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BlackRock Responds to Demands for Stronger Climate Action with Bold New Commitments

The company still remains the largest investor in coal, oil, gas, and the companies driving deforestation

"This announcement is a major step in the right direction for BlackRock," said Moira Birss, Finance Campaign Director at Amazon Watch. However, It still leaves questions about how it plans to address the fact that it is the world's biggest investor in deforestation."

The Climate Movement Is Going After Wall Street

A new effort, Stop the Money Pipeline, aims to end the financing of fossil fuels

A coalition of some of the nation's leading climate, youth, and Indigenous organizations launched a major new mobilization, Stop the Money Pipeline, that will pressure banks, insurance companies and asset managers to stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation and start respecting human rights and Indigenous sovereignty.

Amazon Fires Wreak New Level of Havoc on Surroundings

Deforestation, climate change could transform much of region's rainforests into savanna ecosystem, says expert

"The Amazon fires were a global tragedy directly related to President Bolsonaro's anti-environmental rhetoric. We must keep the pressure on the Brazilian government to ensure the protection of the Amazon and its native peoples, who are on the front lines of defending the rainforest, and look inward to do our part in protecting our rainforests and planet for generations to come."

Top Scientists Warn of an Amazon “Tipping Point”

"The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we," Thomas Lovejoy of George Mason University and Carlos Nobre of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, both of whom have studied the world's largest rainforest for decades, wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Advances. "Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now."