Rainforest Action Network fights to Preserve the Rainforest, Protect the Climate & Defend Human Rights.

Since 1985, RAN has fought against the biggest global drivers of deforestation—from the palm oil trade to the publishing industry; from high fashion labels to the biggest banks in the world. Their carefully chosen and highly effective campaigns target not just corporations, but entire corporate and financial sectors: the worst of the worst culprits responsible for this environmental and human rights global crisis. And they get results.

But they don't do it alone. They depend on frontline communities, local partners and supporters from around the globe.

RAN fights for the climate. RAN’s climate and energy finance team is working towards long-term goals of keeping global temperature change to 1.5 degrees, protecting human rights, and accelerating the decline of the most climate-destructive fossil fuel subsectors.

Even during this political moment, where fossil fuel corporations and the U.S. government are increasingly looking one and the same, they are working for tangible and necessary wins that uplift human rights and eliminate the dirtiest forms of extreme energy: tar sands, coal mining and power, and liquified natural gas.

From taking on the fossil fuel industry, to cutting off Wall Street financing for dirty energy projects, to creating a new way to think about a sustainable energy future, RAN fights alongside people directly impacted by dirty energy, challenging corporate power that place profits above people and planet.

Indigenous and frontline communities are the best stewards of the world’s rainforests and the best organizers against climate change. History has proven that time and again — and that is why RAN created the Community Action Grants program.

RAN Community Action Grants provide crucial and rapid funding for people fighting in their own communities across the globe to protect millions of acres of forest, to keep millions of tons of carbon in the ground, and to protect the rights and self determination of local communities. 

MISSION

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

VISION

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.