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Does Indonesia’s storied anti-graft agency have a blind spot for corrupt land deals?
21.08.2018 Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission is perhaps the most trusted institution in a country plagued with graft. But the KPK, as it is known, has prosecuted only a handful of cases in the plantation sector
Are US investors aware of the legal risks of forest crimes?
12.07.2018 Climate Advisers examine the potential for investors in the US to be prosecuted for forest crimes that took place in other jurisdictions
How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources
07.07.2018 Corrupt sell-offs by politicians, often to raise money for political campaigns, are driving deforestation and land rights abuses
Illegal clearance under the guise of old projects, as opacity reigns in DRC
12.03.2018 While no major green-field projects are known to have broken ground, our research indicates that illegal clearance of natural forest is occurring under the guise of projects to re-develop abandoned plantations
Hypocrisy and friends in high places in the Republic of Congo
12.03.2018 In an extract from The Coming Storm report, we explore how The Republic of Congo government’s stated aims to reduce deforestation contrast starkly with what is happening on the ground
Luxury US yachts being supplied with suspect Burmese teak
19.10.2017 There is rampant illegality and corruption in the logging industry in Myanmar. So why do two US firms continue to import large quantities of teak?
Firms filmed exploiting peatland forest in West Kalimantan
29.08.2017 An Indonesian company and its Chinese partner pushed ahead with an industrial wood plantation, flouting a moratorium on the drainage and exploitation of lands
Illegal deforestation and the flawed focus on corporate voluntary actions
12.06.2017 Globally, the problem is getting worse, not better, and corporate zero deforestation commitments may actually be distracting attention from other actions that could have greater impacts
