BNP Paribas is one of the
main banks in Europe. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the
merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. Together
with Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais it is one of the 'three old banks' of France.
Early in 2010, BankTrack reviewed the publicly available sector and issue policies of BNP Paribas to assess how these policies dealt with social and environmental issues and met international best practice for a particular sector or issue. Go here for the report.
In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil,…
HidroAysén - owned by European company Endesa and Chilean company Colbun - plans to dam two of Chile's most powerful and pristine rivers, the Baker and Pascua Rivers.…
The Jaitapur project plans to host two European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) of 1,650 MWe each, with possible extension by four additional units. The Generation III+ class…
An offshore oil project in the north Caspian Sea, Kashagan is part of the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), a 40-year contract that was signed in 1997…
The Kusile coal fired power plant project is located in the province of Mpumalanga, in South Africa. With 4800MW, it will be one of the largest power plants of its kind in…
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been chilled to liquid form, reducing it to one-six-hundredth of its original volume for transportation by ship to destinations…
Eskom is a state-owned enterprise. Established in 1923, it was corporatized from the start, being set up to run on business principles and to deliver cheap and abundance…
Mountain top removal (MTR) mining is a form of strip mining in which coal companies use explosives to blast as much as 800 to 1000 feet off the tops of mountains order to…
The US$1.45 billion Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, in the small Southeast Asia country of Laos, is supposed to generate revenue for the cash-strapped Lao government by exporting…
The Sakhalin II project in the Russian Far East is said by project sponsors to be the largest integrated oil and gas project in the world. The project involves three…
The construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant is another Soviet era stop-start and much delayed farce. Like…
If built, the Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project would displace up to 4,800 people and affect another 48,441 people living downstream on project construction lands and in host…
Enerjisa, the Turkish electricity producer owned by E.ON and Sabanci, is building a new coal power plant in Tufanbeyli, commonly known as Enerjisa 2.5. The lignite-fired…
The Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) is planned to be sited at the bank of the Danube River, which forms the border between Bulgaria and Romania. Technical design and construction…
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is threatened by planned oil development by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. The oil development will take place in Block 31, two thirds…
Dynegy LS Power is currently planning to construct more new coal-fired power plants than any other company in the USA, which will result in very large increases in greenhouse…
The Grasberg mine, located in the indonesian province of Papua, on the island New Guinea, just north of Australia, is being run by the mining company Freeport McMoran. The…
Sesa Goa is the largest iron ore producer and exporter of Goa. Since 2007 Vedanta Resources is the majority shareholder of Sesa Goa. Sesa Goa's main mining operations are…
Toka Tindung is about 35 km north east of Manado, the capital of the Indonesian Province of North Sulawesi. The project entails the development of six open-pit gold mines…
BankTrack has identified controversial issues
with the companies listed below that require attention from BNP Paribas.
Areva
France
If you imagine the global nuclear industry as a giant web, AREVA is the fat, radioactive spider at its centre, greedily looking for new prey. It has manufacturing facilities…
E.ON is a German electricity company headquartered in Düsseldorf and is one of the big global players in energy production. E.ON operates along the entire value chain…
Like its rival and fellow French multinational AREVA, Électricité de France (EDF) is one of the biggest players in the global energy game. In fact, with more…
As Italy's largest power company and Europe's second largest according to its generating capacity, Enel is another one of the titans of the energy industry. Its interests…
Recently, two big European electricity utilities, GDF Suez and International Power, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the largest independent electricity…
Hanwha Corporation, the former Korea Explosives Corporation, is a world business leader in industrial explosives production, and in construction, trade, machinery, and pharmaceuticals. …
Lockheed Martin is a global security company that is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology…
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) are the largest electricity producer in India. Their total installed capacity, including that under joint ventures, is close to…
Europe's second largest electricity generator and one of Europe's five leading gas and electricity companies. Founded in 1898, the company has grown to supply electricity…
Textron is a multi-industry company, consisting of numerous subsidiaries and operating units. One subsidiary is Textron Systems, which is active in the defence, homeland…
Sweden's state-owned Vattenfall is Europe's sixth largest generator of electricity and largest producer of heat. Vattenfall delivers electricity to around 7.8 million customers…
Vedanta Resources is a mining company. It produces aluminum, copper, lead and zinc. Vedanta has a strong position in India, where its founder Anil Agarwal was born, but is…
Vinci is a leading company involved in concessions and construction, and has operations in around 100 countries. It employs an estimated 180,000 people…
BNP Paribas‘s response to the concerns raised in FoE’s report “Farming money: How European banks and private finance profit from food speculation and land grabs”
Jan 27, 2012 | BNP Paribas
Response from BNP Paribas on the FoE Europe report Farming money.
Belene action day against BNP Paribas - Europe Jun 05, 2007
Coal funeral at Deutsche Bank, ING & BNP Paribas Mar 01, 2011
Tell BNP Paribas: STOP dangerous nuclear investments Oct 21, 2010
videos
Coal funeral at Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and ING
Jan 09, 2012 - On the 1st of March 2011, Netwerk Vlaanderen and its partner organisations in the Bankroet campaign buried coal in front of Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and ING, putting the dirty energy source where it belongs: under the ground. Netwerk Vlaanderen handed over more than 4.000 signatures against investments in coal-fired power plants to the respective banks. These banks are among the biggest financiers of coal-fired power plants in the Belgian banking sector.
10 Reasons Why Bankers are Mostly Human
Jan 04, 2012 - 2011 was the year full of controversies. Our cyber satire unveils banks and bankers that talk green but invest in climate killer coal fired power plants.
Opération transparence
Jan 02, 2012 - Friends of the Earth France street action in front of BNP Paribas headquarters for the launch of the Bank secrets website.
Oct 21, 2010 - Greenpeace launched a new campaign against banks financing dangerous nuclear power plants, like Angra 3 in Brazil, financed by BNP Paribas. Part of the campaign is this great movie
Aviva Imhof about International Rivers and BankTrack
May 19, 2010 - Video shot during the BankTrack annual meeting in Zuerich, January 2010.
Yann Louvel about Les Amis de la Terre and BankTrack
May 19, 2010 - Video shot during the BankTrack annual meeting in Zuerich, January 2010.
Risky Business: the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project
Mar 22, 2010 - The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, the largest dam in Laos, was hailed by many as they way to reduce poverty and demonstrate best practice in socially and environmentally responsible dam building, still the initial signs have not been promising...
G: Interview downstream Theun Hinboun river
Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos
F: Interview village in project land
Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview village in project land, May 2009, Laos
E: Interview village 2 downstream Theun Hinboun river
Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview village 2 downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos
D: Interview village downstream Theun Hinboun river
Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview village downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos
C: Interview Resettled village part 2
Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview resettled village part 2, May 2009, Laos
H: Extra footage project site THXP
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about project site THXP, May 2009, Laos
I: Extra footage THHP
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about THHP, May 2009, Laos
J: Extra footage different uses of the river
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about different uses of the river, May 2009, Laos
K: Extra footage the Theun Hinboun river
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about the Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos
L: Extra footage village life
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about village life, May 2009, Laos
M: Extra footage fishing
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about fishing, May 2009, Laos
N: Extra footage growing rice
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about growing rice, May 2009, Laos
O: Extra footage processing rice
Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about processing rice, May 2009, Laos
B: Interview Resettled village part 1
Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview resettled village part one, May 2009, Laos
A: Still waters, deep trouble; how Equator bank commitments sink in Lao dams
Nov 11, 2009 - This video shows how the Theun Hinboun Expansion Project in Laos is threatening the livelihoods of more than 50.000 local people.
Banking in the Shadows .. a Trip to Jersey
Sep 07, 2009 - The British Channel Island of Jersey is a major European tax haven.
In March 2009, European activists visited Jersey to expose how tax havens affect the lives of ordinary people around the world.
International website developed by BankTrack, CRBM, Les Amis de la Terre, Netwerk Vlaanderen, Platform, Setem and Urgewald.
Information in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish.
Based on Les Amis de la Terre main reports on private finance, this educational website presents a profile of French banks, saving products and insurances, and aims at making individuals
aware of the social and environmental impacts of these financial institutions, and at encouraging them to get active in this area of crucial importance.
The website also includes a web calculator, for individual to be able to evaluate the carbon weight of their savings, and to show them how to reduce it by changing their choices of banks and savings products.
Funeral of coal at BNP Paribas, ING, Deutsche Bank
On Tuesday 1st March NGOs handed over 4,000 signatures to representatives of banks that are active on the Belgian market. The signatories of this petition asked the banks to end their investments in coal-fired power stations.
Tell banks not to finance the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in India
Greenpeace cyberaction against the potential involvement of BNP Paribas and HSBC in the financing of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project in India.
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