Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

Mongabay
Jun 15, 2021, 4:03 pm242 pts
The world’s 50 largest financial institutions increased their investments in deforestation-linked commodity companies by more than $8 billion since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has found. The research, published last week by Forests & Finance, a coalition of non-governmental…

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