Projects

: Field research

Profundo provided urgewald with the company identifiers and bond ISINs for the Global Coal Exit List.

The main goal of the Periodic Evaluation (PE) is to assure - through evaluation by an independent third party - that the Timber Legality Assurance System (TLAS) is functioning as described in the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), thereby enhancing the credibility of the FLEGT licences. The experts will conduct audits and evaluations using a documented evidence-based methodology to check compliance and system failures that might have occurred.

A labour compliance assessment of ix construction projects in Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. Mondiaal FNV and BWI have launched a project to organise construction workers and improve their working conditions at projects in East Africa funded by International Financial Institutions (IFI’s). As part of this project, a research team of Profundo conducted this study with the general objective of identifying IFI projects in East Africa and assessing the labour compliance at these projects, to be the base of the trade union lobby and campaign activities, under the framework TUC programme 2017-2020 on IFI’s of Mondiaal FNV.

This report reveals that 33 global banks have provided $1.9 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris climate accord at the end of 2015. The amount of financing has risen in each of the past two years.

Research for PECH Committee: The diversity of detrimental factors impacting the European eel and the number of involved stakeholders pose a challenge for an effective stock management. Knowledge on the economic consequences of single management measures is required to better assess their implications for the involved sectors.

This report presents the findings of a study on the level of labour compliance in RSPO certified management units in Indonesia. Recently many NGOs and trade unions are uncovering violations of core labour and human right principles by major palm oil companies. This has increasingly put labour and living conditions of workers on the agenda of key institutions like the Roundtable for Responsible Palm Oil (RSPO).

Operations of the extractive industry are often characterised by severe human rights risks and abuses/violations. This report lists which banks have extended loans to five companies that caused or contributed to severe human rights abuses. The selected cases show a lack of progress in mitigating the negative impact and in providing remedy to the victims. As long as no remedy has been provided, the FBG will consider these cases as ongoing cases.

Approximately 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from deforestation. Palm oil and soybeans are two of the four main crops driving deforestation, next to other environmental and social problems. Investor awareness regarding the material risks emerging in the palm oil sector has grown, but soyrelated risks are not yet widely recognised. This paper aims to compare the two supply chains and draw lessons for investors in dealing with companies in the soy supply chain.

In anticipation of the UN database on business enterprises involved in the Israeli settlement enterprise, this report identifies direct and indirect links between European businesses and selected economic sectors in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. These settlements are illegal under international law.

In this project an infograph was produced with an inventory of existing and planned international finance institution (IFI) projects in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Maldives. The infograph also analyses of the importance of trade union involvement in these projects.

This research project has provided Mondiaal FNV with an inventory of existing and planned international finance institution (IFI) projects in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Maldives and analyses of the importance of trade union involvement in these projects.

This report provides a summary of critical analyses of the RSPO and ISPO certification systems raised by NGOs, by researchers and in the media.

This paper explores the existence and extent of market access risk and financial consequences in the soy supply chain due to weak sustainability performance. With pressure on commodity traders increasing to adopt and strengthen zero-deforestation, also soy producers involved in legal deforestation face increasing market access risk.

The objective of the research is to assess the level of transparency of Dutch banking groups about their contribution to the development of a sustainable society, and to encourage them to become more transparent, now and in the future.