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Bank policy scan: HSBC accelerates backsliding on fossil fuel commitments

While attention has focused on HSBC’s new net-zero transition plan, the bank has simultaneously weakened core sustainability risk policies.
2025-12-01 | BankTrack
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Extensive financial ties between European financial institutions and companies linked to occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine

2025-11-25 | BankTrack, Don't Buy Into Occupation
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TotalEnergies faces criminal complaint for complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearance in Mozambique

2025-11-18 | Berlin, Paris, Maputo | ECCHR, Friends of the Earth Europe, Justiça Ambiental (JA!)/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Les Amis de la Terre France
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European banks pour nearly €8 billion a year into critical minerals mining despite links to human rights and environmental abuses

Meanwhile, the EU rolls back and weakens its sustainability and green rules
2025-11-17 | 11.11.11, Fair Finance International, Oxfam
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Global Banks persist in financing LNG expansion in Mozambique intensifying violence, displacement and environmental devastation

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2025-11-14 | BankTrack, Justiça Ambiental (JA!)/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Rainforest Action Network
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Despite reaching FID, Coral North FLNG project is drowning in financial uncertainties

2025-11-13 | 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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JPMorgan Chase quietly adds restrictions to fossil fuel financing in the Amazon rainforest

At COP30, experts acknowledge this step and underscore the need for a policy that fully ends financing to oil and gas in the Amazon.
2025-11-13 | Stand.earth
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Big four Australian banks fund major fossil fuel firms $43 billion in 10 years

The research finds that ANZ and Westpac stand out as Australia’s fossil fuel banks, accounting for over 80 percent of all lending from the big four banks to major fossil fuel companies across 2024 and 2025.
2025-11-12 | Market Forces
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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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Focus banks

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.

HSBC

United Kingdom

In November, HSBC published its Sustainability Risk Policies Framework. The bank removed previous commitments and opened the door for more fossil fuel financing.

ANZ

Australia

A recent report from Market Forces highlights ANZ as the biggest funder of fossil fuels among Australian banks, having loaned or arranged over $15.9 billion for companies in the Global Coal, Oil and Gas Exit Lists in the last decade. Its AGM is on Dec 18th.

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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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