World's top finance firms continue to fuel deforestation, report warns

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Banks have pumped US$267 billion into forest-risk commodity firms since the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate in 2015. Read more at straitstimes.com.

LONDON - The world’s largest financial institutions increased their backing of companies in the agriculture, forestry and land use sectors most responsible for deforestation in 2021, a new study showed on Tuesday.

The analysis comes ahead of the next round of global climate talks in November at which protection of rainforests and other climate-crucial biodiversity are set to be a central theme. “The world’s financial institutions are actually increasing their lending to the very industries driving humanity to the brink,” Tom Picken, director of Rainforest Action Network’s Forest and Finance Campaign, said in a statement, citing “dangerously inadequate” policies.

In Indonesia, for example, South-east Asian pulp and paper producers are continuing to expand production,while in Brazil, the beef industry has contributed to 80 per cent of the Amazon deforestation since 1985, the report said.

 

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