Tropical forests like the Amazon are home to Indigenous nationalities who unambiguously oppose the exploitation of the land they’ve lived on since time immemorial.

These forests are also hotbeds of biodiversity, supporting millions of rare and unique species—many of which are critical to the production of life-saving drugs. And, like every forest, tropical forests are essential climate regulators, safely storing greenhouse gasses that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, further accelerating global warming. In spite of all of this, tropical forests around the world are under threat.

Our current tropical forest campaigns focus on stopping new fossil fuel production in the Amazon by restricting the capital that financial institutions provide for expanded oil drilling and trade finance, securing new policy and regulatory mechanisms to ensure California, one of the world’s largest customers of Amazonian oil, is not complicit in expanded oil drilling in the region, and setting higher ambition for the Amazon in global conservation policy. 

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Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia

Amazonia is one of the last places on the planet that the oil industry and industrial extraction should be expanding and it is time for banks to step up and ensure that they aren’t complicit in harming Indigenous rights and the continued degradation of this critical region.

We must protect Amazonia. Drone shot of Amazonia rainforest and a river in the heart of it.

Amazonia 80×2025 Initiative

Amazonia is in the midst of a tipping point crisis and unless we secure ambitious protection for it, we could soon be seeing the rainforest transform into a savannah.

Ending California’s complicity in new oil drilling in the Amazon

As a major consumer of Amazonian oil, the state of California plays an outsized role in the destruction of this sacred rainforest.

Cargill: A Burning Legacy

We’re engaging the family owners of Cargill—the largest private company in America and the largest agribusiness company in the world—to eliminate human rights abuses and the destruction of nature from their supply chain.

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Com alguns avanços, COP16 conclui com desafios para a implementação do Marco Mundial sobre a Biodiversidade

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Con algunos avances, la COP16 concluye con desafíos para la implementación del Marco Mundial sobre la Biodiversidad

November 3, 2024

After some progress, COP16 ends with challenges for implementation of Global Biodiversity Framework

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