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About
Website http://www.anz.com.au
Headquarters
833 Collins Street, Docklands
3008 Melbourne
Australia
CEO/chair Shayne Elliott
CEO
Supervisor
Reserve Bank of Australia
Ownership
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.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

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:

2023-11-12 00:00:00

Energy Policy

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

Extractives Industry Policy

Bank policy
2023-11-12 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-25 00:00:00

Approach to Climate Change 2022

Bank policy
2022-11-25 00:00:00 | ANZ
2022-11-02 00:00:00

ESG Supplement

Bank policy
2022-11-02 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
2021-09-30 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement 2021

Bank policy
2021-09-30 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
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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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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
Blog
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Westpac takes two steps forward, one big step back

2023-11-08 | Market Forces
Blog
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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
Blog
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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
Blog
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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
Blog
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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
Blog
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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
Blog
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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
Blog
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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

BankTrack quoted
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