WASHINGTON – With growing concern over the impacts of climate change and related financial risks to U.S. investors, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Friends of the Earth and Amazon Watch will host a briefing on private investment as a driver of tropical deforestation and related material financial risks to U.S. investors.
Civil society experts from Indonesia, Liberia and Ecuador will present testimonies from the frontlines of tropical deforestation. Analysts from Friends of the Earth and Amazon Watch will detail how investors may be exposed to significant risks related to environmental degradation, human rights violations and land conflicts.
source: https://foe.org