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Analysis reveals TotalEnergies’ misleading transition claims

Investors need to cease support for the company until it abandons its oil and gas expansion strategy
At its Investor Day on 27 September, TotalEnergies will present itself once again as a “major player in the energy transition”. But is it really diversifying its energy products? A new briefing from Reclaim Finance shows that TotalEnergies’ fossil fuel extraction will in fact increase between now and…
2023-09-26 | Reclaim Finance
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Analysis reveals TotalEnergies’ misleading transition claims

Investors need to cease support for the company until it abandons its oil and gas expansion strategy
2023-09-26 | Reclaim Finance
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Risks ahead of meatpacker JBS’ NYSE listing: “Wall Street: Steer clear of JBS”

Citigroup, Bank of America, BlackRock, Vanguard and more are enabling JBS’s environmental destruction & human rights abuses
2023-09-22 | New York | Friends of the Earth
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Standard Bank brutalises climate activists: A call to boycott Standard Bank for the sake of our planet

2023-09-22 | Johannesburg | Extinction Rebellion Gauteng
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Investors with US$861 billion in assets under management and advisement support findings of BankTrack’s 2022 Global Human Rights Benchmark

2023-09-21 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
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TNFD final framework launches to ongoing fears of greenwashing

2023-09-19 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
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New report and blog: Barclays' bond with Adani

For the sake of the climate, human rights - and for its own good - Barclays should cut ties with Adani after the company's recent scandals
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2023-09-18 | BankTrack, The Sunrise Project
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Société Générale announces leading climate policy on gas

Société Générale has become one of the most advanced French banks in terms of climate change. Reclaim Finance is calling on Société Générale to confirm its ambition by ceasing to support oil and gas expansion through measures aimed at companies developing new fields.
2023-09-18 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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World Bank Group under fire for backing toxic and unnecessary Java 9 & 10 coal project in Indonesia

A formal complaint has been lodged against the World Bank Group for providing back-door financing for two new coal power plants in Indonesia.
2023-09-15 | Inclusive Development International, Recourse, Trend Asia
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Climate groups slam banks over senior PR hirings to deal with bad climate record

Climate groups have criticised banks for hiring senior staff to deal with their poor image on climate change - instead of actually dealing with climate change.
2023-09-13 | The Sunrise Project
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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

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Activists occupied Standard Bank's Johannesburg headquarters for three days last week 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.

Barclays

United Kingdom

A new briefing from BankTrack and Toxic Bonds Network highlights Barclays' close relationship with coal miner Adani. Earlier, research highlighted Barclays as the biggest financier of the world’s highest-emitting meat company, JBS.

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Barclays' bond with Adani
2023-09-18 00:00:00 | 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 | 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 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): Finance Risk Update No. 4
2023-04-12 00:00:00 | BankTrack
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2023-09-14 00:00:00
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2023-09-12 00:00:00
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On 2023-09-28 21:23:12 we updated the Rosebank project page.
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