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New analysis shows bank responses to human rights enquiries worsening

Update of BankTrack’s Response Tracking database shows under 5% of banks responded constructively to recent issues raised by civil society, underlining need for stronger regulation
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2025-11-11 | Oriane Bui – BankTrack
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New Report Exposes How Global Banks and Investors Are Still “Banking on Biodiversity Collapse”

Coalition Calls for Financial Regulation to Halt Deforestation
2025-11-05 | Sao Paulo | BankTrack, Amazon Watch, CED Cameroon, Forests & Finance Coalition, Friends of the Earth US, Milieudefensie, Observatório da Mineração, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network, Repórter Brasil, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, TuK INDONESIA
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Global Oil & Gas Exit List 2025: Expansion Outpacing Climate Action

Companies plan 171% increase of LNG export capacity.
2025-11-04 | Berlin | urgewald
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Mighty Earth Files Case with UK Financial Regulator on Barclays’ Bankrolling of Superpolluter JBS

Mighty Earth is calling for a financial probe into Barclays’ backing of the world’s most polluting meat company, JBS, and profiting from a multi-billion-dollar sustainable finance fraud, while turning a blind eye to corruption, deforestation and human rights abuses
2025-10-30 | London
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European Banks Refuse OECD Offer of Mediation in Unprecedented Move Following Complaint on Private Prison Investments

Civil society organizations condemn alarming expression of indifference by UBS, HSBC, and Barclays to their human rights responsibilities for investments in the private prison industry as the Swiss oversight body recommends UBS make improvements, especially to review of passive investment
2025-10-28 | New York & Nijmegen | BankTrack, Worth Rises
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Metallurgical coal flush with nearly $22 billion from banks, over $30 billion in investments

2025-10-28 | urgewald
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TotalEnergies ready to restart Mozambique LNG at any cost — provided that cost is paid by Mozambicans

2025-10-27 | BankTrack, urgewald, Friends of the Earth Japan, Justiça Ambiental (JA!)/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Les Amis de la Terre France, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon
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New carbon bombs data shows fossil fuel industry’s plans to overshoot the world’s carbon budget

CarbonBombs.org is the first global tool mapping all carbon bombs – large-scale gas, oil and coal projects, set to emit more than 1 gigatonne of CO₂ over their remaining lifetime
2025-10-27 | Data for Good, éclaircies, LINGO, Reclaim Finance
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TotalEnergies financiers beware: EACOP is eating up money, nature and livelihoods

New briefing paper for financiers shows project leads forced to self-finance almost 90% of East African Crude Oil Pipeline
2025-10-23 | BankTrack, AFIEGO, Both ENDS, EarthInsight, Environment Governance Institute (EGI), Inclusive Development International, Just Share, Reclaim Finance
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CoreCivic

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Raiffeisen Bank International

Austria

The Austrian government has abandoned its proposal to award €2 billion in frozen Russian assets to RBI. BankTrack and partners had sent an open letter to the European Commission opposing the plan.
 

UBS

Switzerland

On October 28th, the Swiss OECD National Contact Point announced that UBS had refused mediation with BankTrack and Worth Rises over an OECD complaint on the bank's private prison investments - the first time a European commercial bank has refused OECD complaint mediation.

Standard Chartered

United Kingdom

In October, it was announced that Standard Chartered is replacing Crédit Agricole as financial advisor for the Rovuma LNG project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Crédit Agricole pulled out of the project in March 2024.

Barclays

United Kingdom

On October 28th, Mighty Earth filed a formal complaint with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority calling for an investigation into Barclays' "market misconduct" in underwriting $3 billion of JBS’s Sustainability-Lined Bonds (SLBs), which are alleged to be fraudulent.

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Latest publications
Banking on Biodiversity Collapse 2025
2025-11-05 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance
EACOP Finance Risk Update #6
2025-10-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack & partners
Mining and Money
2025-09-03 00:00:00 | 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
Banking on climate chaos 2025
2025-06-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack, urgewald, Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED), Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance & Sierra Club
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