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Global Witness and Both ENDS strongly condemn the reported of harassment and surveillance by the Armed Forces of the ...
Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...
For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition Ading Releno is a member of the ...
With the costs of climate change impacts rapidly rising, the billions pocketed by the fossil fuel industry is an insult to the communities worst hit by extreme weather. It’s time to make polluters pay ...
The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US law makers retreating from clean energy?
The renewable energy boom has triggered a new rush for resources, as countries race to secure their supply of transition minerals. But this push for clean technology could quickly turn dirty, unless ...
What have we learnt since Global Witness started reporting on the killings of land and environmental defenders ten years ago? At the international level there has been some progress made by ...
Joannah had tree sap running through her veins. She was a tree lover, a permaculture practitioner, a full-on environmentalist and conservationist, a mum and an earth mother. She had an ardent and ...
Paying with their lives As guardians of the forest, land and environmental defenders are on the frontline of the Amazon’s devastating exploitation. They face dangerous companies acting with impunity, ...
We at Global Witness would like to honour the crucial, courageous and often invisible work that land and environmental defenders do every day around the world. It is because of their determination ...