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We have confronted major financiers directly, loudly and consistently and made them acknowledge their crucial role in our collective crisis.
Our analysis has shown that just since financial sector going into companies responsible for deforestation and rights violations.
This work has already resulted in loans in excess of $ cancelled as a reaction to RAN campaigns.
We work directly with local activists and communities literally fighting to defend their ancestral lands and forests.
People whose farms have been stolen and watched their local forests bulldozed all in the name of corporate greed.
Just three years ago, the three major Japanese banks had no policies on forests.
And now after RAN’s campaigning, we’ve secured major new policies by all three Japanese ‘megabanks’ banks — MUFG, Mizuho, and Sumitomo.
a redesigned user-friendly interface, holding five launch webinars in six languages.
We scour financial sector databases, media reports and financial reports of companies to determine where the money behind deforestation is coming from.
We compile that data and we make it publicly available for activists and campaigners around the world to use.
And we devise strategies to target those banks to expose what they’re doing, and to get them to change their practices.
Covering from updated investor data but also includes extended policy assessments of more than 50 financial institutions.
One of the many facts revealed in this new data is that, over the past year, forest-risk commodity investments have risen from $ billion to $45.3 billion (April 2020 - April 2021).
In addition to these investments, the site tracks $ and underwriting for deforestation-linked commodities.
The site also attributes a forest protection score to institutions — a ranking of the strength of internal bank or investment policies to prevent rampant forest destruction.
Forests and peatlands sustain watersheds, mitigate rising sea level disasters, nurture biodiversity, and — critically — absorb and sequester carbon, just to name few benefits.
That’s why RAN has launched a game-changing new campaign to track the ‘forest footprint’ of banks and brands.
The forest footprint is the full accounting of how a corporation has already impacted and could impact forests and communities through past activities and potential future expansion of industrial logging and agriculture.
The report calls on destruction of rainforests and the violation of human rights to disclose their forest footprints.
We are also calling on these institutions to outline strategic interventions to prevent further deforestation and rights violations.
brands Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrero, Kao, Mondeléz, Nissin Foods, and Procter & Gamble.
All received the lowest ranking of an ‘F’ grade.
However, half-measures are not sufficient to meet our crisis.
candy giant to take concrete action to clean up its palm oil and forest commodity supply chains.
In October of known household brands complicit in the destruction of over 700,000 hectares — roughly the size of 1,750,000 football fields — of tropical rainforests in the Indonesian provinces of North and East Kalimantan due to their sourcing from palm oil, pulp, and forestry companies operating in the regions.
This effort is urgent as we must secure and expand Indigenous communities’ legal rights to their land, rather than hand the land over to corporations for forestry, commodity production or fossil fuel extraction.
and financial players on the globe, RAN relies on several key factors to make an impact: our credibility, our voice, and — most importantly — our supporters.
Our campaigns target institutions that spend billions of dollars each year cultivating their brand images with carefully choreographed public relations and saturating ad campaigns.
They understand the power of controlling the narrative and steering the story.
To confront this constant onslaught, RAN undertakes strategically targeted investigations, meticulous research and analysis, and well crafted messaging across traditional and social media platforms.
We produce exposé-style pieces that name our targets and create reputational risk and brand damage by publicly revealing their complicity in driving ills such as our climate crisis or Indigenous rights violations — all in the name of corporate profits.
But all of this work would have much less impact without our traditional media and social media presence and the amplification from our network.
Sometimes that means months of behind the scenes work to place highly researched articles in global media outlets; sometimes that means pitching Op-Eds on flashpoint issues; sometimes that means creating eye-catching graphics that fit into our carefully crafted social media campaigns.
Whether through major news outlets, Instagram or email, we rely on informing the public and inspiring our supporters to increase positive, peaceful action — online or in the streets — in the fight for people and planet over corporate greed.
Since 1993, RAN’s Community Action Grants program has distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.
our climate and upholding human rights — this is a core principle at Rainforest Action Network.
For nearly grants to Indigenous and grassroots organizations that are working on the frontlines of the battle to save our planet.
responsive to evolving needs to stand in solidarity and provide direct support to Indigenous and frontline communities across the globe disproportionately impacted by the compounding effects of a deadly pandemic, corporate resource plundering, and increasingly destructive and frequent fires and natural disasters.
We increased the dollar amounts for some of our grants, provided critical mutual aid, and released rapid funds for Indigenous communities that despite the pandemic continued their fights on the frontlines against unwanted extractive industry projects on their territories, while also continuing to scale up and implement their own visions and solutions.
Since distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.
Protect an Acre grants support grassroots leadership and local organizations in forest regions to protect threatened forest lands and to protect the human rights of communities that have coexisted with and depended on these regions for generations.
These grants are critical to help local efforts to regain control of and sustainably manage traditional territories.
critical actions from forming fire brigades to directly put out fires, to confronting and stopping illegal deforestation on their territories, to organizing peaceful mass mobilizations, and implementing sustainable economic alternative models.
Climate Action Fund grants support frontline communities directly challenging the damage caused by the fossil fuel industry.
These small grants go to local groups tackling the root causes of climate change — the extraction and combustion of dirty fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
world’s rainforests and the best organizers against climate change.
Local and Indigenous communities have been defending their forests, protecting the biodiversity on their lands, and slowing the effects of climate change for years.
It is imperative that we continue to support them in the fight.
Protect-an-Acre (PAA) Highlights Articulação Nacional das Mulheres Guerreiras da Ancestralidade (ANMIGA) and Mujeres Amazonicas $in the 2nd Indigenous Women’s March in Brasilia to mobilize against the attacks on Indigenous land rights that are being pushed through Congress and the judiciary in Brazil.
Cabildo Siona de Buenavista $defend their rights and fortify their community land patrols to defend their territory against illegal incursions by extractive interests and armed actors.
Kelompok Studi dan Pengembangan Prakarsa Masyarakat (KSPPM) $the Lake Toba region in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, impacted by Toba Pulp Lestari – a notorious company which stole their land.
The communities, including the Pargamanan Bintang Maria-Parlilitan community, are being supported with documentation, including mapping and aerial photos of forest cover in their customary areas, as well as through networking and advocacy work as part of a multi-year effort to secure land rights to more than communities.
Nación Sapara del Ecuador (NASE) $systems in 2 Sapara communities in their territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon covering an area of over 500,000 acres of intact roadless rainforest that has been defended from oil development.
The first phase of the project was supported by Fundación Kara Solar in help address the Covid crisis and support territorial defense initiatives, with this phase expanding to additional communities and run by trained Sapara technicians.
Highlights Giniw Collective $women-led to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, through trainings, community outreach and education, mobilizations and relationship building within the broader movement.
The collective has been working to protect treaty rights of the Anishinaabe, as well as sacred wild rice and other food sources, medicine, diverse ecosystems, and wetlands and lakes throughout the territories.
Native Organizers Alliance $the summer, a Native-led coast-to-coast totem pole journey with ceremony that stopped in sacred places endangered by fracking, mining, dams, oil and gas transport, and other extractive industries.
Diana Stark Diane Israel & Lindsey Hansen-Sturm Dianne Marsh Dirk Hain Don & Tam Dickerson Dr. Beth Eichenberger Dr. James & Barbara Syverud Drs.
of RAN, because RAN’s staff work so passionately and effectively on the issues of climate change and deforestation.
LASTING Impact CIRCLE RAN’s Lasting Impact Circle recognizes those individuals who have included Rainforest Action Network in their long term charitable plans, contributing to a legacy that will protect our climate, keep forests standing, and uphold human rights.
By joining the Lasting Impact Circle, you join a community bound in a vision of a just, renewable future.
And your vision for a better tomorrow will be honored through our continued work for people and planet.
To learn more, contact Emily Selzer at emily@ran.org.
RAN’s complete independent financial audit is available at RAN.org.
by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.
2021 was certainly another year of change and growth for the Clean Water Program.
We wish them well in their new roles.
Looking into Coordinator and a new Salt Watch Manager to spearhead our expanding programming.
Thank you for weathering the storms with us as we have gotten through lockdowns and social distancing.
Our dedicated partners and volunteers have truly stepped up to help us maintain our data collection - and momentum - to protect and improve water quality across the country.
The Izaak Walton League, founded in conserve, restore, and promote the sustainable use and enjoyment of our natural resources, including soil, air, woods, waters, and wildlife.
Save Our Streams - to improve water quality and engage volunteers in water quality issues.
Those watching including existing League members and volunteers, but we also expanded our audience to include many new people unfamiliar with the League.
Salt Watchers who go above and beyond with their efforts can be nominated by their peers and awarded the "Salt Watcher of the Month" title by Clean Water Program Staff.
Our first Salt Watchers of the Month at the end of were Geoffrey Selling (and his partner Chrissa Pedersen) from PA, Karl Van Neste from MD, and Kelly Reyer from WI.
Salt Watchers are also asked to "pledge" to be a part of Salt Watch when they request their kit.
With over organizations, we depend on groups to pick up the Salt Watch program.
Check out the above map to see more of our key partners across the country, from government agencies to school groups.
of America Endowment, Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund, and many individual donors that make Salt Watch a success.
In the previous season, distributing over 2600 Salt Watch Kits and pulling in about 3100 Salt Watch readings.
This winter was less mild than the chloride readings over 100 ppm - meaning we are seeing elevated chloride levels across the country.
To view past years' Salt Watch results, visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults and scroll down to view past season maps.
Staff can barely keep up with the influx of data, but we are loving it.
This increased winter precipitation has resulted in extremely high chloride levels across the country (and thus, more red dots on the map shown below).
These spikes have even garnered media attention in areas like the Philly metro region and Connecticut.
To read these articles and more, visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults and scroll down to see news articles.
To view this season's Salt Watch Map (updated weekly), visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults.
This year was our first being funded for a focused Salt Watch program in one community with Gaithersburg Salt Watch.
It has been a great opportunity for us to see what it takes to turn the tide around salt use at the community level.
Staff has participated in community events, like farmers markets and a holiday Jingle Jubilee, giving out Salt Watch kits and information about chloride runoff to community members.
Over have gone out to school groups and residents in Gaithersburg.
The Clean Water Hub had even more development and growth in adding numerous monitoring sites, readings, organizations, and members contributing data.
Now, if the most recent data submitted to a site is older than a year old, the pins displayed will be grey.
If the data is new, the pins will be purple.
This helps users quickly identify which sites have new information vs. legacy data.
While we encountered ongoing challenges to hosting field trainings in program.
In the second year of virtual training, online certification process and 72 people completed the online certification.
They are now ready to attend a field session to complete their certification this spring.
were able to host monitors in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
2021 was a great year for VASOS data collection.

We have confronted major financiers directly, loudly and consistently and made them acknowledge their crucial role in our collective crisis.

Our analysis has shown that just since financial sector going into companies responsible for deforestation and rights violations.

This work has already resulted in loans in excess of $ cancelled as a reaction to RAN campaigns.

We work directly with local activists and communities literally fighting to defend their ancestral lands and forests.

People whose farms have been stolen and watched their local forests bulldozed all in the name of corporate greed.

Just three years ago, the three major Japanese banks had no policies on forests.

And now after RAN’s campaigning, we’ve secured major new policies by all three Japanese ‘megabanks’ banks — MUFG, Mizuho, and Sumitomo.

a redesigned user-friendly interface, holding five launch webinars in six languages.

We scour financial sector databases, media reports and financial reports of companies to determine where the money behind deforestation is coming from.

We compile that data and we make it publicly available for activists and campaigners around the world to use.

And we devise strategies to target those banks to expose what they’re doing, and to get them to change their practices.

Covering from updated investor data but also includes extended policy assessments of more than 50 financial institutions.

One of the many facts revealed in this new data is that, over the past year, forest-risk commodity investments have risen from $ billion to $45.3 billion (April 2020 - April 2021).

In addition to these investments, the site tracks $ and underwriting for deforestation-linked commodities.

The site also attributes a forest protection score to institutions — a ranking of the strength of internal bank or investment policies to prevent rampant forest destruction.

Forests and peatlands sustain watersheds, mitigate rising sea level disasters, nurture biodiversity, and — critically — absorb and sequester carbon, just to name few benefits.

That’s why RAN has launched a game-changing new campaign to track the ‘forest footprint’ of banks and brands.

The forest footprint is the full accounting of how a corporation has already impacted and could impact forests and communities through past activities and potential future expansion of industrial logging and agriculture.

The report calls on destruction of rainforests and the violation of human rights to disclose their forest footprints.

We are also calling on these institutions to outline strategic interventions to prevent further deforestation and rights violations.

brands Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrero, Kao, Mondeléz, Nissin Foods, and Procter & Gamble.

All received the lowest ranking of an ‘F’ grade.

However, half-measures are not sufficient to meet our crisis.

candy giant to take concrete action to clean up its palm oil and forest commodity supply chains.

In October of known household brands complicit in the destruction of over 700,000 hectares — roughly the size of 1,750,000 football fields — of tropical rainforests in the Indonesian provinces of North and East Kalimantan due to their sourcing from palm oil, pulp, and forestry companies operating in the regions.

This effort is urgent as we must secure and expand Indigenous communities’ legal rights to their land, rather than hand the land over to corporations for forestry, commodity production or fossil fuel extraction.

and financial players on the globe, RAN relies on several key factors to make an impact: our credibility, our voice, and — most importantly — our supporters.

Our campaigns target institutions that spend billions of dollars each year cultivating their brand images with carefully choreographed public relations and saturating ad campaigns.

They understand the power of controlling the narrative and steering the story.

To confront this constant onslaught, RAN undertakes strategically targeted investigations, meticulous research and analysis, and well crafted messaging across traditional and social media platforms.

We produce exposé-style pieces that name our targets and create reputational risk and brand damage by publicly revealing their complicity in driving ills such as our climate crisis or Indigenous rights violations — all in the name of corporate profits.

But all of this work would have much less impact without our traditional media and social media presence and the amplification from our network.

Sometimes that means months of behind the scenes work to place highly researched articles in global media outlets; sometimes that means pitching Op-Eds on flashpoint issues; sometimes that means creating eye-catching graphics that fit into our carefully crafted social media campaigns.

Whether through major news outlets, Instagram or email, we rely on informing the public and inspiring our supporters to increase positive, peaceful action — online or in the streets — in the fight for people and planet over corporate greed.

Since 1993, RAN’s Community Action Grants program has distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.

our climate and upholding human rights — this is a core principle at Rainforest Action Network.

For nearly grants to Indigenous and grassroots organizations that are working on the frontlines of the battle to save our planet.

responsive to evolving needs to stand in solidarity and provide direct support to Indigenous and frontline communities across the globe disproportionately impacted by the compounding effects of a deadly pandemic, corporate resource plundering, and increasingly destructive and frequent fires and natural disasters.

We increased the dollar amounts for some of our grants, provided critical mutual aid, and released rapid funds for Indigenous communities that despite the pandemic continued their fights on the frontlines against unwanted extractive industry projects on their territories, while also continuing to scale up and implement their own visions and solutions.

Since distributed more than 5.5 million dollars through over 1,000 grants to frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world and helping to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground.

Protect an Acre grants support grassroots leadership and local organizations in forest regions to protect threatened forest lands and to protect the human rights of communities that have coexisted with and depended on these regions for generations.

These grants are critical to help local efforts to regain control of and sustainably manage traditional territories.

critical actions from forming fire brigades to directly put out fires, to confronting and stopping illegal deforestation on their territories, to organizing peaceful mass mobilizations, and implementing sustainable economic alternative models.

Climate Action Fund grants support frontline communities directly challenging the damage caused by the fossil fuel industry.

These small grants go to local groups tackling the root causes of climate change — the extraction and combustion of dirty fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

world’s rainforests and the best organizers against climate change.

Local and Indigenous communities have been defending their forests, protecting the biodiversity on their lands, and slowing the effects of climate change for years.

It is imperative that we continue to support them in the fight.

Protect-an-Acre (PAA) Highlights Articulação Nacional das Mulheres Guerreiras da Ancestralidade (ANMIGA) and Mujeres Amazonicas $in the 2nd Indigenous Women’s March in Brasilia to mobilize against the attacks on Indigenous land rights that are being pushed through Congress and the judiciary in Brazil.

Cabildo Siona de Buenavista $defend their rights and fortify their community land patrols to defend their territory against illegal incursions by extractive interests and armed actors.

Kelompok Studi dan Pengembangan Prakarsa Masyarakat (KSPPM) $the Lake Toba region in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, impacted by Toba Pulp Lestari – a notorious company which stole their land.

The communities, including the Pargamanan Bintang Maria-Parlilitan community, are being supported with documentation, including mapping and aerial photos of forest cover in their customary areas, as well as through networking and advocacy work as part of a multi-year effort to secure land rights to more than communities.

Nación Sapara del Ecuador (NASE) $systems in 2 Sapara communities in their territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon covering an area of over 500,000 acres of intact roadless rainforest that has been defended from oil development.

The first phase of the project was supported by Fundación Kara Solar in help address the Covid crisis and support territorial defense initiatives, with this phase expanding to additional communities and run by trained Sapara technicians.

Highlights Giniw Collective $women-led to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, through trainings, community outreach and education, mobilizations and relationship building within the broader movement.

The collective has been working to protect treaty rights of the Anishinaabe, as well as sacred wild rice and other food sources, medicine, diverse ecosystems, and wetlands and lakes throughout the territories.

Native Organizers Alliance $the summer, a Native-led coast-to-coast totem pole journey with ceremony that stopped in sacred places endangered by fracking, mining, dams, oil and gas transport, and other extractive industries.

Diana Stark Diane Israel & Lindsey Hansen-Sturm Dianne Marsh Dirk Hain Don & Tam Dickerson Dr. Beth Eichenberger Dr. James & Barbara Syverud Drs.

of RAN, because RAN’s staff work so passionately and effectively on the issues of climate change and deforestation.

LASTING Impact CIRCLE RAN’s Lasting Impact Circle recognizes those individuals who have included Rainforest Action Network in their long term charitable plans, contributing to a legacy that will protect our climate, keep forests standing, and uphold human rights.

By joining the Lasting Impact Circle, you join a community bound in a vision of a just, renewable future.

And your vision for a better tomorrow will be honored through our continued work for people and planet.

To learn more, contact Emily Selzer at emily@ran.org.

RAN’s complete independent financial audit is available at RAN.org.

by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

2021 was certainly another year of change and growth for the Clean Water Program.

We wish them well in their new roles.

Looking into Coordinator and a new Salt Watch Manager to spearhead our expanding programming.

Thank you for weathering the storms with us as we have gotten through lockdowns and social distancing.

Our dedicated partners and volunteers have truly stepped up to help us maintain our data collection - and momentum - to protect and improve water quality across the country.

The Izaak Walton League, founded in conserve, restore, and promote the sustainable use and enjoyment of our natural resources, including soil, air, woods, waters, and wildlife.

Save Our Streams - to improve water quality and engage volunteers in water quality issues.

Those watching including existing League members and volunteers, but we also expanded our audience to include many new people unfamiliar with the League.

Salt Watchers who go above and beyond with their efforts can be nominated by their peers and awarded the "Salt Watcher of the Month" title by Clean Water Program Staff.

Our first Salt Watchers of the Month at the end of were Geoffrey Selling (and his partner Chrissa Pedersen) from PA, Karl Van Neste from MD, and Kelly Reyer from WI.

Salt Watchers are also asked to "pledge" to be a part of Salt Watch when they request their kit.

With over organizations, we depend on groups to pick up the Salt Watch program.

Check out the above map to see more of our key partners across the country, from government agencies to school groups.

of America Endowment, Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund, and many individual donors that make Salt Watch a success.

In the previous season, distributing over 2600 Salt Watch Kits and pulling in about 3100 Salt Watch readings.

This winter was less mild than the chloride readings over 100 ppm - meaning we are seeing elevated chloride levels across the country.

To view past years' Salt Watch results, visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults and scroll down to view past season maps.

Staff can barely keep up with the influx of data, but we are loving it.

This increased winter precipitation has resulted in extremely high chloride levels across the country (and thus, more red dots on the map shown below).

These spikes have even garnered media attention in areas like the Philly metro region and Connecticut.

To read these articles and more, visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults and scroll down to see news articles.

To view this season's Salt Watch Map (updated weekly), visit www.iwla.org/saltwatchresults.

This year was our first being funded for a focused Salt Watch program in one community with Gaithersburg Salt Watch.

It has been a great opportunity for us to see what it takes to turn the tide around salt use at the community level.

Staff has participated in community events, like farmers markets and a holiday Jingle Jubilee, giving out Salt Watch kits and information about chloride runoff to community members.

Over have gone out to school groups and residents in Gaithersburg.

The Clean Water Hub had even more development and growth in adding numerous monitoring sites, readings, organizations, and members contributing data.

Now, if the most recent data submitted to a site is older than a year old, the pins displayed will be grey.

If the data is new, the pins will be purple.

This helps users quickly identify which sites have new information vs. legacy data.

While we encountered ongoing challenges to hosting field trainings in program.

In the second year of virtual training, online certification process and 72 people completed the online certification.

They are now ready to attend a field session to complete their certification this spring.

were able to host monitors in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

2021 was a great year for VASOS data collection.