Global Witness
Description
Global Witness is an investigative, campaigning organisation. It exposes how industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction. It stands with people and communities defending their rights against that destruction.
For over thirty years it has worked to expose links between environmental destruction, conflict, corruption and human rights abuses. It combines research and investigations with public campaigning. Its strategy for the years ahead aims to confront the power of polluting companies and support grassroots resistance to them.
The organisation works with an international network of partners on its investigations and campaigns. It has a safeguarding process for people who wish to raise whistleblowing concerns.
Global Witness is based in three offices, in London, Brussels and Washington D.C. It publishes governance information along with annual reports and financial statements. It also recruits staff for positions across these offices and relies on public donations to support its investigations and campaigning against the industries it says are driving climate breakdown.
Latest news
At least 124 Land and Environmental Defenders killed globally in 2025
At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2025, bringing the total documented killings and disappearances since 2012 to 2,375, a new report by Global Witness reveals
16 Sep 2026
UK barbecues tied to destruction of South American forests
Major British charcoal brand Big K’s Paraguayan supplier sources timber from cattle farm that has deforested area size of Birmingham
10 Sep 2026
Lobbying by chocolate giant Mondelez threatens landmark EU deforestation law
Toblerone and Milka maker Mondelez has been courting EU powerbrokers for over a year in an effort to dismantle key deforestation regulation, a Global Witness investigation has found
8 Sep 2026UK public want bold climate action from Burnham after record-hot summer
After a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and record-breaking temperatures, new polling has revealed the UK public want Burnham’s government to take strong climate action to protect people in schools and hospitals. The More in Common polling, commissioned by investigative climate non-profit Global...
8 Sep 2026AI chatbots share climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation
Artificial intelligence chatbots can spread climate conspiracy theories, climate denial and disinformation to users, a new Global Witness investigation reveals
18 Dec 2025
Political bias on X’s AI chatbot risks influencing the UK vote, new investigation reveals
X's chatbot, Grok, showed political bias in its suggested tweets in the lead-up to the UK's General Election, a new Global Witness investigation reveals
3 Jul 2024
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