The Swedish furniture giant devours 20 million cubic metres of wood every year. That’s one tree every two seconds. An investigation into a discreet predator that has become a champion of greenwashing over the years.
Almost 60% of the products manufactured by Ikea are made from wood. But are the brand’s commitments to respecting ecosystems being met? From the last boreal forests in Sweden to plantations in Brazil, via the New Zealand countryside and the wide open spaces of Poland and Romania, Disclose has traced the Swedish multinational’s supply chain. This multi-part investigation has been adapted into a 90-minute documentary, broadcast on Arte on Tuesday 27 February.
The French Justice Ministry has called for our 2021 investigation into France’s complicity in crimes committed by the Egyptian dictatorship to be “unpublished”. The investigatory chamber is expected to rule on 8 July whether the director of public prosecution should reopen the judicial inquiry which acknowledged that our revelations were in the public interest and exonerated reporter Ariane Lavrilleux, who finds herself yet again in the crosshairs of the French state.
One week after a ceasefire was signed by Israel and Hamas, Disclose can reveal that a consignment of equipment made by French company Sermat is to be shipped to Israel on 20 October. The parts are for drones designed by Elbit Systems, one of the Israeli armed forces’ main suppliers. This is the fourth such contract uncovered by Disclose between a French company and an Israeli military industry player since the war started in Gaza.
