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The NGO Netwerk Vlaanderen promotes an environmentally and socially responsible approach to money, and strives for a just society. Our campaigns show banks that they have to take responsibility for their investments. Banks invest in all kinds of activities, including weapons, military dictatorships, and companies that abuse human rights or pollute the environment. Banks use our savings and the money that we invest in them to make these investments. Netwerk makes the customers of banks aware of this, and asks banks to lay their cards on the table and stop unethical investments.
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BNP Paribas 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.… |
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Citi Citigroup Inc., doing business as Citi, is a major American financial services company based in New York, NY. Citigroup was formed from a merger between Citicorp and financial… |
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Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank was founded in 1870 and is a leading global investment bank. It has operations throughout the world and has a strong presence in Germany and Europe. … |
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Dexia Dexia is a Belgian-French financial institution, also referred to as the Dexia Group. It was founded in 1996 through the merger of Crédit Communal de… |
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ING Group ING (an abbreviation of Internationale Nederlanden Groep) is a Netherlands based international financial services company and one of the world’s largest savings banks.… |
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KBC KBC, established in 1998 from a merger between two Belgian banks (the Kredietbank and CERA Bank) and the Belgian insurance company ABB, is an integrated bancassurance… |
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Triodos Bank Triodos Bank is a social-ethical bank that finances companies, institutions and projects that add cultural value and benefit people and the environment, with the support… |
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Canadian Tar Sands 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,… |
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Cluster Munitions producers Cluster munitions pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and after a conflict. Cluster munitions are designed to blanket a large area containing one or more… |
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Ilisu Dam The 1,200 MW Ilisu dam project is planned on the Tigris River in Southeast Turkey, some 50 km away from the border with Syria and Iraq. A 1,800 m-long wall will form a 313… |
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Shwe Gas and Pipelines Projects The ‘Shwe' (meaning ‘golden' in Burmese) projects entail exploitation of underwater natural gas deposits off the coast of western Burma's Arakan State and dual… |
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Alliant Techsystems Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world's largest manufacturer of ammunition and a leading supplier of precision systems and electronic warfare. The company is also active… |
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Freeport McMoRan Freeport McMoRan is an international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. Freeport McMoran operates primarily in copper-, gold- and molybdenum mines.Freeport… |
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Hanwha Hanwha Corporation, the former Korea Explosives Corporation, is a world business leader in industrial explosives production, and in construction, trade, machinery, and pharmaceuticals.… |
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L-3 Communications L-3 Communications Corporation is a leading supplier of a broad range of products and services used in a substantial number of aerospace and defence platforms. L-3 Communications'… |
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Poongsan Poongsan, a leading defence company in South Korea, develops military and sporting ammunition. It is the second South Korean cluster munitions company, after Hanwha. The… |
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Singapore Technologies Engineering Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) is an integrated engineering group specialising in innovative solutions and services in the aerospace, electronics,… |
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Textron 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… |
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Vedanta Resources 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… |
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Australian banks too invest billions in coal Work of greenpeace |
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Banksecrets 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. |
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BNP Paribas: stop radio activeinvestments A press release from Greenpeace |
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Campaign Bankroet Stimulating Belgian banks to contribute to the fight against climate change. Banks invest billions in coal fired power plants: a true climate disaster. |
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Coal finance website |
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Coal is a disaster for the climate, stop investments in coal fired power plants! Netwerk Vlaandereren and environmental organisations BBL, WWF Belgium, Greenpeace Belgium, Friends of the Earth Flanders & Brussels and the workers movement KWB call for a halt to investments in coal plants. |
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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. |
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ING one step forward in ranking Netwerk Vlaanderen |
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Nep Bankieren Campaign site urging people to mark all money bills with the word nep 'fake'. In Dutch |
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Stop investments in coal fired power plants |
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Top Financial institutions invest over US $43 billion in producers of cluster bombs |
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Coal fair action day Oct 22, 2011
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Coal funeral at Deutsche Bank, ING & BNP Paribas Mar 01, 2011
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Firewalk Jun 08, 2010
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Netwerk Vlaanderen action against ING Nov 26, 2005
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Stop explosive investments! Oct 29, 2009
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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. |
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| Shameful investments: banks still funding cluster bombs Oct 05, 2010 - Cluster bombs are banned under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, but 138 banks and other financial institutions are still investing over $20 billion USD in the producers of these indiscriminate weapons. Activists paid a visit to 2 of the top banks investing in cluster bombs in the UK, Barclays and HSBC, to call on them to disinvest.
www.stopexplosiveinvestments.org |
| Deutsches Geld für Streubomben (German) Aug 18, 2010 - German news item about involvement of German banks in Cluster munitions producer (7.6.2010) |
| Fireparty: launch campaign against banks and climate change Jun 10, 2010 - -in dutch- |
| 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. |
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| the cluster bomb feeling Nov 01, 2008 - documentary on investments of Dutch pension funds in arms industry |
