ESG & Investing
Amazonian Leaders Bring a Dark Message on Gold Trading to London
Yanomami land has been ravaged and polluted by illegal mining for gold, as market prices for the commodity have soared to record highs of more than $3,000 an ounce.
Photographer: Alan Chaves/AFP/Getty ImagesA delegation of Amazonian leaders journeyed from the world’s largest rainforest to the financial center of London last week to deliver a message: capitalism has failed their home and its inhabitants.
Representatives of the Yanomami, Krenak and Kambeba peoples of the Brazilian Amazon met with leaders in British academia and finance to give first-hand accounts of the hidden devastation behind commodity trading, highlighting the impacts that large, unchecked extraction of natural resources have on Indigenous communities.