简报四：完整的原始森林和脆弱的次生林
禁入区域四：该简报详细介绍了银行和金融机构如何通过与森林高风险相关的部门融资，推动了森林退化和森林砍伐。该简报呼吁银行和金融家停止为毁林和森林退化相关的商业活动提供资金，制定强有力的森林政策，同时保护森林居住的当地和原住民社区。
Briefing Paper #5: Free Flowing Rivers
No Go area 5: Free flowing rivers explains why it is important for banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to harmful activities which negatively impact or alter free flowing rivers. The paper offers useful lessons and key takeaways on how the international banking sector can establish strong water and exclusionary policies to protect free flowing rivers and the communities reliant on them.
Briefing Paper #4: Intact primary and vulnerable secondary forests
No Go area 4: Primary and vulnerable secondary forests details how banks and financiers are driving forest degradation and deforestation by financing sectors tied to high forest risks. The paper urges banks and financiers to stop financing deforestation and forest degradation by developing robust forest policies which also protect forest dwelling local and Indigenous communities.
International Rivers and CECIDE release a fact sheet on the Koukoutamba Dam, which threatens the critically endangered Western chimpanzee in Moyen Bafing National Park
During COP15, International Rivers in partnership with Guinean organization, CECIDE, released a new fact sheet, “Guinea’s Koukoutamba Dam: A White Elephant in the Making,” which reveals the anticipated environmental harms from the Koukoutamba Dam under preparation in Guinea.
Friends of the Earth International’s statement on the failures of the new Global Biodiversity Framework
This week, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) released a statement to express disappointment over the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which was finalized during the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Conference of the Parties (COP15) this month.
90 Civil Society Groups Call on China to Protect Biodiversity in its Overseas Investments
On December 15, 2022, 90 civil society groups from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the world called on Chinese authorities and actors to protect biodiversity and people in its overseas investments.
简报二：国家和次国家机构承认区域
禁入区域二：该简报呼吁银行和金融机构通过禁止对可能损害这些地区的项目进行融资，以保护国家和次国家认可的地区，例如公园、保护区、纪念馆、纪念碑、保护区等。该简报提供了有关投资国家认可领域相关风险的重要经验教训，以及银行和金机构家如何采取更多措施来保护这些领域免受不可持续发展和项目的影响。
Civil society organizations urge the IFC to reject proposed loan to expand pulp plantations in Brazil’s Cerrado.
On December 9, 2022, Brazilian and international civil society organizations (CSOs) wrote a letter to the International Finance Corporation (IFC, an arm of the World Bank) to not approve the proposed US$900 million loan forCivil society organizations urge the IFC to reject proposed loan to expand pulp plantations in Brazil’s Cerrado.
Briefing Paper #3: Habitats with Threatened and Endemic Species, and Key Biodiversity Areas
No Go area 3: Key Biodiversity Areas and habitats with endangered and endemic speciescalls on banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to activities and projects which may harm these critical areas.