Japan's megabanks MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation are fuelling the climate crisis, funding fossil fuel expansion & violating human rights. Join us to learn how we can hold them accountable!🔥 📅 30 Oct, 9:00 CEST | 17:00 Tokyo 🔗 bit.ly/boccjapan
We reviewed the Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s 2024 "Progress Report". Found no sign of actual progress. #NZBAwww.banktrack.org/blog/new_net...
Last week, the bank-led and UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) published its 2024 Progress Report. This report, the second in its kind, “summarises information received from…
New: UN Special Rapporteurs Surya Deva and Robert McCorquodale have written to the Equator Principles, a banking sector initiative, expressing concern over its lack of a central accountability mechanism and urging action. www.banktrack.org/article/un_e...#BizHumanRights
UN human rights experts tasked with supporting the right to development and with interpreting obligations of business under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) have…
🚨 Today is TotalEnergies' Investor Day in NYC! 🚨 In solidarity with the communities impacted by Total’s harmful operations, we call on banks to follow BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole in refusing to support Total's bonds. Read the full press release here: toxicbonds.org/activists-ac...
On Wednesday 2nd October, climate groups are protesting in New York, where TotalEnergies is hosting its main investors. Actions are also taking place this week at the headquarters of TotalEnergies’ in...
Financing Adaro Energy Indonesia means facilitating the destruction of Indigenous lands and livelihoods. Banks must reject financing for this blatant disregard for our environment and communities.
Seven European banks are -allegedly- down for financing the disastrous EACOP oil pipeline. A message for these banks, whoever they are: www.banktrack.org/article/euro...#StopEACOP
The StopEACOP coalition warned today that seven European banks will be walking into a minefield of litigation, formal complaints, and severe reputational damage, if they go ahead with their…
BankTrack – Sep 26 2024 Barclays earned $1.7 billion from company tied to Indigenous land invasion Financial powerhouses including Barclays, Vanguard and BlackRock made millions from financing Brazilian meatpacker JBS www.banktrack.org/article/barc...
British banking giant Barclays earned $1.7 billion between 2018 and 2023 by financing JBS, a Brazilian meatpacker implicated in the destruction of Indigenous territories in Brazil, a new Global…
The elephant in the room is still RBI's ties to the Putin regime. Just as in Belarus, RBI is propping up a remorseless dictator. Just as in Belarus, it can stop at any time. It's never too late to make the right decision. If RBI can leave Belarus, it can also #LeaveRussia.
Three years ago, we posted a piece on RBI's deep ties to the Lukashenko government. For years, RBI has owned a big stake in Belarus' Priorbank, helping to bankroll and legitimise this dictatorial regime. We're relieved to see them on the right path. www.banktrack.org/article/mone...
“Pecunia non olet“ - Money does not stink. This ancient Roman saying was recently put to use by German agricultural equipment producer B. Strautmann & Söhne as it dismissed…
Better late than never: We welcome Raiffeisen Bank International's decision to exit Belarus and end its complicity with an autocratic regime. The €300m hit the bank has taken here is surely smaller than the reputational risk of bankrolling Lukashenko. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Raiffeisen Bank International said on Friday it is selling its Belarus business at a loss to an investor from the United Arab Emirates, as the Austrian lender faces mounting pressure to also pare back its Russian arm.