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For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...
As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...
Global Witness has strongly condemned the move by the UK government to proscribe as a terrorist organisation the protest ...
Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their ...
The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US law makers retreating ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...
With climate change impacts steadily rising, the billions pocketed by fossil fuels is an insult to the communities worst hit. It's time to make polluters pay ...
The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US lawmakers retreating from clean energy? Recent events in Israel and Iran show once again our ...
The mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...
While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...
The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...
Key findings Industrial rubber plantations across west and central Africa linked to almost 520km2 of deforestation since 2000 – an area 16 times the size of Brussels – suggests new Global Witness ...