corporate environmental transgressors
Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark: Report
A new report from Greenpeace contends that multinational consumer goods companies are addressing the global plastics crisis with "false solutions."
New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation
Over the past decade there has been a rise in corporate zero-deforestation commitments, but very few companies have shown progress in meeting their goals of reducing deforestation in their supply chains by 2020.
New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia's forests
An Indonesian-owned plantation company operating in Liberia has come under renewed scrutiny for allegedly clearing hundreds of hectares of protected forestland, including chimpanzee habitat, wetlands and river buffer zones.
Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo
The findings place Asia Pulp & Paper squarely in the middle of an emerging debate about the presence of "shadow companies" among the holdings of the conglomerates that dominate Indonesia's plantation sector.
Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report
How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources
A major driver of Indonesia's deforestation and land rights crisis is the corrupt sell-off of land and resources by politicians, often to raise money for expensive political campaigns.
When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price
Activists have warned of a worrying number of farmers in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province being driven off their land by palm oil companies, often with the support of the local police and officials.