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Alex Reid

@alexhreid

I lead the deforestation, nature and finance team at @Global_Witness (mat cover). MA, BA @WarStudies. Former @RUSI_org.

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🚨BREAKING: Our latest investigation shows how HSBC is helping drive deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, one of Earth’s key #biodiversity hotspots 🌍 Our work in the The Telegraph this morning, featuring comment from our Forests campaign lead Alex Reid gwitness.org/4gn0wTa

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🍃The good news? Banks have finally woken up to the #nature crisis, with record numbers of shareholder resolutions on #biodiversity filed this year. 🔥The bad news? Finance giants like BlackRock and @Vanguard, are blocking action on these issues… gwitness.org/4il6UMT

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Good news: finance has finally woken up to the #nature crisis, with record numbers of shareholder resolutions on #biodiversity filed this year. Bad news? Not a single one analysed by Polly Bindman passed. Analysis by Polly Bindman, via Genevieve Redgrave: environmental-finance.com/content/news/b…

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🌳 Join us to end the UK's role in deforestation! We're hiring a consultant campaigner (2 days/week) to get deforestation-linked products off UK shelves, stop destructive financial deals 💸and protect communities + ecosystems✊🗓 Apply by 27 January: globalwitness.org/en/jobs/forest…

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Who will world leaders stand with as #COP16 resumes? 🌍 With corporate lobbyists at last year’s summit at an all-time high, SUMAÚMA Journalism asks if leaders will defend people and nature, over the industries profiting from #deforestation🌳💰 gwitness.org/4hWyPlg

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Economic growth and climate action go hand in hand 🤝 Last year, net zero sectors such as renewables, electric cars and heat pumps grew three times faster than the overall economy. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Labour’s planting a “new forest” 🌳 but Global Witness just showed UK supply chains drove global forest loss over 5x the size of the new project in 2024 alone. Planting trees is great. Stopping deforestation imports too is even better, Mary Creagh CBE MP: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…

EJ Milner-Gulland (@ejmilnergulland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Super PhD opportunity with funding for either a UK or an overseas student, on the impact of governance and management structures on #conservation and community outcomes in #Cameroon. There must be some amazing applicants out there, please spread the word! kent.ac.uk/durrell-instit…

Super PhD opportunity with funding for either a UK or an overseas student, on the impact of governance and management structures on #conservation and community outcomes in #Cameroon. There must be some amazing applicants out there, please spread the word! kent.ac.uk/durrell-instit…
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Reportagem de hoje na BBC News Brasil mostra como o território das onças-pintadas vem sendo eliminado. Mesmo em uma área criada para protegê-las houve mais de 400 infrações ambientais nos últimos anos, segundo nosso levantamento nos dados do ICMBio. bbc.com/portuguese/art…

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Jaguars are losing the fight to Big Agribusiness Industrial agriculture, especially cattle ranching, is accelerating biodiversity loss in Brazil – endangering species such as the jaguar and undermining global climate goals. gwitness.org/44sUM7K

Jaguars are losing the fight to Big Agribusiness  

Industrial agriculture, especially cattle ranching, is accelerating biodiversity loss in Brazil – endangering species such as the jaguar and undermining global climate goals.  

gwitness.org/44sUM7K
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🚨 Santander helped raise $1.3bn for Cresud, responsible for 170,000 ha of deforestation including in Argentina's #GranChaco. Our Global Witness story for Forbes covered by Dave Vetter: forbes.com/sites/davidrve…

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Chinese banks have poured $23B+ into forest-risk companies since 2018. They've become some of the top international lenders to the global agribusiness sector, yet mostly lack #deforestation policies to stop cash falling into the hands of deforesters: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…

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📏 Imagine a forest the size of Austria. That’s how much climate-critical forest the EU anti-deforestation law (EUDR) could save in the next 10 years – if it’s properly enforced. gwitness.org/4kHvGY2 #Together4Forests #EUDR #ClimateJustice

Peers for the Planet (@peers4planet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over the past week(s) Peers in the House of Lords busily questioned govt on: 🍼🌊Plastic Pollution, damaging our land and oceans ⚓️⛏️Deep sea bed mining, wrecking habitats we know little about 🌴🎋Ending the link between supply chains and deforestation peersfortheplanet.org/post/peers-cal…

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🌿 REGISTER NOW: Natural Renewal – Labour’s Case for Nature, hosted with Aviva plc. This event brings together MPs, businesses, NGOs and finance leaders to explore how the private sector can help drive nature recovery. 🔗 Register: lu.ma/rcijgjje

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🗣️ “Nothing short of an abject failure of our global financial system.” 💬 What does it say about our financial system when a company linked to Amazon #deforestation, Indigenous land invasions, and corruption is approved to trade on the New York Stock Exchange – the biggest

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How much is your bank profiting from deforestation? Our new analysis reveals how efforts to end deforestation are undermined by climate-wrecking profits of US, EU and UK financial institutions. Read the report: gwitness.org/4mWOWkQ We wrote to all the financial

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Without rules to curb deforestation finance, the #TFFF could end up insuring the same banks that profit from forest loss - letting them play both sides of the market. @GlobalWitness shows they’ve already made $26 bn from forest destruction since Paris: 🔗globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…