making a natural climate stabilizer a climate problem.
https://bit.ly/3MCsD7i
But they can also be our undoing, if we keep chopping them down. With every tree that falls, carbon gets released, making a natural climate stabilizer a climate problem.
https://bit.ly/3MCsD7i
Just a short boat ride from Belém where #COP30 took place, resides the quilombola community of Menino Jesus. Like other forest dwellers, they lacked significant representation at COP30, despite being one of the groups most impacted by climate change & industrial expansion.
https://bit.ly/4pKEajf
https://bit.ly/4pKEajf
‘We're true guardians of the forest': quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition
Short boat ride from Cop30 host, Afro-descendant residents of Menino Jesus say their voices are not being heard
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just a short boat ride from Belém where #COP30 took place, resides the quilombola community of Menino Jesus. Like other forest dwellers, they lacked significant representation at COP30, despite being one of the groups most impacted by climate change & industrial expansion.
https://bit.ly/4pKEajf
https://bit.ly/4pKEajf
Outside of a #WorldCup event at the Kennedy Center: Bank of America continues to fund the methane gas buildout on the Gulf Coast, making huge profits at the expense of all of us, but especially Southwest Louisiana residents.
BofA must SAY NO to financing big methane export terminals like CP2
#NoLNG
BofA must SAY NO to financing big methane export terminals like CP2
#NoLNG
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The UK & Netherlands just told TotalEnergies ✨no thanks✨ and refused a combined $2.2B in finance for the #MozambiqueLNG project — the first major financiers to walk away.
Total built this project on human rights abuses & climate chaos. Now the money is starting to dry up.
https://reut.rs/4pgIEhT
Total built this project on human rights abuses & climate chaos. Now the money is starting to dry up.
https://reut.rs/4pgIEhT
Britain, Netherlands withdraw $2.2 billion backing for Total-led Mozambique LNG
Britain and the Netherlands are withdrawing a combined $2.2 billion in support for the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique LNG project, they said separately on Monday, after both hired firms to probe human rights concerns surrounding the development.
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The UK & Netherlands just told TotalEnergies ✨no thanks✨ and refused a combined $2.2B in finance for the #MozambiqueLNG project — the first major financiers to walk away.
Total built this project on human rights abuses & climate chaos. Now the money is starting to dry up.
https://reut.rs/4pgIEhT
Total built this project on human rights abuses & climate chaos. Now the money is starting to dry up.
https://reut.rs/4pgIEhT
The LNG boom is out of control — but now there’s a way to track it.
🟡 279 new LNG terminals planned
🟡 $174B in bank financing since 2021
🟡 Emissions equal to the U.S. + EU combined by 2030
Banks are driving this crisis. Communities are paying the price.
Explore the data:
➡️ ExitLNG.org
🟡 279 new LNG terminals planned
🟡 $174B in bank financing since 2021
🟡 Emissions equal to the U.S. + EU combined by 2030
Banks are driving this crisis. Communities are paying the price.
Explore the data:
➡️ ExitLNG.org
Exit LNG - Put an end to LNG expansion
Global LNG supply is expected to expand by almost 50%, while global LNG carrier capacity is projected to grow by around 40%.
exitlng.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The LNG boom is out of control — but now there’s a way to track it.
🟡 279 new LNG terminals planned
🟡 $174B in bank financing since 2021
🟡 Emissions equal to the U.S. + EU combined by 2030
Banks are driving this crisis. Communities are paying the price.
Explore the data:
➡️ ExitLNG.org
🟡 279 new LNG terminals planned
🟡 $174B in bank financing since 2021
🟡 Emissions equal to the U.S. + EU combined by 2030
Banks are driving this crisis. Communities are paying the price.
Explore the data:
➡️ ExitLNG.org
You might have deforestation-causing products in your home.👇
Our annual #KeepForestsStanding report analyzes 10 major consumer goods brands – including Oreo-maker, Mondelēz. The results reveal inadequate progress on both human rights and deforestation.
More on #Substack: https://bit.ly/4aA9Sv8
Our annual #KeepForestsStanding report analyzes 10 major consumer goods brands – including Oreo-maker, Mondelēz. The results reveal inadequate progress on both human rights and deforestation.
More on #Substack: https://bit.ly/4aA9Sv8
Report: Corporate self-regulation fails, yet again
Our 2025 scorecard reveals weak corporate progress on human rights, deforestation
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You might have deforestation-causing products in your home.👇
Our annual #KeepForestsStanding report analyzes 10 major consumer goods brands – including Oreo-maker, Mondelēz. The results reveal inadequate progress on both human rights and deforestation.
More on #Substack: https://bit.ly/4aA9Sv8
Our annual #KeepForestsStanding report analyzes 10 major consumer goods brands – including Oreo-maker, Mondelēz. The results reveal inadequate progress on both human rights and deforestation.
More on #Substack: https://bit.ly/4aA9Sv8
Amazing news – the UK government has REFUSED $1.15 BILLION to TotalEnergies’ controversial Mozambique LNG project! This comes after years of resistance by local groups. This has a potential to set a precedent for other financiers, like Société Générale. #DefundClimateChaos
https://on.ft.com/4ou4pcG
https://on.ft.com/4ou4pcG
UK withdraws financing for Total's Mozambique LNG development
French company's project has been dogged by controversy over environmental, human rights and security issues
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Amazing news – the UK government has REFUSED $1.15 BILLION to TotalEnergies’ controversial Mozambique LNG project! This comes after years of resistance by local groups. This has a potential to set a precedent for other financiers, like Société Générale. #DefundClimateChaos
https://on.ft.com/4ou4pcG
https://on.ft.com/4ou4pcG