Asian banks give billions to firms linked to deforestation, study finds

Mongabay
Feb 5, 2019, 1:56 pm263 pts
Industries that cause the loss of rainforest and peatlands in Southeast Asia were bankrolled to the tune of $62 billion between 2013 and 2018, according to new data released by the Forests and Finance campaign of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN). Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Malaysian banks were the…

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