Rainforest Action Network (RAN) campaigns to protect the Earth’s rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants. RAN identifies the causes and consequences of rainforest destruction, advocates for permanent solutions and mobilizes consumers, retailers, manufacturers and financiers to change business-as-usual practices. Since 1985, RAN has won landmark environmental victories with on-the-ground results for forests and forest-based communities worldwide.

RAN and its coalition partners have compelled more than 400 companies to adopt environmental policies and to eliminate wood procurement from endangered forests. To date, RAN and allies have compelled more than 25% of the U.S. wood market to adopt policies that protect old-growth forests and the human and political rights of indigenous forest communities. As a pioneer in bringing environmental ethics to global finance, RAN has engaged financial institutions and indigenous communities in efforts to protect forest ecosystems and communities by championing more responsible capital investment.

With support from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, Rainforest Action Network will continue to pressure the private banking sector to implement comprehensive lending and investment policies that shift financing away from destructive, greenhouse gas-emitting industries and toward more socially and environmentally sustainable alternatives.

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