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Twenty organisations are taking action worldwide to demand that Santander’s shareholders take action in response to the bank’s increase in financing of fossil fuels

The campaign denounces the bank’s backtracking on its climate commitments with coordinated actions throughout Spain, including a bus painted with the slogan “Santander Finances the Climate Crisis” circulating through central Madrid. The bank has increased its financing of the fossil fuel sector to $48.276 billion between 2021 and 2024. At the global level it is the bank that finances…

2026-03-27 | Ecologistas en Accion

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Twenty organisations are taking action worldwide to demand that Santander’s shareholders take action in response to the bank’s increase in financing of fossil fuels

2026-03-27 | Ecologistas en Accion

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New Report: Major banks backing risky US petrochemical expansion despite mounting legal and financial warnings

2026-03-24 | Break Free from Plastic, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Friends of the Earth, Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub, People over Petro, Texas Campaign for the Environment

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Civil society complainants' response to TotalEnergies on the Papua LNG project

2026-03-16 | Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Market Forces, Reclaim Finance

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Growing financial resistance to deep-sea mining from institutions managing €24 trillion in assets

2026-03-11 | Deep Sea Mining Campaign, Seas At Risk

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Stand’s letter to potential financiers of the Tilbury LNG terminal

2026-03-10 | Stand.earth

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Banks accused of “back-door” funding for EACOP via €1.5bn TotalEnergies bond

2026-02-27 | BankTrack, #StopEACOP

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Santander publishes annual report – ShareAction response

2026-02-26 | ShareAction

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Complaint filed to SGX against OCBC for potential misleading conduct

2026-02-24 | Singapore | Market Forces

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Crédit Agricole fined by the ECB for failing to identify climate and environmental risks

2026-02-19 | Forests & Finance

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Upcoming events

Mar31

UniCredit AGM 2026

The 2026 general meeting of UniCredit's shareholders

Tue Mar 31 2026 12:00 AM (UTC) Italy AGM

Mar31

Women's momentum assembly for a just fossil fuel phaseout

WECAN's Women’s Momentum Assembly for a Just Fossil Fuel Phaseout—a virtual global assembly of women in all of their diversity in the lead-up to the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia.…

Tue Mar 31 2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC-4) Online Meet up

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Curbing Petrochemicals: A Key Enabler to Phase Out Fossil Fuels

A high-level webinar to explore the latest research on petrochemicals and bridge the gap between energy, plastics, and food systems.

Tue Mar 31 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (UTC+1) Online Webinar

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Spotlight

Decarbonising Steel: BankTrack’s New Research on Real vs. False Solutions
Not all steel decarbonisation strategies are credible. Some are “false solutions” that risk delaying the transition to a non-fossil-fuel steel sector.

Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide
Find out how to raise human rights complaints with commercial banks and pursue remedy

Tell Costco to Clean Up its Credit Card
Call on Costco to drop dirty bank Citi as its credit card partner because of Citi’s role in funding catastrophic climate change.

Target Dodgy Deals

GEO Group

United States | company

Simandou Iron Ore Project

Guinea | project

Mozambique LNG

Mozambique | project

CoreCivic

United States | company

Adani Group

India | company

East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

Uganda | project

Papua LNG

Papua New Guinea | project

ArcelorMittal

Luxembourg | company

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Focus banks

NatWest Group

United Kingdom

NatWest’s annual report was published in February, and was accompanied by policy changes that ShareAction said amounted to "tearing up oil and gas financing restrictions".

Raiffeisen Bank International

Austria

RBI is under new leadership. Cultural organisations being sponsored by the bank risk whitewashing a major enabler of the war on Ukraine, argues this new BankTrack blog.

OCBC Bank

Singapore

Market Forces lodged a complaint at the Singapore Exchange against OCBC for potential misleading conduct over finance for Harita Nickel Group. Following the complaint, Harita removed key data about its coal power capacity from its website.

China CITIC Bank

China

CITIC’s steel decarbonization framework fails to explicitly exclude financing for all five “false solutions” identified in BankTrack’s False Solutions Report, including biomass, CCUS, and carbon offsetting.

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Banks and Climate

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Banks and Nature

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Latest publications

    
    Financing False Solutions in Steel Decarbonisation 

                    2026-02-11 00:00:00
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                        BankTrack                    
                                    
This report analyses the sustainable finance frameworks of 20 global banks, and which solutions for steel decarbonisation are included. 

    Banking on Biodiversity Collapse 2025

                    2025-11-05 00:00:00
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                        Forests & Finance                    
                                    
    EACOP Finance Risk Update #6

                    2025-10-23 00:00:00
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                        BankTrack & partners                    
                                    
    Mining and Money 

                    2025-09-03 00:00:00
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                        Forests & Finance Coalition including: Rainforest Action Network, TuK Indonesia, Profundo, Amazon Watch,
Milieudefensie, CED Cameroon, Repórter Brasil, BankTrack, Sahabat Alam Malaysia,
Friends of the Earth US and Observatório da Mineração