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BREAKING: Shell + Equinor’s new North Sea oil firm, Adura, could mean a *£1.3 billion tax dodge* - enough to pay for 1 year’s worth of UK free school meals.
That's why we joined Uplift + Fossil Free London to tell the Chancellor to STOP the Adura tax dodge! https://gwitness.org/43iChlf
That's why we joined Uplift + Fossil Free London to tell the Chancellor to STOP the Adura tax dodge! https://gwitness.org/43iChlf
Shell’s ‘Adura’ will see oil giant dodge £1.3 billion in UK tax
Climate, fuel poverty & tax justice groups have written to Chancellor Reeves and HMRC calling for an investigation into the new North Sea oil venture and legal reforms to stop tax dodges in the Autumn Budget
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November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
BREAKING: Shell + Equinor’s new North Sea oil firm, Adura, could mean a *£1.3 billion tax dodge* - enough to pay for 1 year’s worth of UK free school meals.
That's why we joined Uplift + Fossil Free London to tell the Chancellor to STOP the Adura tax dodge! https://gwitness.org/43iChlf
That's why we joined Uplift + Fossil Free London to tell the Chancellor to STOP the Adura tax dodge! https://gwitness.org/43iChlf
The French equalities regulator ruled that Facebook's algorithm is sexist and breaking the law. This follows a joint investigation with Fondation des Femmes & is the first time a European regulator has called out Meta for its sexist algorithm.
https://gwitness.org/3WD0NtG
https://gwitness.org/3WD0NtG
Facebook algorithm breaking the law, French equalities regulator decides
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November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The French equalities regulator ruled that Facebook's algorithm is sexist and breaking the law. This follows a joint investigation with Fondation des Femmes & is the first time a European regulator has called out Meta for its sexist algorithm.
https://gwitness.org/3WD0NtG
https://gwitness.org/3WD0NtG
🚨BREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week.
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
New data shows mega-pollution of companies still in scope of CSDDD
Even after intense lobbying by polluters and a vote to water down new EU corporate accountability laws, firms affected are still responsible for huge emissions
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October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🚨BREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week.
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
With less than a month to go until COP, we found that the Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the “lungs of the earth” from deforestation.
Read here: https://gwitness.org/4neS37S
Read here: https://gwitness.org/4neS37S
Defenders of the Amazon targeted in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the Amazon forest from deforestation, Global Witness has found
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October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
With less than a month to go until COP, we found that the Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the “lungs of the earth” from deforestation.
Read here: https://gwitness.org/4neS37S
Read here: https://gwitness.org/4neS37S
Britain’s biggest financial institutions are financing forest destruction and reaping the rewards.
Read more 👉 https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
Read more 👉 https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Britain’s biggest financial institutions are financing forest destruction and reaping the rewards.
Read more 👉 https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
Read more 👉 https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
These are the top 5 US financial giants making the most money from deforestation since the Paris Agreement.
Dig into the data: https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
Dig into the data: https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
These are the top 5 US financial giants making the most money from deforestation since the Paris Agreement.
Dig into the data: https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
Dig into the data: https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5
We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.
🌏 Across Asia, land and environmental defenders are being criminalised simply for protecting their homes, forests and communities. Read our full report:
https://gwitness.org/4mUW1lQ
https://gwitness.org/4mUW1lQ
October 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🌏 Across Asia, land and environmental defenders are being criminalised simply for protecting their homes, forests and communities. Read our full report:
https://gwitness.org/4mUW1lQ
https://gwitness.org/4mUW1lQ
Since 2012, we have documented over 2,200 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders. Read how these cases are documented, the challenges in gathering data, and why defenders’ voices must be heard.
👉 Read more: https://gwitness.org/3KBIMZT
👉 Read more: https://gwitness.org/3KBIMZT
Documenting killings and disappearances of defenders
Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental defender is killed or disappeared
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October 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Since 2012, we have documented over 2,200 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders. Read how these cases are documented, the challenges in gathering data, and why defenders’ voices must be heard.
👉 Read more: https://gwitness.org/3KBIMZT
👉 Read more: https://gwitness.org/3KBIMZT
A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear:
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
Europeans demand stronger climate action and corporate accountability
Majority of Europeans want large companies to be held accountable for human rights and environmental harms in their value chains, according to a new poll
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October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear:
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
Global Witness condemns the Trump Administration’s attacks on the grant maker Open Society Foundations as a politically motivated attempt to censor speech the US government doesn't like.
Read our full response:
https://gwitness.org/4pEW2Ng
Read our full response:
https://gwitness.org/4pEW2Ng
Trump’s attacks on OSF politically motivated
Global Witness condemns the Trump Administration’s attacks on the grant maker Open Society Foundations as a politically motivated attempt to censor speech the US government doesn't like
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September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Global Witness condemns the Trump Administration’s attacks on the grant maker Open Society Foundations as a politically motivated attempt to censor speech the US government doesn't like.
Read our full response:
https://gwitness.org/4pEW2Ng
Read our full response:
https://gwitness.org/4pEW2Ng
Why is nickel mined in Russia still ending up in Western EVs & steel? A loophole means refined nickel processed in EU counts as “Finnish,” so it slips through US import bans. We must close this gap. Read more: https://gwitness.org/4of1HbB
Sanctions gap lets Russian-mined nickel flow to Western markets
A European loophole keeps nickel from Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel flowing to the US long after Washington banned imports of the Russian-origin metal
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September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Why is nickel mined in Russia still ending up in Western EVs & steel? A loophole means refined nickel processed in EU counts as “Finnish,” so it slips through US import bans. We must close this gap. Read more: https://gwitness.org/4of1HbB
Such great energy at the #MakeThemPay march.
Thousands came together to demanding that UK govt:
💰 Tax the super rich
🌍 Make Polluters Pay
✊ Protect workers, not billionaires
Our economy should work for people, not polluters and billionaires. 👉 Take action act.globalwitness.org/page/172640/...
Thousands came together to demanding that UK govt:
💰 Tax the super rich
🌍 Make Polluters Pay
✊ Protect workers, not billionaires
Our economy should work for people, not polluters and billionaires. 👉 Take action act.globalwitness.org/page/172640/...
Polluters broke it, we're paying for it Make Polluters Pay
Extreme weather events are causing widespread destruction and financial hardship.
Yet the biggest polluters continue to profit while ordinary people bear the brunt of the costs. It’s time we stand to...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Such great energy at the #MakeThemPay march.
Thousands came together to demanding that UK govt:
💰 Tax the super rich
🌍 Make Polluters Pay
✊ Protect workers, not billionaires
Our economy should work for people, not polluters and billionaires. 👉 Take action act.globalwitness.org/page/172640/...
Thousands came together to demanding that UK govt:
💰 Tax the super rich
🌍 Make Polluters Pay
✊ Protect workers, not billionaires
Our economy should work for people, not polluters and billionaires. 👉 Take action act.globalwitness.org/page/172640/...
Good News: UN announces new COP measures in huge win for people over polluters.
This week the UN announced new disclosure requirements for delegates attending COP30 – a big win for accountability and transparency at the world’s most important climate talks.
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This week the UN announced new disclosure requirements for delegates attending COP30 – a big win for accountability and transparency at the world’s most important climate talks.
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COP disclosure requirements huge win for people over polluters
UN Climate Change have announced new disclosure requirements for people attending COP, in a big win for accountability and transparency at climate talks
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September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Good News: UN announces new COP measures in huge win for people over polluters.
This week the UN announced new disclosure requirements for delegates attending COP30 – a big win for accountability and transparency at the world’s most important climate talks.
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This week the UN announced new disclosure requirements for delegates attending COP30 – a big win for accountability and transparency at the world’s most important climate talks.
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🚨NEW: Our investigation found that California's wildfire zones are littered with oil wells.
Over 170,000 of them are in areas of increased wildfire hazard.
1.6 million Californians face this double threat, including nearly 100,000 under fives.
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Over 170,000 of them are in areas of increased wildfire hazard.
1.6 million Californians face this double threat, including nearly 100,000 under fives.
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Risky oil wells widespread in California wildfire hazard zones
Oil and gas wells pose risks to health and environment as climate crisis expands California's fire hazard zones
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August 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🚨NEW: Our investigation found that California's wildfire zones are littered with oil wells.
Over 170,000 of them are in areas of increased wildfire hazard.
1.6 million Californians face this double threat, including nearly 100,000 under fives.
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Over 170,000 of them are in areas of increased wildfire hazard.
1.6 million Californians face this double threat, including nearly 100,000 under fives.
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
In a new opinion piece for Context our senior legal counsel David Shipton unpacks Meta’s global legal strategy which makes it extremely challenging for victims of online harms to seek justice.
www.context.news/big-tech/opi...
www.context.news/big-tech/opi...
Courts push back on Meta’s legal strategy | Context by TRF
What we have concluded about Meta’s legal strategy following our cases against the tech giant
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August 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In a new opinion piece for Context our senior legal counsel David Shipton unpacks Meta’s global legal strategy which makes it extremely challenging for victims of online harms to seek justice.
www.context.news/big-tech/opi...
www.context.news/big-tech/opi...
Flash floods devastated central Texas on July 4, yet Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that cuts weather forecasting and clean energy funding while deepening oil & gas tax breaks. It's time to make polluters pay.
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https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/the-oil-and-gas-connection-to-the-deadly-texas-floods/"
August 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Flash floods devastated central Texas on July 4, yet Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that cuts weather forecasting and clean energy funding while deepening oil & gas tax breaks. It's time to make polluters pay.
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What does it say about our financial system when a company linked to Amazon #deforestation, Indigenous land invasions, and corruption is approved to trade on the New York Stock Exchange – the biggest stock market in the world?
Why – and how are they allowed?
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Why – and how are they allowed?
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Why meatpacker JBS’s IPO matters for the planet
Meat giant JBS’s US stock market debut exposes the deep flaws in the global financial system and raises urgent questions for regulators, investors and the future of our climate-critical forests
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August 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What does it say about our financial system when a company linked to Amazon #deforestation, Indigenous land invasions, and corruption is approved to trade on the New York Stock Exchange – the biggest stock market in the world?
Why – and how are they allowed?
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Why – and how are they allowed?
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The ICJ’s ruling is a monumental victory for climate justice. It means:
✅ States must act on climate
💰 Polluters must pay up
⚖️ Justice is tipping toward frontline communities – and away from fossil fuel giants & their state enablers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
✅ States must act on climate
💰 Polluters must pay up
⚖️ Justice is tipping toward frontline communities – and away from fossil fuel giants & their state enablers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
A climate 'reckoning' just unfolded at the World Court. What happened?
The World Court's climate change decision has been hailed a "planetary scale" win for climate advocates pushing for stronger action against carbon pollution.
www.abc.net.au
July 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The ICJ’s ruling is a monumental victory for climate justice. It means:
✅ States must act on climate
💰 Polluters must pay up
⚖️ Justice is tipping toward frontline communities – and away from fossil fuel giants & their state enablers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
✅ States must act on climate
💰 Polluters must pay up
⚖️ Justice is tipping toward frontline communities – and away from fossil fuel giants & their state enablers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
NEW: our investigation reveals former Trump associates are cashing in as the US cuts aid.
Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more.
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Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more.
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Trump-linked firms make millions from aid-deprived nations
Pakistan, Somalia and Haiti among 11 nations to sign deals with Trump-linked figures, many trading resources like minerals for aid or military support
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July 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
NEW: our investigation reveals former Trump associates are cashing in as the US cuts aid.
Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more.
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Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more.
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🚨 Critical minerals are powering the green transition – but at what cost?
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
Critical minerals: The one issue COP has forgotten about
To reverse the climate crisis, COP30 must address the unforeseen consequences of the critical mineral boom, which is adding more deforestation and CO2 emissions
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June 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Critical minerals are powering the green transition – but at what cost?
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
Land and environmental defenders in the Caribbean are under threat and governments are dragging their feet.
The Escazú Agreement could help protect them. It’s time to ratify and implement it.
Why it matters ⬇️
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The Escazú Agreement could help protect them. It’s time to ratify and implement it.
Why it matters ⬇️
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Why the Escazú Agreement matters for Caribbean defenders
Attacks on land and environmental defenders in the Caribbean are often overshadowed by mainland Latin America, but protecting their rights is just as crucial
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June 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Land and environmental defenders in the Caribbean are under threat and governments are dragging their feet.
The Escazú Agreement could help protect them. It’s time to ratify and implement it.
Why it matters ⬇️
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The Escazú Agreement could help protect them. It’s time to ratify and implement it.
Why it matters ⬇️
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
TikTok pushed double the amount of hard-right content to users right before the Polish election, compared to centrist and left-wing posts.
What does that say about algorithmic influence on democracy?
Full investigation here:
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#TikTok #Poland
What does that say about algorithmic influence on democracy?
Full investigation here:
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#TikTok #Poland
Polish elections: TikTok overpromotes hard right content
Before Poland’s presidential election runoff, new investigation suggests TikTok feed pushes more hard right content to new, politically balanced users
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May 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
TikTok pushed double the amount of hard-right content to users right before the Polish election, compared to centrist and left-wing posts.
What does that say about algorithmic influence on democracy?
Full investigation here:
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#TikTok #Poland
What does that say about algorithmic influence on democracy?
Full investigation here:
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#TikTok #Poland
Proud to stand with @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social and a host of other climate & trade union activists yesterday to call for a worker-led transition.
We need a fair and fast energy transition that protects ALL workers - and higher taxes on big polluters to fund it.
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We need a fair and fast energy transition that protects ALL workers - and higher taxes on big polluters to fund it.
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Tax the biggest polluters to tackle climate and cost-of-living crises facing our society.
May 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Proud to stand with @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social and a host of other climate & trade union activists yesterday to call for a worker-led transition.
We need a fair and fast energy transition that protects ALL workers - and higher taxes on big polluters to fund it.
bsky.app/profile/taxj...
We need a fair and fast energy transition that protects ALL workers - and higher taxes on big polluters to fund it.
bsky.app/profile/taxj...
We found Santander has helped finance company responsible for destruction of an area of climate-critical forests three times the size of Madrid
The estimated emissions from this deforestation are equivalent to over 30 million transatlantic flights✈️
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The estimated emissions from this deforestation are equivalent to over 30 million transatlantic flights✈️
gwitness.org/43byg0Y
May 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We found Santander has helped finance company responsible for destruction of an area of climate-critical forests three times the size of Madrid
The estimated emissions from this deforestation are equivalent to over 30 million transatlantic flights✈️
gwitness.org/43byg0Y
The estimated emissions from this deforestation are equivalent to over 30 million transatlantic flights✈️
gwitness.org/43byg0Y
Our new polling with @wwf.org.uk shows 70% of the UK want to stop illegal deforestation in UK supply chains.
The time for action is now.
The time for action is now.
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our new polling with @wwf.org.uk shows 70% of the UK want to stop illegal deforestation in UK supply chains.
The time for action is now.
The time for action is now.