Press Releases & Media Infos

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  • Urgewald analysis: KENFO's fossil fuel investments have increased slightly
  • Management purports "reduction of carbon intensity"
  • Companies in KENFO’s portfolio have massive fossil fuel expansion plans 
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Local chiefs and Mozambique and international NGOs warn that current inquiries lack independence and fail to guarantee justice and protection for victims. They call for an investigation led by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as the only way to ensure a fair, impartial, safe and victim-centred process. The inquiry should also investigate members of the Joint Task force in charge of protecting the site of TotalEnergies Mozambique LNG Project.

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Civil society groups and experts in rights and public accountability have hit out at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for failing to meet international standards in its latest accountability policy. 

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The introduction of new naming guidelines for ESG funds by the EU supervisory authority ESMA on May 21 should finally provide more clarity for consumers. A new analysis by Finanzwende, Urgewald and Facing Finance shows that instead of making their portfolios more sustainable and dropping shares in fossil fuel companies, many providers have simply renamed their funds. 

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Vladimir Slivyak, one of Russia's most prominent environmentalists and winner of the Right Livelihood Award, has been classified as a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice. The reason given by the Russian authorities is that he spread “false information” about Russia's armed forces in the war in Ukraine.