Investigations and advocacy for climate justice & civic freedoms
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Global Witness annual reports
Today our mission of protecting the planet’s vital resources remains as critical as ever, but our ambition has grown. Find out about our impacts from the past 12 months, how our work is evolving and our plans for the future.
Road to COP30 - Global Witness
In the run up to the 30th UN Climate Summit (COP30) in 2025, Global Witness is accelerating our work to put communities, land and environmental defenders and civil society at the heart of climate-decision making Read more
About us - Global Witness
We alert the world to ‘blood diamonds’ fuelling civil war in Angola and across Africa, thrusting the practices of the global diamond industry into the spotlight. The campaign leads to the establishment of the precedent-setting Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme and to Global Witness being co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
Annual report 2022: Rising to the challenge of a world in crisis
Oct 6, 2023 · Energy crises. As the summer was closing, energy prices leaping and inflation ballooning, it dawned on us that the world’s biggest polluters – oil and gas firms cooking the planet with their products and funding the devastation of Ukraine – were about to take centre stage in a third, related, global crisis.
Annual Report 2019: Protecting People and Planet - Global …
$44 billion - the amount which 300+ banks and investors including household names pumped into six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses, linked to devastating rainforest destruction.. $4.9 trillion - how much the oil and gas industry is set to spend over ten years on exploration and extraction of fossil fuels our planet can’t afford to burn.. …
Almost 2,000 land and environmental defenders killed between …
13th September 2023, London – At least 177 land and environmental defenders were killed last year for trying to protect the planet – one person every other day - according to a new report by Global Witness released today, working in collaboration with our partners globally. The new figures bring the total number of defender killings up to 1,910 between 2012 and 2022.
United States - Global Witness
Global Witness has had an office in Washington, D.C. for over 15 years. We are campaigning for the US government to: - Curb corruption and conflicts of interest in political decision-making - Root out the influence of money in politics - Bring transparency and accountability to the US oil and gas industry at home and abroad - Put the public interest ahead of polluting industries
Annual report 2020: time for a climate revolution - Global Witness
All over the world, the industries reliant on exploiting the planet – from logging companies to Big Oil and the financial institutions that bankroll them – are using a range of distraction techniques to delay or prevent the kind of action we need to stop the worst impacts of climate breakdown: the droughts, the flooding, the wildfires, the transformation of thriving land into desert.
Annual report 2021: our case for change | Global Witness
Aug 17, 2022 · In June, we held a two day global event, entitled Time for a Climate Revolution, which featured 27 speakers from across six continents, including US, UK, India, Chile, Uganda and Nigeria, sharing their campaigning experiences and asks for global leaders. It drew attendees from 32 countries and our wider content reached 4 million people. We are committed to doing more of this, doing it better ...