Inside the murky trade of Russian oil https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/stop-russian-oil/inside-murky-trade-russian-oil/
What links the port of Bristol, a Gujarati refinery, Gatwick airport, and a converted courthouse in the sleepy town of Grays, Essex? The answer is Russian oil, thanks to the increasingly murky trade going underground to keep Vladimir Putin’s most important export flowing around the world.
An online tool developed last year by the NGO Global Witness aims to monitor and expose deforestation linked to the indirect supply chain of Brazilian meat company JBS.
Brazil Big Beef Watch, a Twitter bot, uses satellite data and cattle transit permit data to identify whether a ranch where deforestation was detected is part of JBS’s supply chain.
Environmentalists have often criticized JBS, the world’s biggest meat producer, for being opaque about its indirect supply chain and its inability to take action.
The new tool, Global Witness says, aims to serve as a way to call on JBS to take action and for the company’s financers to stop backing it until JBS can prove that its supply chain is deforestation-free.
"Russia is exporting more crude than ever. Oil tankers are flagged all over the place to conceal ownership. We built a web crawler that goes from shell company to shell company to find the owner. Russia exports so much oil thanks to Greek-owned oil tankers." No link, documents, downloads or further info provided.