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Giorgio Michalopoulos is a Greek-Italian freelance investigative journalist based in Brazil, specialised in environmental investigations and exposing the greenwashing of polluting companies, banks, and asset managers. His cross-border, awarded investigations have appeared in Voxeurop, The Guardian, Domani, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Mediapart, Expresso, Nacional, and other European newspapers. Giorgio also won the CEI Seemo Award as a young professional Journalist. He is also a PhD student at the Centre for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Giorgio is a 2025 Green Queen Climate Feed Fellow.

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Billions of Dollars Marketed As ‘Green’ Are Quietly Fuelling Deforestation

Giorgio Michalopoulos Jan 28, 2026

From Brazil’s cattle pastures to Indonesia’s palm oil plantations, European “green” funds that claim to combat climate change are financing companies tied to deforestation and rising emissions, shows a new investigation by Green Queen…
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