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Website http://www.anz.com.au
Headquarters
833 Collins Street, Docklands
3008 Melbourne
Australia
CEO/chair Shayne Elliott
CEO
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Reserve Bank of Australia
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listed on Australian Securities Exchange & New Zealand Stock Exchange

ANZ's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is the fourth largest bank in Australia, after the Commonwealth Bank, the National Australia Bank, and Westpac. ANZ was established in 1951. In addition to operations throughout Australia and New Zealand, ANZ has banking activities in 34 other nations. ANZ is the largest bank in New Zealand, where it operates two brands: ANZ and the National Bank of New Zealand.

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ANZ's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) approach

ESG policies and practices

ANZ has the following CSR policies in place:

2024-11-06 00:00:00

SDG Bond Framework

Bank policy
2024-11-06 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-05-05 00:00:00

Information about ANZ's extractives industry policy

Bank policy
2024-05-05 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-02-22 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement 2023

Bank policy
2024-02-22 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-13 00:00:00

ESG Supplement 2023

Bank policy
2023-11-13 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-12 00:00:00

Energy Policy

Bank policy
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-10 00:00:00

ESG supplement 2023

Bank policy
2023-11-10 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-25 00:00:00

Approach to Climate Change 2022

Bank policy
2022-11-25 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Water Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Hydroelectric Power Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Forestry and Forests Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Military Equipment Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-07-31 00:00:00

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy

Bank policy
2022-07-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-05-31 00:00:00

Human rights statement

Bank policy
2022-05-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-05-31 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policy

Bank policy
2022-05-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-11-30 00:00:00

Land Acquisition Position Statement

Bank policy
2021-11-30 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-11-23 00:00:00

Climate change commitment

Bank policy
2021-11-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-09-23 00:00:00

Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-10-29 00:00:00

Carbon policy

Bank policy
2020-10-29 00:00:00 | ANZ
2016-12-16 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Practice

Bank policy
2016-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ
2016-11-17 00:00:00

Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy

Bank policy
2016-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ
2016-09-23 00:00:00

Health and Safety Policy

Bank policy
2016-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
ANZ has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Dow Jones Sustainability IndicesTags: sustainable development | transparency
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
National Carbon Offset StandardTags: climate change | greenhouse gas emissions | carbon
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)Tags: agriculture | commodities | corporate social responsibility
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Dodgy Deals

ANZ is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of ANZ's link to these deals.

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Still banking on false solutions

BankTrack’s False Solutions Tracker shows that most of the 30 banks assessed count finance for harmful technologies towards their sustainable finance targets.
2025-05-20 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Indigenous people opposed to the large-scale steel plant and coal-fired power plant planned in India by JSW Steel have filed a "human rights complaint" against the three Japanese megabanks that continue to lend to the company

インドの鉄鋼大手のJSW Steelが、同国内で計画中の大規模製鉄所と石炭火力発電事業に反対する先住民らが、同社に融資を続ける日本の3メガバンク等に対して「人権侵害の申し立て」
2025-05-07 | RIEF
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Environmental concern? Global NGO leads campaign urging banks to cut ties with Odisha steel project

BankTrack mentioned
2025-05-04 | Counterview
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Indian steel-affected communities launch complaint against Australian and Japanese banks

New complaint alleges banks failed to uphold human rights standards by lending to JSW Steel in India
2025-05-02 | BankTrack
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JSW Steel: Human rights complaint filed against ANZ, Japanese banks over alleged ties to Dhinkia abuses

All four banks have policies in place committing them to act in line with international human rights standards, including a direct commitment to the principle of ‘free, prior and informed consent’
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2025-05-02 | Down to Earth
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Indian steel-affected communities launch complaint against banks

BankTrack mentioned
2025-05-02 | Steel Times International
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India: BankTrack urges Australian & Japanese banks to exit controversial Odisha steel project citing land grabs and environmental injustice

BankTrack mentioned
2025-05-02 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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‘Net Zero banks’ turn their back on crucial 1.5ºC climate target

“Overwhelming majority” of Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) members seeks to loosen obligations on how to reach Paris climate goals.
2025-04-15 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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International CSOs call on banks to rule out finance for controversial Indian steel and coal project

Of 22 financiers of JSW Steel, none committed not to finance the much-opposed Utkal Steel project in Odisha
2025-03-13 | BankTrack
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13 banks will not finance Papua LNG

2025-02-03 | Defund TotalEnergies
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Most large banks still failing to implement UN human rights principles, new BankTrack benchmark finds

Despite gradual progress, banks show little action in addressing impacts, protecting vulnerable groups and supporting affected communities.
2024-11-27 | BankTrack
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Energy supply financing ratios: the next milestone in banks’ climate strategy

The energy supply financing ratio is a key indicator that synthesizes two major challenges in limiting global warming to 1.5°C: the phase-out of fossil fuels and the development of sustainable alternatives.
2024-10-07 | Reclaim Finance
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Breaking: CommBank formally walks away from climate wrecking clients

While ANZ, NAB and Westpac gear up to loan hundreds of millions more to one of Australia’s most notorious climate wreckers
2024-08-14 | Market Forces
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BankTrack set to publish 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark in November

50 of the world’s largest banks were invited to provide feedback on draft assessments of their human rights disclosures
2024-07-23 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | Giulia Barbos – BankTrack
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Big four Australian banks pour $3.6 billion into fossil fuels in 2023

2024-07-16 | Market Forces
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Tiwi Islanders take aim at bank's complaint rejection

Traditional owners say they have been brushed aside by ANZ after their complaint to the bank about its funding of the Barossa gas project was dismissed.
2024-06-06 | The Canberra Times
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Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement; $705 billion provided in 2023 alone; JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho, and Bank of America are worst 3 funders

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report with an updated methodology offers comprehensive look at who’s bankrolling the climate crisis
2024-05-13 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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ANZ rules out Papua LNG, leaves the door open to fund climate wrecking companies

It is absolutely essential that ANZ rules out corporate finance and bonds to companies with expansion plans.
2024-05-09 | Market Forces
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We’re calling on banks to do their part to stop POSCOs coal expansion

Unless POSCO scraps its relining plans, banks should rule out future finance for the Korean steelmaker
2024-02-27 | BankTrack, Solutions for Our Climate
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Financiers warned of huge risks to communities and biodiversity as Rio Tinto approves world’s biggest mining project

2024-02-26 | Accra, Ghana and Nijmegen, Netherlands | BankTrack, Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA)
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Coal Havens - Asia’s biggest banks still open for coal business after COP28

The largest banks in India and Indonesia – global hotspots of the coal industry's growth – have no coal exclusion policy
2024-01-23 | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
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POSCO is relining coal-based steel furnaces to prolong their lifetimes. This jeopardises its financiers' climate commitments.

Financiers of POSCO should be wary of capital expenditures that are misaligned with climate commitments
2023-12-18 | Julia Hovenier – BankTrack
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67 organisations call on banks to cease financing metallurgical coal

Banks risk stranded assets & climate catastrophe in steel lending without metallurgical coal exclusions
2023-12-07 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Reclaim Finance
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Big four banks make strides, but action still dangerously slow in a climate emergency

There are still massive gaps in the policies of the ‘big four’ that could enable them to keep arranging new or renewed finance for fossil fuel expansion over the next two years, and possibly even decades beyond 2025.
2023-11-16 | Market Forces
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ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

An ANZ shareholder is taking the bank to court over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss.
2023-11-09 | FS Sustainability
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Westpac takes two steps forward, one big step back

2023-11-08 | Market Forces
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Decarbonization: steel not making the cut

Analysis by Reclaim Finance shows that few financial institutions have steel targets, and that those that have been adopted are riddled with flaws
2023-08-23 | Reclaim Finance
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Banking Climate Failure

How Australia’s big four banks are still funding new fossil fuels
2023-05-30 | MarketForces
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New report: Canadian bank RBC the #1 financier of fossil fuels, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2023-04-13 | San Francisco | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Australia’s big four banks face human rights complaint over Santos Barossa financing

2023-04-05 | Market Forces
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JFM cautiously welcomes ANZ exit and calls for responsible disengagement

2022-11-22 | Justice For Myanmar
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New human rights assessment of banks shows slow progress and lack of action to address key gaps on reporting and remedy

BankTrack’s 2022 Global Human Rights Benchmark finds reporting at a standstill, remedy still lacking and no clear leaders
2022-11-17 | BankTrack
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Santos announces refinancing of syndicated debt facilities

Santos announced it had executed documentation to amend and extend its two syndicated bank loan facilities totalling US$1.25 billion.
2022-08-30 | Santos
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Finance groups risk being kicked out of Mark Carney-led climate coalition

2022-08-22 | London, UK; and Boston, USA | Financial Times
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Jackdaw shows once again Shell is failing on climate. So why are its bankers failing to act?

2022-07-19 | The Hague, The Netherlands | Sumeyra Arslan – BankTrack
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Climate groups call on Shell’s bankers to stop Jackdaw gas field

UK government’s regulatory approval opens the door for Shell to move ahead with the Jackdaw field
2022-06-03 | BankTrack
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New report: Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2022-03-30 | San Francisco, Bemidji, Nijmegen, Oakland, Paris, Sassenberg, Washington DC | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
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Repeat offenders NAB, ANZ and Westpac bankrolling “bet against the Paris Agreement”

NAB, ANZ and Westpac are among 18 global banks that have loaned to a gas processing facility that paves the way for a carbon bomb at the scale of 15 coal power stations.
2022-01-20 | Market Forces
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#StopEACOP: 11 banks say “no” to Total in 2021

2021-12-31 | BankTrack
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ANZ forced to address heavy fossil fuel funding at 2021 AGM

Despite its commitments to the Paris Agreement and net-zero by 2050, and that achieving these goals leaves no room for new fossil fuel projects, ANZ has continued pouring billions into companies and projects that expand the fossil fuel industry.
2021-12-16 | Market Forces
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ANZ climate complaint ruling highlights need for Australia to follow other countries and pass new climate finance laws

2021-12-15 | Friends of the Earth Australia
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Banks failing to address severe human rights impacts transparently, finds BankTrack research

Findings reinforce the need for regulators to ensure access to effective remedy for people affected by bank finance
2021-12-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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ANZ will keep lending to oil and gas

2021-11-26 | Financial Review
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ANZ fails to rule out funding fossil fuel expansion amidst climate crisis

2021-11-26 | Market Forces
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New Hope Corporation doubles down on coal during farcical 2021 AGM

2021-11-19 | Market Forces
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ANZ launches human rights grievance mechanism in a first for the global banking sector

The bank’s move follows 2020 agreement reached in OECD complaints process
2021-11-03 | BankTrack, Accountability Counsel, Equitable Cambodia, Inclusive Development International, SOMO
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Equator Banks involved in financing at least 200 fossil fuel projects since Paris

BankTrack research sheds new light on finance for fossil fuels by Equator banks
2021-10-26 | BankTrack
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Banks and biodiversity: are banks moving towards Kunming?

As China hosts the first part of the UN Biodiversity Conference, banks are called upon to support its goals
2021-10-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Shareholders push for Australia's banks to stop fossil fuel funding

2021-10-07 | Reuters
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Fossil Banks No Thanks demands banks commit to end fossil fuel finance before Glasgow Climate Summit

210+ groups support urgent call to action
2021-09-23 | BankTrack
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Banks called upon to take action to protect biodiversity ahead of UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming

Civil society organizations urge banks to adopt stringent “No Go” policy for biodiversity rich areas
2021-05-26 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Gov’t not bothered about banks refusing to finance EACOP

2021-04-27 | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent
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‘Silence not an option’: ANZ refuses to sign letter condemning Myanmar violence

2021-04-05 | BHRRC
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ANZ rules out supporting East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2021-03-31 | BankTrack
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ANZ labelled ‘worst in Australia’ on climate over fossil fuel loans

2021-03-24 | The Sydney Morning Herald
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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Over 260 organisations call on banks not to finance Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline

With a final investment decision nearing, African and International organisations warn banks against joining $2.5 billion loan for a “manifestly irresponsible” project • New stopeacop.net campaign website launched.
2021-03-01 | International | BankTrack, 350.org Africa, AFIEGO, Inclusive Development International, IUCN NL
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Climate risk sees ANZ divest from Port of Newcastle, the largest thermal coal terminal in the world

2021-02-09 | ABC News
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Corporate accountability and the just transition: Frameworks for holding corporations accountable for climate change

2020-12-14 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Birka Wicke, Utrecht University, Joseph Wilde Ramsing, OECD Watch, Katharine Booth, Business and Human Rights Lawyer, Marian Ingrams, OECD Watch
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Citi, Deutsche Bank, ANZ committed for trial in Australian criminal cartel case

2020-12-08 | Reuters
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Bushfire survivors and Friends of the Earth’s response to Initial Assessment of ANZ climate complaint under OECD guidelines

2020-11-25 | Friends of the Earth Australia
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ANZ's climate policy reveals steps away from coal to support net zero emission by 2050

2020-10-29 | ABC News
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Nationals call for ANZ boycott after bank's push for net zero emissions

2020-10-29 | The Guardian
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ANZ commits to exit thermal coal, but rewards climate-destructive companies

2020-10-29 | Market Forces
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New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
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Equator Principles requirements missing for most projects, finds new BankTrack study

Research into 37 projects financed 'under Equator' finds project-level grievance mechanisms or stakeholder engagement processes cannot be evidenced in 65% of cases
2020-08-11 | BankTrack
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ANZ agrees to landmark settlement with Cambodian farmers displaced by sugar company it financed

The agreement, the first of its kind by a commercial bank, sets an important human rights precedent for the banking industry worldwide.
2020-02-27 | Inclusive Development International
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Bushfire survivors join claim against ANZ for financing climate crisis

2020-01-30 | The Guardian
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Bushfire survivors launch claim against ANZ under international law for financing climate change

2020-01-30 | Friends of the Earth Australia
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4 out of 5 banks failing on human rights, new BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark shows

Lloyds, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale among the poorest performers in BankTrack ranking, alongside Canadian and Chinese banks
2019-11-26 | BankTrack
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Too little, too late

National Australia Bank’s new climate policy an exercise in greenwash
2019-11-15 | Market Forces
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ANZ and Westpac boosted new lending to fossil fuel projects last year, figures show

2019-11-06 | The Guardian
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NAB, ANZ and Westpac hit with climate risk shareholder resolutions

2019-10-10 | Melbourne, Australia | Market Forces
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Big Australian banks face shareholder vote on coal lending

2019-10-10 | The Australian Financial Review
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BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Australian Prudential Regulation Authority demands banks, insurers act on climate risk

2019-03-20 | Financial Review
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Our Future: Clean energy a test for banks’ rehabilitation

2019-02-04 | The Advocate
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Banks massively financing fossil fuels unclear about future of ... fossil fuels

Few banks acknowledge relation between fossil fuels and climate breakdown
2018-12-20 | Nijmegen
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ANZ Declines to ‘Do the Right Thing’ for Displaced Cambodian Farmers

Statement by Inclusive Development International And Equitable Cambodia for the ANZ Banking Group Annual General Meeting
2018-12-19 | Equitable Cambodia, Inclusive Development International
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ANZ bank issued rare rebuke by Australian oversight body

2018-10-11 | Inclusive Development International
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Australian inquiry slams greedy banks and regulator for rampant misconduct

2018-09-28 | Reuters
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Big four banks quit coal only to invest in other fossil fuels, research finds

2018-05-31 | The Guardian
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Big four banks quit coal only to invest in other fossil fuels, research finds

2018-05-31 | The Guardian
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New research: Australian banks 2ºC scorecard 2018

2018-05-31 | Melbourne | Market Forces
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New report: Towards responsible and inclusive financing of the palm oil sector

2017-11-15 | Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Profundo
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TCFD: banks supporting better disclosure are not the ones exiting coal project finance

Bank support for FSB Task Force recommendations is welcome, but reveals lack of joined-up thinking
2017-07-31 | Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack, Yann Louvel – BankTrack
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'Big four' Australian banks slammed for fossil fuel backing

2017-07-25 | Environmental Finance
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Banks provide billions for Dirty Diesel traders while failing to act on human rights, says new briefing

- Oil traders Trafigura and Vitol received over $100 billion in loans since 2012
- Of 26 banks contacted, not one has pressured companies over toxic fuel exports to Africa
2017-05-23 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Standard Chartered and other major banks financing palm oil

2017-03-16 | Energy Desk Greenpeace
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Victims put pressure on ANZ over the loss of their land

Pheun Ra, 42, was visiting her mother in hospital when security guards from the ANZ bank-financed Phnom Penh Sugar Company arrived at her small plot of land in Cambodia's south.
2017-02-27 | The Age
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Adani coalmine: ANZ chief suggests bank would not finance Carmichael project

2016-12-17 | The Guardian
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Banks' climate change talk not yet matched by action

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2016-11-22 | The Sydney Morning Herald
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Financing of coal industry expansion by top banks undermining Paris Agreement

2016-11-14 | Marrakech, Morocco | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth France, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network, urgewald
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New polling shows half of customers prepared to change banks over fossil fuels – as prominent Australians demand climate action

2016-09-15 | Melbourne | Market Forces
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New online platform reveals banks and investors financing companies linked to tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia

Financial sector under the spotlight in new international push to protect forests and forest communities
2016-09-06 | Singapore | Rainforest Action Network
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New poll: Australians draw the line at badly behaving banks

Oxfam Australia release "Still Banking on Land Grabs"
2016-02-15 | Melbourne | Oxfam Australia
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ANZ makes climate commitment, but labelled ‘satirical’, ineffective

2015-10-06 | Rrenew Economy
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ANZ 'will not finance' dirty coal plants and pledges $10bn for clean energy

2015-10-06 | The Guardian
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ANZ climate change policy leaves open the door for real leadership

2015-10-06 | Melbourne | Market Forces
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No lifelines for old coal clunkers: ANZ shifts carbon emissions policy

2015-10-05 | The Australian Financial Review
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No excuse: How Australia’s big four banks can better respond to land grabs

2015-08-07 | Oxfam Australia
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Australian banks: New Report highlights gulf between renewable and fossil fuel financing

ANZ confirmed as Australia’s biggest fossil fuel lender
2015-06-18 | Melbourne | Market Forces
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Australian banks 'favour fossil fuel projects over renewables by $6 to $1'

2015-06-17 | The Guardian
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Banks not yet living up to UN human rights principles, finds BankTrack

New research finds inadequate reporting on human rights impacts, and failure to establish mechanisms to allow complaints.
2014-12-02 | Geneva | BANKTRACK
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Hundreds publicly close bank accounts over fossil fuel investments

2014-10-20 | Melboune | Market Forces
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Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab

2014-10-08 | Phnom Penh
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Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab

2014-10-07 | Inclusive Development
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ Refuses to Help Evictees of Senator’s Farm

2014-08-15 | The Cambodia Daily
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Australian banks face more pressure over support for coal projects

2014-07-09 | The Sydney Morning Herald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Big Four Australian banks lose customers over fossil fuel gamble

2014-05-03 | Melbourne | Market Forces
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Customers switch banks in day of divestment

2014-05-03 | The Age
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Bank accounts closed in fossil fuels protest

2014-05-02 | The Sydney Morning Herald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Australian banks backing companies accused of land grabs

2014-04-28 | Sydney | Oxfam Australia
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Australian and French banks target of protests on both sides of the world for investing in Australian coal projects

2014-02-26 | Melbourne and Paris | Market Forces and Les Amis de la Terre
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ ethics under scrutiny over Cambodian sugar plantation loan

2014-01-23 | Syndey | The Age
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ customers divest in Melbourne!

2013-10-26 | Melbourne | Market Forces
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

“Sustainable” badge for Bank of America stretches credibility of Dow Jones Sustainability Index

2013-09-13 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sixty prominent Australians call on ‘big four’ banks to end fossil fuel investment

2013-06-28 | Melbourne | Market Forces
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Investor Alert: GVK's US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk

Finanial analysis of GVK Alpha Coal Project in Queensland's Galilee Basin concludes
2013-06-19 | Sydney | Greenpeace
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ biggest gambler on dirty coal and gas exports

2013-05-31 | Melbourne | Market Forces
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Report triggers campaign to prevent Australian fossil fuel investment

2013-05-02 | Brisbane | Market Forces
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sustainability in the spotlight keeps banks on guard against greenwash

BankTrack mentioned
2013-02-07 | Business Review Weekly
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

2012-08-13 | Environmental Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning

2011-10-25 | Washington | prizmablog.com
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Time to Improve the Equator Principles, BankTrack Says

BankTrack mentioned
2011-10-24 | Washington | Social Funds
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack to Equator Principles banks; ‘get the Outside Job done’

Equator Principles update must lead to new Principles focused on people and planet
2011-10-23 | Washington | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Financiers search for sustainable future

BankTrack mentioned
2011-10-20 | Washington | Environmental Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Big banks 'no' to coal plant

2011-05-21 | The Age
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Nam Theun 2 inauguration hides real costs of controversial Equator Principles project

More than 100,000 people continue to suffer project impacts
2010-12-07 | Laos | International Rivers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

World Bank-backed dam powers ahead, despite social cost

2010-12-07 | Bangkok | Inter Press Service
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ turns its back on cluster bombs

Insights
2010-12-06 | Australia | BusinessDay
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Greenpeace targets 'coal backing' ANZ

2010-10-19 | ABC News
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Greenpeace illuminates ANZ as Australia's dirtiest bank

2010-10-19 | Sydney, Australia | Greenpeace Australia
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks being urged to lend 'green'

2010-10-02 | Sydney, Australia | The Syndey morning herald
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks under scrutiny over coal funding

BankTrack mentioned
2010-10-02 | Sydney, Australia | The Sydney morning herald
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ hit with $50m suit over fees

2010-09-23 | BusinessDay
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Environment groups welcome Gunns’ frank assessment on native forests

2010-09-10 | Tasmania | Wilderness Society et al.
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Villages make way for new hydro project

2010-08-05 | Vientiane
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New rules for Equator Principles, but no new commitments from banks

New governance rules represent missed chance for Equator Principles to take bold steps forward on transparency and accountability
2010-07-01 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Penan score victory as logging road blockades halt timber giant's encroachment on their rainforests

Defiant forest communities announce they will continue to fight the Samling corporation's activities within the
2010-04-26 | Long Sabai, Sarawak, Malaysia
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Laos’ Nam Theun 2 dam operation illegal

Equator Principles project begins selling power to Thailand in violation of Concession Agreement and obligations to affected communities
2010-03-23 | Laos | International Rivers
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Equator Principles: Action, not words needed

BankTrack calls upon Citi, new chair of Equator Principles to take bold steps forward
2010-03-15 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Civil society groups call for bold steps forward with Equator Principles

Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change
2010-01-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

DJ Archipelago Resources Names 3 Banks For Toka Tindung Finance

2010-01-05 | London | Tradingmarkets.com
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks abandon Gunns Pulp and Paper Mill

2010 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Theun Hinboun hydropower plant expansion progresses

2009-12-08 | Vientiane, Laos | International Rivers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ Pressured to End Loans to Munitions Maker

2009-12-02 | Cambodia
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks must prove they give a dam

By Mark Zirnsak, Sydney Morning Herald
2009-11-27 | Australia | International Rivers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks must prove they give a dam

2009-11-27 | The Age, BusinessDay
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

"Sustainable Finance" undermines food security of Lao communities

ANZ, BNP Paribas and KBC investment in Theun-Hinboun dam violates Equator Principles and Lao law
2009-11-17 | Laos | International Rivers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Must be forced to move 4000 indigenous

2009-11-13 | (English translation with Google-translate of Norwegian article) | Tekniskukeblad
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Må tvangsflytte 4000 urfolk

Statkrafts vannkraftprosjekt i Laos vil få alvorlige følger for over 50 000 mennesker, og 4000 urfolk blir tvangsflyttet, ifølge internasjonale organisasjoner.
2009-11-13 | Norway | International Rivers
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Top financial institutions still invest US$20 billion in cluster bombs

Activists call on banks and pension funds to disinvest from banned weapon
2009-10-29 | London | Netwerk Vlaanderen
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

NGOs Welcome ANZ Decision Not to Finance Gunns Proposed Pulp Mill

Other banks urged to abstain from the project
2008-05-28 | Tasmania, Australia and Netherlands | The Wilderness Society
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New ANZ CEO Mr Smith asked to not finance Gunns pulp mill Tasmania

2007-09-18 | the Netherlands, Tasmania | The Wilderness Society
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

ANZ risks Equator Principles violation

Gunns mill go-ahead depends on approval procedure below third world standards
2007-03-27 | Tasmania, Australia | The Wilderness Society
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Strong criticism on Reopening Lafayette Rapu Rapu mine Philippines

Decision provides false reassurance to ABN AMRO, Standard Chartered, ANZ and other financiers
2007-02-09 | Manila, Utrecht | Defend Patrimony, Greenpeace and BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

NGOs lodge complaint against ANZ Bank for PNG illegal logging ties

2006-08-23 | Australia and Papua New Guinea | Rainforest Action Network
Resources
Documents
Links
2025-05-08 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to ANZ on Jadar project

Correspondence
2025-05-08 00:00:00 | BankTrack and Mars se Drine
2025-03-19 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on Finance to PLN

Correspondence
2025-03-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2025-03-13 00:00:00

Which banks have ruled out finance for the JSW Utkal Steel and Coal Project?

BankTrack publication
2025-03-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2025-02-20 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on JSW Utkal Steel

Correspondence
2025-02-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2024-11-08 00:00:00

2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Other bank document
2024-11-08 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-11-06 00:00:00

SDG Bond Framework

Bank policy
2024-11-06 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-10-01 00:00:00

NZBA 2024 Progress Report

Other document
2024-10-01 00:00:00 | NZBA
2024-05-13 00:00:00

Banking on climate chaos 2024

Fossil fuel finance report 2024
BankTrack publication
2024-05-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance & Sierra Club
2024-05-05 00:00:00

Information about ANZ's extractives industry policy

Bank policy
2024-05-05 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-03-18 00:00:00

Still Butchering the Planet

Partner publication
2024-03-18 00:00:00 | Feedback
2024-02-22 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement 2023

Bank policy
2024-02-22 00:00:00 | ANZ
2024-02-05 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on POSCOs relining plans

Correspondence
2024-02-05 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2024-01-23 00:00:00

Coal Havens

The banks and loopholes keeping coal finance alive in Asia
BankTrack publication
2024-01-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2023-12-07 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on Ending support for metallurgical coal

Correspondence
2023-12-07 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2023-11-22 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on the risks of investing in Simandou

Correspondence
2023-11-22 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2023-11-22 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack, ACA, CTEA to ANZ on the risks of investing in Rio Tinto and Winning International Group’s Simandou Project in Guinea

Correspondence
2023-11-22 00:00:00 | BankTrack, ACA, CTEA
2023-11-13 00:00:00

Annual report 2023

Annual report
2023-11-13 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-13 00:00:00

ESG Supplement 2023

Bank policy
2023-11-13 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-12 00:00:00

Climate-related Financial Disclosures 2023

Other bank document
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-12 00:00:00

Energy Policy

Bank policy
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-12 00:00:00

Climate Change Commitment

Other bank document
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-12 00:00:00

CSR report 2023

Annual report
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-11-10 00:00:00

ESG supplement 2023

Bank policy
2023-11-10 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-04-13 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2023

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
BankTrack publication
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
2023-03-14 00:00:00

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-03-14 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-03-14 00:00:00

CSR report 2022

Annual report
2023-03-14 00:00:00 | ANZ
2023-01-27 00:00:00

Background briefing: Just 7% of global banks' energy financing goes to renewables, new data shows

BankTrack publication
2023-01-27 00:00:00 | Profundo for Sierra Club, Fair Finance International, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
2022-11-25 00:00:00

Approach to Climate Change 2022

Bank policy
2022-11-25 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-17 00:00:00

BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

BankTrack publication
2022-11-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Water Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Hydroelectric Power Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Forestry and Forests Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-01 00:00:00

Military Equipment Policy

Bank policy
2022-11-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-07-31 00:00:00

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy

Bank policy
2022-07-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-07-13 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to ANZ on RIO TINTOʼS JADAR LITHIUM MINE, SERBIA

Correspondence
2022-07-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack and Mars se Drine
2022-06-03 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack, 350.org, Bank on our Future and Uplift to 25 banks on Shell's proposed Jackdaw gas field

Correspondence
2022-06-03 00:00:00 | BankTrack, 350.org, Bank on our Future and Uplift
2022-05-31 00:00:00

Human rights statement

Bank policy
2022-05-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-05-31 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policy

Bank policy
2022-05-31 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-03-30 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2022

Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021
BankTrack publication
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, urgewald
2022-01-14 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to BankTrack and Mars se Drine on lithium mining in Serbia’s Jadar Valley

Correspondence
2022-01-14 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-12-16 00:00:00

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2021-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-12-16 00:00:00

CSR Report 2021

Annual report
2021-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-12-14 00:00:00

Actions speak louder: Assessing bank responses to human rights violations

BankTrack publication
2021-12-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2021-12-12 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on lithium mining in Serbia’s jadar valley

Correspondence
2021-12-12 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2021-11-30 00:00:00

Land Acquisition Position Statement

Bank policy
2021-11-30 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-11-23 00:00:00

Climate change commitment

Bank policy
2021-11-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-09-23 00:00:00

Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-02-25 00:00:00

Open Letter from over 260 civil society organisations to banks on EACOP

NGO document
2021-02-25 00:00:00 | 263 CSOs
2021-02-01 00:00:00

CSR report 2020

Annual report
2021-02-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2021-01-26 00:00:00

Annual Report 2020

Annual report
2021-01-26 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-11-19 00:00:00

Letter to banks and investors on Indofood labor exploitation

NGO document
2020-11-19 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
2020-11-06 00:00:00

ANZ 2020 ESG Supplement

Other bank document
2020-11-06 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-10-29 00:00:00

Carbon policy

Bank policy
2020-10-29 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-03-24 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-03-24 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-03-24 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-03-24 00:00:00 | ANZ
2020-03-24 00:00:00

Climate related financial disclosures

Other bank document
2020-03-24 00:00:00 | ANZ
2019-12-10 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to ANZ on the bank's progress on its fossil fuel finance since COP24

Correspondence
2019-12-10 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2019-03-26 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-03-26 00:00:00 | ANZ
2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-1

Other document
2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission
2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-2

Other document
2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission
2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-3

Other document
2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission
2018-12-18 00:00:00

2018 Sustainability Review

Annual report
2018-12-18 00:00:00 | ANZ
2018-12-17 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to BankTrack and OECDWatch on ANCP report regarding Phnom Penh Sugar

2nd response to October 29th letter
Correspondence
2018-12-17 00:00:00 | ANZ
2018-12-10 00:00:00

Bank Policy Matrix

NGO document
2018-12-10 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance Coalition
2018-11-26 00:00:00

Bankrolling the climate crisis

Aotearoa’s financial ties to the fossil fuel industry
NGO document
2018-11-26 00:00:00 | 350.org New Zealand
2018-11-08 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to BankTrack and OECDWatch on ANCP report regarding Phnom Penh Sugar

Response to October 29th letter
Correspondence
2018-11-08 00:00:00 | ANZ
2018-10-29 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and OECD Watch to ANZ on Compensation for Families Displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar

Correspondence
2018-10-29 00:00:00 | BankTrack and OECD Watch
2018-10-16 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to ANZ on Demands FBNT campaign

Correspondence
2018-10-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack and 120 organisations
2018-05-31 00:00:00

2° Scorecard - Are Australia's big four banks living up to their climate commitments?

NGO document
2018-05-31 00:00:00 | Market Forces
2018-04-26 00:00:00

Annual Report 2017

Annual report
2018-04-26 00:00:00 | ANZ
2018-04-26 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2017

Annual report
2018-04-26 00:00:00 | ANZ
2018-02-28 00:00:00

How banks contribute to human rights violations: responses to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

NGO document
2018-02-28 00:00:00 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2018-01-15 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, BankTrack on How banks contribute to human rights violations

Correspondence
2018-01-15 00:00:00 | ANZ
2017-05-23 00:00:00

Annual Report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2017-05-23 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2017-01-31 00:00:00

Sime Darby urged to resolve long-standing land rights conflict before stock exchange listing of its plantation division

NGO document
2017-01-31 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK & Profundo
2017-01-17 00:00:00

Dirty Bankers

How HSBC is financing forest destruction for palm oil
NGO document
2017-01-17 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2016-12-16 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Practice

Bank policy
2016-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ
2016-11-17 00:00:00

Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy

Bank policy
2016-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ
2016-09-23 00:00:00

Health and Safety Policy

Bank policy
2016-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2015-12-08 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2015

Annual report
2015-12-08 00:00:00 | ANZ
2015-11-09 00:00:00

Annual Report 2015

Annual report
2015-11-09 00:00:00 | ANZ
2015-02-16 00:00:00

Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia - Executive Summary

NGO document
2015-02-16 00:00:00 | TuK, Profundo
2014-12-05 00:00:00

Corporate Social Responsibility Review 2014

Annual report
2014-12-05 00:00:00 | ANZ
2014-12-01 00:00:00

Annual Report 2014

Annual report
2014-12-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2014-06-27 00:00:00

Failure to Restore: An Assessment of the Impacts of the Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Dam Projects on Downstream Communities in Laos

NGO document
2014-06-27 00:00:00 | International Rivers
2014-04-30 00:00:00

Banking on Shaky Ground

Australia's big four banks and land grabs
NGO document
2014-04-30 00:00:00 | Oxfam
2014-01-01 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2013

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00 | ANZ
2013-05-10 00:00:00

CR Report 2013

Interim Report
Annual report
2013-05-10 00:00:00 | ANZ
2013-05-02 00:00:00

Financing Reef Destruction

How banks are using our money to destroy a natural icon
NGO document
2013-05-02 00:00:00 | Market Forces
2013-02-21 00:00:00

2012 Annual Report

Right place right time
Annual report
2013-02-21 00:00:00 | ANZ
2012-06-20 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

NGO document
2012-06-20 00:00:00 | IKV Pax Christi & FairFin
2012-06-14 00:00:00

Annual report 2011

Annual report
2012-06-14 00:00:00 | ANZ
2012-05-25 00:00:00

CR Report 2012

Interim report
Annual report
2012-05-25 00:00:00 | ANZ
2012-05-14 00:00:00

2011 shareholder and corporate responsibility review

Annual report
2012-05-14 00:00:00 | ANZ
2011-11-17 00:00:00

Shareholder and corporate responsibility report 2010

Annual report
2011-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ
2010-12-18 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to EPFIs on issues around Equator Principles Review process

Correspondence
2010-12-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack
2010-09-07 00:00:00

Australian banks financing coal and renewable energy

NGO document
2010-09-07 00:00:00 | Profundo for Greenpeace Australia Pacific
2010-04-27 00:00:00

Close the Gap

Benchmarking investment policies of international banks
BankTrack publication
2010-04-27 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2010-02-24 00:00:00

Open Appeal to ANZ, Standard Bank and BNP Paribas: Stay away from the Toka Tindung gold mine on Sulawesi!

Correspondence
2010-02-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack, et. al.
2009-10-01 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS, a shared responsibility

NGO document
2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, et. al.
2008-07-23 00:00:00

Future Financing Energy

Other bank document
2008-07-23 00:00:00 | ANZ
2008-03-25 00:00:00

Future Financing for Forests

Other bank document
2008-03-25 00:00:00 | ANZ
2007-10-25 00:00:00

WWF statement on ANZ and the Tasmanian pulp mill

NGO document
2007-10-25 00:00:00 | WWF-Australia

ANZ - Australia’s climate change laggard

Market Forces campaign page

Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry

Market Forces' campaign on Australian banks

Financial Exclusions Tracker

Bank is listed in Financial Exclusions Tracker, which lists companies that have been publically excluded by financial institutions, for reasons ranging from human rights violations to environmental impact and corruption.

Accountability
Grievances
Response tracking

ANZ launched a detailed grievance handling process in November 2021 in a first for the banking sector. The Grievance Mechanism Framework and complaint submission form are available here.

Contact us if you would like to discuss BankTrack support for a complaint to ANZ's grievance mechanism.

ANZ is an Equator Principles signatory. While the Equator Principles have no official grievance mechanism, complaints relating to this bank's financing of Equator Principles projects can be filed through our own website www.equator-complaints.org.

This page evaluates ANZ's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

Impacts reviewed
Responded?
Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring
Santos' Barossa gas project, Australia (July 2023)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
It was reported in June 2024 that the bank had rejected the complaint, on the basis that the bank may only accept a complaint where “the customer consents to the disclosure of a current or former lending relationship and to participate.” This disappointing outcome points to a severe limitation of the bank’s mechanism, and the need for the development of grievance mechanisms to be accompanied by a change to banks’ onboarding processes.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank has not stated whether it engaged with its client or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
Equity Generation Lawyers, Bank Responses to Human Rights Grievances report, July 2023
Banks and Dirty Diesel: Vitol and Trafigura (May 2017)
1
0.5
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly responded acknowledging its link to the impact, however it did not comment on or respond to the substance of the issues raised.
Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank stated that it had engaged with the companies and is "satisfied they understand their responsibilities to respect human rights, and are seeking to engage on the issue using whatever leverage they have". The bank did not state whether it required the company to take specific actions or if the bank itself took appropriate action.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
BankTrack Human Rights Briefing, May 2017
Rio Tinto's Jadar mine, Serbia (December 2021)
1
0.5
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank's response confirms that it has engaged with the commpany, but does not comment on the substance of the issues raised.
Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank states that it has engaged with the company, and comments on the result of the engagement. Tthe bank states is "satisfied" that the client understands its responsibilities. However it does not set out any specific actions or requitements discussed with the company.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information to indicate the bank is monitoring the actions of its clients, or actions it might itself have taken in response to the impacts raised.
More info
Letter to financiers of Rio Tinto, December 2021
JSW Utkal steel and coal, India (February 2025)
0
0
0
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank did not respond.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information is available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
n/a
Rationale for score
The impact was not raised over a year ago and therefore is not scored on monitoring progress.
More info
International CSOs call on banks to rule out finance for controversial Indian steel and coal project, March 2025
Impacts of Indonesia’s state electricity company PLN (March 2025)
0
0
0
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank's response neither acknowledges its link to the impact, nor addresses the issues raised.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information is available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
n/a
Rationale for score
The impact was not raised over a year ago and therefore is not scored on monitoring progress.
More info
See the letter we sent the bank here.

Average
80%
0.4
0.2
0.2
0
Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that ANZ provided US$ 25.276 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2023. In 2023 only, ANZ provided US$ 176 Million for oil, gas and coal companies expanding fossil fuels. Find further details on ANZ fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on Fossil Banks No Thanks and in the Banking on Climate Chaos report.

Fossil fuel finance data ANZ

Banking on Climate Chaos finance data panel

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance tracks the coal, oil and gas policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool (CPT) and the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker (OGPT). BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of ANZ’s fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of ANZ in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker

Assessment of ANZ in the Coal Policy Tool

False Solutions Tracker expansion

BankLast update
Country
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Energy grids and storage
Hydropower
Hydrogen
Solid Biomass
Biofuels
CCUS
Nuclear Power
Details
ANZ
2025-05-19
AUS
0
1100100000000
Australia
Profile
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Energy grids and storage
Hydropower
Hydrogen
Solid Biomass
Biofuels
CCUS
Nuclear Power
20250519
Last update: 2025-05-19
Explanation

Assisting customers to shift to a net-zero carbon economy: Target to fund and facilitate at least A$100 billion by the end of 2030 towards improving social and environmental outcomes for our customers.

By the end of 2024 ANZ funded and facilitated $38.96bn across 226 transactions since the target commenced on 1 April 2023. In 2024 alone, ANZ funded and facilitated $30.17bn across 172 transactions, of which $16.09bn was attributed to ANZ via on-balance sheet loans and other credit lines, while close to $14.08bn was facilitated by ANZ. (p.28 - ESG supplement 2024)

$3.73bn in Energy (funded in 2024)
$3.56b in Energy (facilitated in 2024)

Relevant policies
2024-11-06 00:00:00

SDG Bond Framework

Bank policy
2024-11-06 00:00:00
References
2024-11-8

ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures

2024-11-8
Explanation

The purpose of the False Solutions Tracker is to give a clear overview of energy technologies that fall under banks' individual sustainable finance commitments. The tracker lists 11 energy technologies that are usually associated with the energy transition and the decarbonisation of the economy. These technologies are defined here and classified in three categories:

  1. Real solutions: Technologies that deliver on a Just Transition towards Energy Democracy. BankTrack considers these technologies as real solutions only if and when they do deliver Energy Democracy.

  2. Solutions under strict conditions: Energy technologies that could be real solutions if they deliver on a Just Transition towards Energy Democracy but that could also be false solutions. This is the case of hydrogen and hydropower. On one hand, fossil-free and green hydrogen could be a real solution under certain conditions. However, fossil-based hydrogen and nuclear hydrogen are always false solutions. On the other hand, hydropower lifespan extension could also be a real solution under strict conditions while hydropower expansion is a false solution.

  3. False solutions: Energy technologies that are not aligned with a just transition towards Energy Democracy.

For each one of the 11 energy technologies, the tracker indicates if it is included in bank's individual sustainable finance commitments:

 

For Real solutions:

  • ​​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting, but under certain conditions. In this case, those conditions are mentioned in the "relevant policy document" section for each bank.
  • ​: No, the bank does not include its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​ : It is unclear whether the bank includes or not its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.

 

For solutions under strict conditions and for false solutions:

  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting, but under certain conditions. In this case, those conditions are mentioned in the "relevant policy document" section for each bank.
  • ​: No, the bank does not include its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: It is unclear whether the bank includes or not its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
For more details see this page.
Banks and Human Rights

Banks and Human Rights

BankTrack assessed ANZ in its 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark, where it achieved 9 points out of 15 and was ranked as a “moderate achiever”.

The bank scored 1 out of 3 points on the new “specific rights indicators”, which assess how banks address human rights defenders, Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent and environmental rights in their policies and practices.

In addition, ANZ scored 0.67 out of 3 on how it responds to alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, which were raised by civil society organisations. More information is detailed in the “Accountability” section of this profile.

The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark

The table below shows BankTrack's assessment of how ANZ  has implemented the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Please click on 'expand all details' and 'explanation' for further information on the methodology.

Our policy assessments are always a work in progress. We very much welcome any feedback, especially from banks included in the assessments. Please get in touch at humanrights@banktrack.org.

Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
ANZ
AUS
8.5
Front runner 8.5
0
Australia
Score
Front runner
8.5
Explanation

ANZ's human rights policies, processes and reporting were assessed as part of the BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022. The bank is assessed as a Front runner, with a total score of 8.5 out of 14.

Policy: 3/3
Due dilligence: 2.5/5
Reporting: 1.5/3
Remedy: 1.5/3


Response Tracking:
The bank was also assessed on its responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations, for which it received an average score of 1/3. See the Response Tracking section of this profile for more details.

Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 6.5 points
7 - 10 points
10.5 - 14 points
For more details see this page.

Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
ANZ
AUS
9
Moderate achiever 9
0
Australia
Score
Moderate achiever
9
Explanation

ANZ's human rights policies, processes and reporting were assessed as part of the BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024. The bank is assessed as a , with a total score of 9 out of 15.

Policy: 3/3
Due dilligence: 2.5/5
Reporting: 1.5/4
Remedy: 2/3

Specific rights: 1/3

Response Tracking:
The bank was also assessed on its responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations, for which it received an average score of 0.67/3. See the Response Tracking section of this profile for more details.

Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Moderate achiever
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 7 points
7.5 - 10.5 points
11 - 15 points
For more details see this page.
Banks and Nature

Banks and Nature

ANZ's policies for forest-risk sectors (beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber) have been assessed by the Forests & Finance coalition, achieving an overall score of 3.9 out of 10 and ranking it as a follower. ANZ achieved a score of 0 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 3.6 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. Between 2016 and 2022, ANZ provided USD 985 million in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors. For more information, see the links below.

Forests & Finance

Banks and beef

Banks and palm oil

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
ANZ
2022-10-18
AUS
3.9
Follower 3.9
0
Australia
Profile
Score
Follower
3.9
20221018
Last update: 2022-10-18
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the main forest-risk commodity sectors (Beef, Palm Oil, Soy, Timber, Pulp and Paper, and Rubber). Weighted scores are based on the scope of ANZ's relevant policies, taking into account different types of financing and the sectors in which the bank is active. Details about the scores per sector policy can be found on ANZ's profile.

Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its policies. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Beef

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
ANZ
2022-10-17
AUS
0
Laggard 0
0
Australia
Profile
Score
Laggard
0
20221017
Last update: 2022-10-17
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the bank's policies related to beef. Weighted scores are based on the scope of relevant policies, taking into account what types and how much finance the bank provides to companies active in the beef industry. Details of the criteria used to assess the policies and scores for other forest-risk commodity sectors can be found on ANZ's profile.

Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its beef policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Palm Oil

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
ANZ
2022-09-21
AUS
3.6
Follower 3.6
0
Australia
Profile
Score
Follower
3.6
20220921
Last update: 2022-09-21
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the bank's policies related to palm oil. Weighted scores are based on the scope of ABN AMRO's relevant policies, taking into account what types and how much finance the bank provides to companies active in the palm oil industry. Details of the criteria used to assess the policies and scores for other forest-risk commodity sectors can be found on ANZ's profile.

Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its palm oil policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
Tracking the NZBA

Tracking the Net Zero Banking Alliance

ANZ is a member of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and has therefore committed to reduce its financed emissions to net zero by 2050; within 18 months of joining the alliance set interim targets for 2030 (or sooner) for high emission priority sectors, and within 36 months set further sector targets; set new intermediary targets every 5 years from 2030 onwards; annually publish data on emissions and progress against a transition strategy including climate-related sectoral policies; and take a robust approach to the role of offsets in transition plans. BankTrack track's implementation of these commitments in the NZBA compliance tracker.

Tracking NZBA banks commitments

Banks and Russia

Banks and Russian Aggression in Ukraine

BankTrack is keeping track of the public response of ANZ to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. ANZ's public position on the war is unclear. We consider its exposure to Russia as limited. For further details, see the table linked below.

Bank responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Banks and Steel

Banks and Steel

As part of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), ANZ is required to set interim targets for 2030 for high emission priority sectors. For ANZ, this includes its lending to the steel sector. You can see ANZ’s iron and steel decarbonisation targets, and its progress towards meeting them in our NZBA steel targets compliance tracker:

NZBA Iron & Steel Targets

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance’s 2023 report on metallurgical coal financing showed that ANZ provided US$ 2.9 billion in loans and underwriting to developers of new metallurgical coal between 2016 and 2022. Find further details on ANZ’s metallurgical coal financing and and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report.

Reclaim Finance also tracks the metallurgical coal policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool. BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of ANZ metallurgical coal policy below.

Metallurgical Coal Financing: Time to call it off 2023

Coal policy tool

Good Moves

Good moves

Year:

2025

13 banks will not finance Papua LNG

Thanks to Japanese bank MUFG, TotalEnergies is developing a new climate bomb in Papua New Guinea: the “Papua LNG” liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which will lead to the emission of over 220 million tonnes of CO2.  This project confirms TotalEnergies’ intention to establish itself in Papua…

2021

ANZ launches human rights grievance mechanism in a first for the global banking sector

Australia’s ANZ Bank today launched a Grievance Mechanism Framework to evaluate and respond to human rights related complaints associated with its corporate lending customers. This precedent-setting move makes ANZ the first large commercial bank in the world to adopt a human rights policy that gives communities harmed…

ANZ rules out supporting East African Crude Oil Pipeline

The bank provided a statement making clear it will not support the East African Crude Oil Pipeline after an open letter endorsed by 263 organizations from around the world was sent to 25 banks considered most likely to be approached for financing.

2020

ANZ agrees to landmark settlement with Cambodian farmers displaced by sugar company it financed

ANZ has agreed to provide a financial package to Cambodian families forcibly displaced by a sugar company the Australian bank loaned money to in 2011. By agreeing to contribute the money that it earned from the loan to the families, ANZ has set a human rights precedent for the global banking sector. The money…

2010

Banks abandon Gunns Pulp and Paper Mill

More than 15 leading banks around the world, including all Australian banks, publicly declined to finance the controversial Gunns Pulp and Paper Mill after sustained campaigning from BankTrack, the Wilderness Society and others. In 2008 Australian bank ANZ became the first bank to publicly renounce financing the project.…
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