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NGOs launch 2024 EU elections manifesto calling for bold action on sustainable finance

Today, a group of over 20 NGOs, including BankTrack and coordinated by ShareAction through the European Responsible Investment Network (ERIN), has published a manifesto for the EU elections calling on policymakers to make sustainable finance a top priority of the 2024-2029 EU agenda. The NGOs, which work on finance, human rights and the environment, represent supporters across multiple member states,…

2023-10-26 | BankTrack, Both ENDS, Fair Finance International, Global Witness, PAX, ShareAction, others

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NGOs launch 2024 EU elections manifesto calling for bold action on sustainable finance

2023-10-26 | BankTrack, Both ENDS, Fair Finance International, Global Witness, PAX, ShareAction, others

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Sustainable power: banks must step up a gear

A new tracker launched today by 13 NGOs, including Reclaim Finance and BankTrack, reveals the biggest global banks do not have the basic policies and financing targets needed to support decarbonization of the power sector.

2023-10-24 | BankTrack, Bank on our Future, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Climate Action Network France, Finance Watch, Friends of the Earth France, Make My Money Matter, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon, ShareAction, Sierra Club, WWF

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Investing in Extinction - How the global financial sector profits from traditional medicine firms using threatened species

2023-10-23 | Environmental Investigation Agency

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The 2023 Global Coal Exit List: Failing the Phase-Out

40% of companies on the GCEL are developing new coal assets. 95% of the industry still lacks a phase-out commitment

2023-10-19 | Berlin, Germany | urgewald

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Over 100 campaigners descend on Maastricht for the International Bank Campaigners Gathering, marking BankTrack’s 20th anniversary

2023-10-16 | BankTrack

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US residents call out ING Bank in Rotterdam

They are holding the bank responsible for damage caused by LNG terminals

2023-10-11 | Rotterdam, the Netherlands | BankTrack, ING Fossielvrij

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Banks have no planned exit from coal for steelmaking

A new briefing from BankTrack calls on banks to urgently restrict finance for metallurgical coal

2023-10-10 | Julia Hovenier – BankTrack

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Civil society urges POSCO to halt extension of coal-based steelmaking 

POSCO Holdings invests USD 392 million in relining two mega blast furnaces 

2023-10-06 | Seoul | Solutions for Our Climate

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New database names companies blacklisted by global investors and banks

2023-10-04 | The Hague, San Francisco | BankTrack, Both ENDS, Environmental Paper Network, Fair Finance International, Forests & Finance, Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands, Milieudefensie, PAX, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network

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ING

Netherlands

Representatives of communities affected by ING's finance for liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals called out the impacts the bank's finance is having on their communities. ING Bank is the third-largest financier worldwide of LNG terminals in the US.

Hana Financial Group

South Korea

Hana Bank's finance for the Java 9 and 10 coal plants is the subject of a new complaint to the IFC's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman.

Standard Bank

South Africa

Activists occupied Standard Bank's Johannesburg headquarters for three days in September to demand an end to coal finance, and to oppose the bank's support for the EACOP. See coverage in the Daily Maverick here and here.

Raiffeisen Bank International

Austria

The largest international bank remaining in Russia, resisting calls to withdraw. Now added to Ukraine's International Sponsors of War list.

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Latest publications

    
    Still bankrolling coal (for steel) 

                    2023-10-10 00:00:00
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                        Julia Hovenier, BankTrack                    
                                    
    Barclays' bond with Adani

                    2023-09-18 00:00:00
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                        Banktrack & Toxic Bonds Network                    
                                    
How Barclays, one of the Adani Group's most loyal banks, must cease facilitating Adani's access to capital for the sake of the climate, human rights - and Barcalys' own good

    How should financiers align with the Global Biodiversity Framework? Five Key Principles

                    2023-06-26 00:00:00
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                        BankTrack, Bank Information Centre (BIC), Friends of the Earth US, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)                    
                                    
    Banking on Climate Chaos 2023

                    2023-04-13 00:00:00
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                        Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack,  Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald