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Blood-stained birch: Exposing the EU trade in Russian conflict ply

29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn

Earthsight files complaints against 31 EU firms following confirmation of Russian wood use by their birch ply suppliers

16.04.2024 Earthsight has filed EUTR complaints pertaining to 31 firms across nine member states whose suppliers were confirmed by the EU to be using Russian wood

Ikea, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more

06.09.2021 Swedish retail giant and green timber label have moved to address problem of illegal sanitary felling in eastern Russia, but their measures must go further

Impunity for German car giants assured after ethical supply chain law gutted

23.02.2021 German Cabinet set to approve “toothless” law that fails forests and indigenous peoples


Barclays, HSBC among banks financing “most harmful agribusinesses” with $44bn

16.10.2019 Global Witness report claims more than 300 financial institutions funnelled money into global beef, leather, palm oil and rubber firms linked to deforestation

Australian banks urged to ‘cut ties’ with palm oil firms as $6.4bn investments revealed

17.07.2019 Friends of the Earth report says that in financing the likes of Wilmar and Olam, banks are complicit in illegal deforestation

Malaysian politician under fire for suspect oil palm deal near UNESCO site that led to alleged illegal deforestation

13.05.2019 Sarawak Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud is accused of granting favourable leases to firm which later allegedly carried out illegal deforestation of timber

Major US pension fund invested in illegal deforestation

16.05.2017 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, which manages funds for more than five million people, held $172m in Southeast Asian palm oil firms as of March

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