Tell global leaders to stop the money fueling nature’s destruction

Every year, our government allows big banks to give billions to agriculture, mining and logging corporations which destroy forests and other ecosystems around the world. 

Add your name and demand that world governments ensures bring their international commitments to life. The time is now to defund nature’s destruction and fund its protection, restoration and renewal.

THE
PROBLEM

We’re living in a climate and biodiversity crisis.

Our world is on fire. Each year, more and more of Earth’s natural treasures — forests, savannahs, grasslands, wetlands — are destroyed to make way for industrial agriculture, beef, soy, palm oil, timber, paper and mining. A destruction driven by companies seeking ever higher profits. 

And governments are complicit: they continue to support these corporations in the service of endless economic growth at all costs. They benefit from a broken financial system that gives billions to the destruction of nature via loans, investments and subsidies.

Fire in the Jaci-Paraná Extractive Reserve, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state, Brazil. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace
Every year, Greenpeace Brazil flies over the Amazon to monitor deforestation build up and forest fires. One month after a presidential decree forbidding fires in the Amazon and Pantanal, Greenpeace flew over Amazonas and Rondônia states to verify how efficient the measure was. Even with the Fire Moratorium, we registered several live heat spots including this fire in the Jaci-Paraná Extractive Reserve, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

THE
SOLUTION

Since 2022, 196 nations have signed up to an ambitious new international agreement to stop nature destruction at the UN Biodiversity COP15. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commits these countries to ramp up their actions to protect nature, stop subsidizing nature destruction and reform the finance sector.

Now it’s time to turn these commitments into real political action.

Climate March in Amsterdam. © Tengbeh Kamara / Greenpeace
Over 15000 people gathered for the Climate March in Amsterdam’s ZuidAs ahead of the European Elections on June 6. Participants demand that banks such as Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro change their course and stop investing their money in deforestation, mining or pollution. © Tengbeh Kamara / Greenpeace

OUR DEMANDS

  • End public subsidies for industries that destroy nature, such as industrial livestock, logging, and mining.
  • Fund multinational programs that protect and restore nature.
  • Regulate the finance sector to ensure alignment with international climate and biodiversity commitments.
  • Strengthen and enforce existing legislation and adopt new legislative measures to implement targets from the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) without delays.
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