Investigative Journalist @Global_Witness focused on forests and finance. Prev: @Newstatesman/@EnergyMonitorAI. she/her. @Jschofieldtrust fellow 2024
London, England
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Investigation for the @NewStatesman based off of FOI data reveals how Homes for Ukraine scheme failed to protect some vulnerable hosts & guests from safeguarding risks and homelessness... newstatesman.com/society/202…
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🌳 New @Global_Witness data shows Chinese banks have increased their forest-risk lending despite China's green commitments. From the Amazon to SE Asia, forests and their defenders are under threat. By @pollybindman & Beibei Yin.
globalwitness.org/en/campaig…
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Unless the Government change course, a presumption of anonymity will soon be granted to firearms officers involved in criminal proceedings.
JUSTICE & @NUJofficial wrote to the Home Secretary expressing deep concern over this – here’s why... justice.org.uk/presumption-o… 1/4
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My colleague @pollybindman and I partnered up with The Telegraph to expose how top banks, including HSBC, continue to funnel millions into meatpacking companies driving the destruction Paraguay's vital forest and home to the Ayoreo Totobiegosode Indigenous group. Read 🧵
🚨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 @Telegraph this morning, featuring comment from our Forests campaign lead @AlexHREID
gwitness.org/4gn0wTa
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🌎London remains a hub for some of the world’s most unethical financial actors. Over 💰 £1bn has been funnelled by 🇬🇧 financiers into companies linked to deforestation 🌱— despite #COP26 climate pledges. Investigation by @pollybindman for @Global_Witness
globalwitness.org/en/campaig…
Powerful investigation from @lilimendonca for @Global_Witness showing how Barclays earned $1.7bn from financing Brazilian meat giant JBS, while the company’s operations contributed to the invasion and destruction of an Indigenous territory in Brazil globalwitness.org/en/campaig…
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🌳🚨My latest with @pollybindman for @Global_Witness
BREAKING: JBS, a company notorious for its supply chain links to deforestation, biodiversity loss, corruption, and human rights violations is being bankrolled by the global financial system via 'sustainable' funds.
gwitness.org/3WwCk8J
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BREAKING 🚨
Our latest investigation found ADNOC sought $100B worth of oil deals while their CEO was president of the COP28 climate summit.
This is five times more than they sought the previous year.
thetimes.co.uk/article/abu-d…
This week I joined @Global_Witness as an investigator, where I’ll be reporting on the links between finance and deforestation. Really excited to get started - DM with stories/tips!
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Daily chart: G20 countries channeled over 3X as much public finance towards fossil fuels as to clean energy between 2020 and 2022 - using figures from @PriceofOil. Read the full story: bit.ly/3U9LpnZ
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Daily Chart using data from @InfluenceMap's #CarbonMajors database to show how just 10 single entities including bp and Shell are responsible for 40% of historic emissions, by @pollybindman. Full story: bit.ly/43OZQAU
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An Egyptian company is making up to $1 million a DAY by charging Palestinians to flee #Gaza.
Hala is the only way out of Gaza for most people, and has raised its prices 14-fold since the war began. news.sky.com/story/the-price…
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We often hear fossil fuel firms pushing higher oil & gas investment bc it's good for shareholder returns…
…but this @ieefa_institute analysis suggests fossil fuel stocks consistently underperform the market, across almost all time periods & geographies
ieefa.org/articles/financial…
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“Shell invested 4.7x as much in oil and gas as ‘renewables and energy solutions’, finds analysis from Common Wealth”.
Shell channelled 8.9x as much to shareholders as it invested in low-carbon.
@pollybindman on our latest analysis of Big Oil's results.
energymonitor.ai/finance/cor…
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“Three sets of companies dominate: the multinational fossil fuel giants; overseas companies, many of which are state-owned entities; and private equity-backed firms.”
@DantonsHead spoke to @pollybindman for @EnergyMonitorAI on who owns the North Sea.
energymonitor.ai/sectors/ind…
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The chancellor is misrepresenting the Climate Change Committee by saying their advice states the UK can open more oil and gas fields. Wrong! And scandalous to politicise them. See more context in my story here- theguardian.com/environment/…
"If he's wrong, is he a rat leaving a sinking ship?"
@BBCNickRobinson presses the Chancellor about the resignation of former energy minister Chris Skidmore over the issuing of new North Sea oil and gas licences.
Watch the exchange on #R4Today ⬇️
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Rishi Sunak has lost investor confidence, says the head of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association.
@pollybindman reports for @NS_Spotlight ⬇️ newstatesman.com/spotlight/s…
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How COP28 raised the profile of ‘super pollutants’ like black carbon - @pollybindman reports: energymonitor.ai/policy/inte…
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It’s been a horrible few days. My family in the Catholic Church in Gaza city are reporting white phosphorous and gunfire into their compound. The bin collector and the janitor have been shot and their bodies are laying outside and remain uncollected. 1/2
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Cop28’s final agreement commits to an energy transition away from fossil fuels – but not everyone is convinced.
@pollybindman and @nichferris report for @NS_Spotlight ⬇️ newstatesman.com/spotlight/s…
