As they say in politics, “Follow the money” — the same goes for environmental damage: and it’s hard for communities impacted to discover where the money trail leads. Merel van der Mark, Forests and Financial Coordinator for Rainforest Action Network, talks about their efforts to build a worldwide database of financiers of environmental damage, detailed in their “Banking on Biodiversity Collapse Report“.

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