RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK

RAN works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate, and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Our programs aim to:
Keep forests intact and standing.
Stop financial institutions from funding and insuring fossil fuels.
Amplify frontline leaders to create lasting, systemic change.

We are committed to reforming entire systems to protect the climate, preserve forests and biodiversity, and uphold human rights. To achieve this, we seek:

-An end to human rights abuses associated with the expansion and operation of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure, as well as the industrial pulp, oil palm and forestry sectors.
-To secure remedy for environmental and social harm.
-Accountability from consumer-facing brands and their financiers for their contribution and linkage to climate emissions, deforestation, forest degradation, peatland conversion, failures of forest governance, and human rights abuses.
-An end to the expansion of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure globally as well as an end to the expansion of industrial forestry and pulp and oil palm plantations in tropical rainforests and peatlands.
-Recognition and protection of community rights and restoration of forest ecosystems as components of government and private sector policies.
-Alignment with, and support for, environmental and human rights defenders.
-Global strategies to limit human-induced climate change, advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development -Goals, and enable community-based livelihoods and solutions.

RAN was an innovator and early proponent of a market campaign approach to environmental activism and continues to leverage its expertise as a leader in this space. We identify a critical problem, analyze the corporate drivers, and campaign against the largest economic players in order to shift the public conversation, pressure big brands and banks to adopt and implement policies that respect people and planet, and eventually shift entire industrial sectors. Perhaps most importantly, we demand that any new corporate policies and commitments include the protection of human rights and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty.

Core to our approach is building and maintaining authentic and effective partnerships with local, Indigenous and frontline communities, and their allies across the globe—many of which are directly impacted by the greed of our corporate targets. To move our targets and
transform sectors, RAN campaigns employ:

-Globally recognized, cutting-edge research and reports like our annual Banking on Climate Chaos report and the groundbreaking Forests & Finance online database.

-Collaborative partnerships with international NGOs, local community activists, and Indigenous leaders protecting forests across the globe.

-Peaceful direct actions from marching in the streets and occupying federal agencies to dropping banners outside the headquarters of some of the biggest industry leaders in the world.

-Traditional and social media campaigns spotlighting our issues and partner voices in big media outlets and connecting with over six million supporters across social media platforms.

-High-level corporate negotiations with major industry leaders such as PepsiCo, Disney, General Mills, Cargill, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and many more.

For more than 35 years, RAN has developed highly effective strategies to radically shift policies and practices in the world’s biggest financial institutions and corporations. We combine grassroots organizing with high-level corporate negotiations; we produce cutting edge research and coordinate peaceful, powerful protests; we partner with Indigenous leaders and frontline communities in South America, North America and Southeast Asia and raise their voices in prominent international media outlets. Our campaigns have resulted in some of the most rigorous and ground-breaking changes from Fortune 500 companies since our founding.

We strategically select our targets — from PepsiCo and Unilever to JPMorgan Chase and Disney — because when we move them, we move entire sectors, and in doing so we create lasting, systemic change that affirms people and planet over profit.

At the heart of our mission is our commitment to working with Indigenous and frontline communities who are directly impacted by profit-driven systems of injustice. RAN’s organizational priorities of advancing racial justice and human rights and dismantling systemic oppression, underpin all of RAN’s long-term goals.

At Rainforest Action Network, we focus on protecting people and planet. Our mission at RAN is ambitious and global in scope. Our campaigns address some of today’s biggest and most challenging crises — and we get results.

Over our 35 year history, RAN has secured some of the most rigorous and ground-breaking changes from Fortune 500 companies since our founding including policies from Disney, PepsiCo, Unilever, Cargill, Chevron, Home Depot, Burger King, and more. We invite you to visit our website at www.ran.org/how_we_win/ to see a detailed timeline of our milestone achievements.

Rainforest Action Network has ambitious goals for the coming years to work toward our vision of a world where the climate is stable, forest are preserved, biodiversity is protected, and rights are secured and upheld. We will contribute to those goals by exposing destructive supply chains, tracking the flow of capital to irresponsible and culpable industries, and amplifying the voices of directly impacted frontline communities. With this evidence-based information, RAN will exert public pressure on corporations, banks, and institutions to stop environmentally and socially destructive practices and remedy harm at the local level.

Our priorities for the coming year include:
-Ramping up the pressure on the worst corporate drivers of deforestation including Procter & Gamble, Mondelez, and Ferrero.
-Stopping the flow of money to fossil fuel projects and expose climate gaslighting by the worst financiers and insurers of climate chaos, including JPMorgan Chase and Liberty Mutual.
-Stewarding and growing our Network of grassroots organizers, activists, and frontline communities.