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BlackRock’s CEO Fiddles While the Amazon Burns

Blog BlackRock's CEO Fiddles While the Amazon Burns We can't allow asset managers to keep profiting from the Amazon crisis September 24, 2019

Press Release Brazilians and U.S. Allies Deliver Petition to BlackRock Urging It to Act for the Amazon "BlackRock is a powerful economic actor that provides significant financing for the expansion of agribusiness. Protests that raise... September 24, 2019

Press Release Response to Investor Statement on Amazon Deforestation and Fires 230 institutional investors from 30 different countries release joint statement calling for urgent action to protect the Amazon September 19, 2019

We Made Our Voices Heard All Over the World – and We’re Just Getting Started!

Video Blog We Made Our Voices Heard All Over the World – and We're Just Getting Started! Yesterday, demonstrators filled the streets for the Global Day of Action for the Amazon outside of Brazilian embassies... September 6, 2019

Press Release Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World's Forests Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon"The... August 30, 2019

Press Release As the Amazon Burns, BlackRock Named As World's Largest Investor in Deforestation "The fires currently raging in the Amazon clearly demonstrate the risk that agribusiness expansion poses for the Amazon... August 30, 2019

News A Trump-Bolsonaro Free-Trade Agreement Is an Apocalyptically Bad Idea Op-ed by Andrew Miller of Amazon Watch August 9, 2019

Investor Eye on the Amazon – Summer 2019

Report Summer 2019 Investor Eye on the Amazon A primer for shareholders concerned about rainforest protection and human rights July 3, 2019

More Pathetic Excuses from BlackRock’s CEO

Blog More Pathetic Excuses from BlackRock’s CEO The "conscience of Wall Street" passes the buck on climate action June 3, 2019

Wall Street’s Sustainable Darling Is Profiting from Climate Change

News Wall Street’s Sustainable Darling Is Profiting from Climate Change The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has millions of dollars invested in fossil fuels despite claiming to be... May 24, 2019

News Report Accuses Companies of Aiding Amazon Destruction From asset manager BlackRock to agribusiness giant Bunge, researchers have cited a host of the world's most powerful... April 25, 2019

Press Release New Report: European and North American Companies Support Soy, Cattle, and Timber Companies Responsible for Recent Surge in Amazon Deforestation A new report from Amazon Watch shows for the first time how firms that fuel the destruction of... April 25, 2019

Complicity in Destruction II

Report Complicity in Destruction II As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon provides 20% of our oxygen, houses 10% of the planet's biodiversity,... April 25, 2019

Amazon in Focus 2019 / 2017-2018 Annual Report

Report Amazon in Focus 2019 / 2017-2018 Annual Report Protecting and restoring the Amazon, indigenous rights, and the climate, requires greater unity across movements. Accomplishing the required... April 22, 2019

Connecting the Dots on the Financing of Climate Chaos

Blog Connecting the Dots on the Financing of Climate Chaos Thirty-three of the world's biggest banks have poured a whopping $1.9 trillion into fossil fuels since 2016, and... March 21, 2019

Brazil’s New President Threatens “the Lungs of the Planet”

News Brazil’s New President Threatens “the Lungs of the Planet” If there is hope for the rainforest, and for countries where authoritarians threaten democracy and progressive agendas, it... March 19, 2019

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