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    Small Steps Made, Big Leaps Needed: JPMorgan Chase Reveals Policy Shifts

    World’s largest fossil financier responds following Indigenous-led bank advocacy against fossil fuel expansion in the Peruvian Amazon

    The changes fall far short of what is needed to prevent violations of Indigenous peoples' rights and to halt large scale destruction of critical ecosystems like the Amazon biome.

    December 19, 2025
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    Ecuador Rejects Militarization and Backs Call for Accountability

    President Noboa's defeat in the national referendum comes after weeks of mobilization and repression

    By rejecting Noboa’s militarized reforms, Ecuadorians chose solutions that protect life and dignity instead of policies based on repression.

    December 9, 2025
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    Ecuadorians Vote Down Noboa’s Extractive Agenda

    The results of a recent national referendum delivered a major victory for the Amazon

    This victory belongs to the people of Ecuador. It is a reminder that democratic power still matters, even in times of crisis. But it is also a beginning, not an end.

    November 20, 2025
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    JPMorgan Chase Quietly Adds Restrictions to Fossil Fuel Financing in the Amazon Rainforest

    At COP30, experts acknowledge this step and underscore the need for a policy that fully ends financing to oil and gas in the Amazon

    “Years of steadfast organizing under the leadership of Amazonian Indigenous peoples have successfully pressured JPMorgan, the world’s largest fossil financier, to take a crucial step towards recognizing Indigenous and human rights."

    November 13, 2025
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    Major River Mobilization from the Amazon Arrives at COP30

    More than 200 boats carrying Indigenous, riverine, and social movement leaders occupied Guajará Bay in a historic act for the Amazon and climate justice. Chief Raoni Metuktire reminded the world of a simple truth: “The forest lives because we are here. If they remove the people, the forest will die with them.”

    “The presence of Indigenous Peoples at COP30 is very important, but the struggle doesn’t end here."

    November 12, 2025
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    Indigenous Peoples Intercept Soy Barges on the Tapajós River

    “There can be no real climate solution while Amazonian rivers are treated merely as grain corridors and the peoples of the Tapajós continue to be denied their right to free, prior, and informed consent.”

    The peaceful protest was a powerful statement from Indigenous and traditional communities about the impacts of Brazil’s grain export corridors on rivers, fisheries, territories, and local livelihoods.

    November 7, 2025
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    The Fight Against Climate Change Is Also a Fight Against Organized Crime

    Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

    Open Global Rights | Belém can be remembered as a turning point – when the world stopped treating the Amazon as a victim and began dismantling the criminal economies driving its collapse.

    November 6, 2025
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    Endangered Amazonía

    This report, a collection of 22 articles from Indigenous organizations, researchers, journalists, and international organizations, shows forest degradation and fires have not only pushed the Amazon beyond previous estimates of proximity to its tipping point, but that human activity has driven the forest beyond where mere protection of what remains...

    November 2025
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    The Rainforest Spoke. Amazonian Legislators Listened.

    The Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Amazon call for a moratorium on new oil and mining projects – starting with Indigenous territories.

    In the face of inaction and paralysis of countries in making significant progress to address the climate crisis and its principal driver – fossil fuels – a worldwide coalition of legislative leaders has taken matters into their own hands, demonstrating what true climate leadership can look like.

    October 9, 2025
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    Ecuador and Oil: A Challenge for Democracy and the Amazon

    Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 930,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela

    El País | What is at stake is not only Ecuador’s Amazon. A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility.

    October 7, 2025
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    The Money Trail

    Behind fossil fuel expansion in Latin American and the Caribbean

    This report shines a spotlight on companies that are exploring and developing new fossil fuel reserves or building new fossil infrastructure, and it reveals which banks and investors are backing the expansion of this dirty and dangerous industry across Latin America and the Caribbean.

    September 2025
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    Ecuador’s Amazon Oil Plans Face Indigenous and Global Opposition

    Seven Indigenous nations denounce oil auctions amid state of emergency, as Amazon Watch warns of oil expansion plans and human rights risks during Climate Week in New York

    “Indigenous resistance, civil society mobilization, and growing international pressure will continue to expose these projects as illegitimate, unlawful, and unfinanceable.”

    September 25, 2025
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    California Lawmakers Seek to Curb Oil Imports from Amazon

    Associated Press | “Consuming oil from the Amazon is incompatible with climate leadership. As the world’s fourth-largest economy, California is sending a powerful market signal by examining its crude footprint and role in Amazon destruction.”

    August 27, 2025
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