We're proud to launch our new film telling Mighty Earth's story of how we deploy our "perfect storm" campaign approach to stop the destruction of nature and shift whole industries to adopt sustainable practices. We use several strategies, from satellite monitoring to pinpoint deforestation in supply chains to scrutinising companies to see if they're “greenwashing” their climate and ESG credentials. Our reports and investigations have revealed that many industries still don’t have control of their supply chains, allowing deforestation and human rights violations to seep in through direct and indirect suppliers. We work alongside Indigenous communities on the frontline of deforestation, amplifying their voices and seeking new platforms for their stories to be heard. Watch the trailer ⬇️and see the full film here: https://lnkd.in/eXYpfqTK
Mighty Earth
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Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organization working to protect Nature and to secure a stable climate.
About us
Mighty Earth (www.mightyearth.org) is a global advocacy organization working to defend a living planet. Our goal is to protect half of Earth for Nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. We are obsessed with impact and aspire to be the most influential environmental advocacy organization in the world. Our team has achieved transformative change by persuading leading industries to dramatically reduce deforestation and climate pollution throughout their global supply chains in palm oil, rubber, cocoa, and animal feed, while improving livelihoods for Indigenous and local communities across the tropics.
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http://www.mightyearth.org/
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington , DC
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
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- Environment, Nonprofit, Grassroots, Global Campaign , Conservation, Corporate Sustainability, Global Climate Change, Food Security , Marine Protected Areas, Biodiversity Conservation, Local Campaign, Sustainable Food and Agriculture, Forests, Supply Chains, and Oceans
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What impact has Mighty Earth's innovative legal and supply chain actions had on JBS plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)? Join us and our expert panel to find out at our upcoming webinar on 31 July at 0930 ET/1030 BR/1430 UK/1530 CET. It's nearly a year since JBS first announced its Initial Public Offering (IPO) but opposition has been mounting. Securing a listing on the NYSE would give the world's biggest meat company access to billions of dollars to expand its global, climate-wrecking operations. We've submitted a steady flow of submissions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission calling for greater scrutiny of the plan, which misleads investors about the environmental impact of JBS' industrial meat operations. We're not alone, lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have voiced their concerns to the SEC and Office of the New York State Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Brazilian meat giant for misleading US consumers about the sustainability claims of its meat products and the validity of its Net Zero pledges. Join Mighty Earth and leading experts for crucial conversation on why the IPO is bad for climate and nature. 🌳 ➡ https://lnkd.in/dYyDAMhy Cory Booker Glenn Hurowitz Raisa Pina Kevin Galbraith Andrew Shalit Caitlin Smith Caroline Dihl Prolo fama re.capital Changing Markets Foundation The Galbraith Law Firm Green Century Funds Sydney Jones Carole Mitchell João Gonçalves Jordan McDonald Molly Dorozenski Mackenzie Harris #JBS #Webinar #Innovation #SEC #NYSE #Envionment #EnvironmentalImpact #Climate #Nature #NetZero #SBTi #Lawmakers #Sustainability
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DE OLHO NO AGROLOBBY! A Changing Markets Foundation lançou hoje o relatório “Os novos mercadores da dúvida: como as grandes empresas de carne e laticínios evitam a ação climática”. O trabalho revela as táticas da indústria de alimentação para protelar, distrair e desmontar ações que poderiam transformar o sistema alimentar. A conclusão é que as grandes empresas do setor estão ressuscitando estratégias usadas no passado por setores de fumo e de combustíveis fósseis para garantir seus interesses comerciais. Tive o prazer de contribuir, representando a Mighty Earth, com a edição do estudo de caso Brasil. O capítulo aborda como o lobby do agronegócio brasileiro trabalha arduamente para manter a situação favorável e aumentar sempre seus lucros – garantindo pouca fiscalização e o desmonte de políticas públicas, em especial climáticas, que podem impactar o seu negócio. O estudo aborda, por exemplo, o poderoso lobby exercido no Congresso Nacional pela Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA). O bloco “ruralista” suprapartidário, formado por parlamentares para preservar os interesses do setor, ocupava 257 das 594 cadeiras do Congresso na legislatura 2018-2022. Após as eleições de 2023, o número subiu para 374 cadeiras. Sumário executivo em português – com estudo de caso Brasil: https://lnkd.in/edDhYS4R Relatório Completo: https://lnkd.in/eGCnpCq3 #NewMerchantsOfDoubt #BigMeat #BigDairy
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The automotive industry is at a critical turning point when it comes to decarbonizing its supply chain. Steelmakers and automakers are at a stalemate, but recent developments in hydrogen-based steelmaking are finally shifting the conversation. It's time for the industry to embrace sustainable steel. Read more from Matthew Groch Sr. Director of Mighty Earth and coalition member of Lead The Charge in the latest Steel Times International ➡ https://lnkd.in/ev6kWcrh #DecarbonizeAutoIndustry #SustainableSteel #SteelIndustry #sustainability #environment #decarbonization #autoindustry #autosector #lowcarbonfuture #lowcarbon #carmakers
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DELAY, DISTRACT and DERAIL: 3 tactics that help Big Meat and Dairy undermine climate action worldwide. A new report by Changing Markets Foundation is out now, revealing the systematic tactics used by leading meat and dairy companies and their lobby groups to obstruct meaningful climate action. This comprehensive investigation delves into how these industries employ lobbying, greenwashing, and disinformation to delay, distract, and derail efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/e7wiGt_Y #NewMerchantsOfDoubt #BigMeat #BigDairy #environment #beefindustry #dairyindustry #bigmeat #bigdairy #climateaction
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Today a groundbreaking report from the Changing Markets Foundation exposes the tactics used by Big Meat and Dairy – alongside their powerful trade groups – to derail climate action worldwide. Key findings include: -Extensive lobbying to block climate policies -Greenwashing and weak net zero targets -Targeted disinformation campaigns to Gen Z -‘Unproven technofixes’ that taxpayers foot the bill for, -Delaying much-needed transition to more plant-based diets. This investigation underscores the urgent need for stricter legislation and transparency in the meat and dairy industries. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e7wiGt_Y #NewMerchantsOfDoubt #BigMeat #BigDairy
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👀 🍫 I'm accountable: I take responsibility for my actions and explain why I make certain decisions. How many private cocoa companies can say the same about their sourcing decisions? 🤔 Sooner or later, good purchasing practices won't just be just a moral choice. Quality and sustainability are increasingly influencing consumer decisions, while policies and regulations are becoming more stringent. While some companies are already adapting to these changes, how many are communicating transparently and credibly about their purchasing practices? 📢 We call on all private companies in the sector to undertake regular public reporting and to provide access to an accessible and effective grievance mechanism. This will not only increase transparency, but also empower all stakeholders in the supply chain to be truly accountable, ultimately fostering collaboration and more inclusive business relationships. 🌍🤝 Join us and over 100 civil society organisations and farmer cooperatives in calling on companies for a #JustCocoaIndustry. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gsiC7dY9 👈 A call to action from Oxfam International, the INKOTA-netzwerk and Mighty Earth. Featured in the video: Liesbeth Van Meulder, Cocoa and Coffee Programme Liaison in Europe and Napoleón Molina, Cocoa and Coffee Director in Latin America. #FortheLoveofChocolate #BeAccountable #SustainableCocoa #SustainablePurchasing #LivingIncome
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🤲 🍫 In the cocoa industry, the weakest shoulders often bear the heaviest burdens. 🌱 Climate change and unpredictable weather affect crop yields, and price volatility -both in selling prices and input costs - makes cocoa farming increasingly difficult. 📢 Private companies must engage in inclusive, long-term contracts with farmers. These contracts should be asymmetrical, designed to favour farmers, acknowledging the economic and social vulnerabilities which make them less resilient to shocks and less capable of counteracting risks. 🌍🤝 Join us and over 100 civil society organisations and farmer cooperatives in calling on companies for a #JustCocoaIndustry. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gsiC7dY9 👈 A call to action from Oxfam International, the INKOTA-netzwerk and Mighty Earth. Featured in the video: Raphael Kwame Frimpong, Cocoa Programme Officer for Rikolto in Ghana and KOUAME Amani Alphonse, Cocoa Programme Coordinator for Rikolto in West Africa #FortheLoveofChocolate #SharetheRisks #SustainableCocoa #SustainablePurchasing #LivingIncome
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"With the climate emergency and biodiversity loss intensifying , Spanish supermarkets must move from words to deeds and be part of the solution to save Brazil’s precious biomes from further destruction.” Mighty Earth's senior adviser for Spain, Isabel Fernández Cruz quoted in widespread coverage of our new report which for the first time found meat products on the shelves of Carrefour España, Mercadona, Lidl España, Grupo Dia, ALDI ESPAÑA, Alcampo and El Corte Ingles are likely linked to soy-driven deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado savannah in Brazil. LAURA OJEA Carlos Bravo Villa Alex Wijeratna Glenn Hurowitz Read coverage of the report ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dsWaViX8 And here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dzgR-88a Read the report "Busted! Spanish soy sourcing linked to deforestation risk in the Amazon and the Cerrado," in full here: https://lnkd.in/ezx7SqKY #soy #soyindustry #Spain #EUDR #deforestation #zerodeforestation #Brazil #AmazonForest #Cerrado #SavetheCerrado #ProtecttheAmazon
Soja y deforestación: el papel de los supermercados españoles en la crisis amazónica
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Campaigns to transform the private sector can deliver Nature and climate action even as the Supreme Court obstructs the government's ability to do so. Put another way, the government may not be able to do its job, but the job still must be done. Despite their stranglehold over the courts, even the worst polluters and destroyers of Nature need customers, financing, and a social license to operate. We have found that these needs provide levers to transform industry. When the people who pay the bills raise questions about how a company can do a better job, executives listen. And the good news is that at least in some cases, investors, customers, and the media are knocking on a door that if not flung wide open to greet them, is at least ajar: a growing number of companies are staffed by people who want their enterprise to do good. Mighty Earth had some big successes in protecting forests and decarbonizing major industries through these approaches. As readers of this series know, campaigns on big agribusiness have reduced deforestation for palm oil, paper, and rubber 90%; won science-based decarbonization commitments from the biggest steel companies; and most recently sparked even some of the worst actors in the meat industry, a source of climate pollution bigger than even all transportation, to act to protect ecosystems in the supply chain, begin to tackle methane pollution, and boost sales of plant-based protein. Of course, these strategies did not begin with us. Indeed, markets campaigns have their origins as far back as the Boston Tea Party. More recently, when scientists tied the alarming hole in the ozone layer to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that were produced mostly by Dupont, campaigners persuaded the company to pledge that it would cease making them if the link were proven. When it was, Dupont agreed to phase them out – and urged the Reagan administration, skeptical as it was of environmental regulation, to support a global ban. That chain of events led to the Montreal Protocol and the restoration of the ozone layer. Even in this era, there is still a role for politics and government. Notwithstanding the Court’s efforts to hobble it, the Inflation Reduction Act is still driving trillions in investment in climate action. It is possible to imagine a vigorous political party one day delivering majorities that could upend the Court’s meddling. But we cannot wait for that happy day. Despite their long history of success, campaigns to reshape industry are underfunded. In our current reality, we need strategies that can deliver transformative change and soon, and scaling private sector action is an approach whose moment has very much arrived. I hope you will read and comment on the full essay...
A Post-Chevron Strategy For Protecting the Environment
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