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Website https://www.bayernlb.com/internet/en/blb/resp/index.jsp
Headquarters
Brienner Straße 18
80333 München
Germany
CEO/chair Stephan Winkelmeier
CEO
Supervisor
Deutsche Bundesbank
Ownership

BayernLB shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria (80%) and the Association of the Bavarian Savings Banks (20%). BayernLB's structure can be accessed here.

The Bayerische Landesbank is a German publicly regulated bank, founded in 1972. It is one of the eight Landesbanken. As a commercial bank, BayernLB offers financial services in private, industrial, investment and foreign business. As a state and municipal bank, BayernLB is responsible for credit and financial counsel for the state of Bavaria and its municipalities and districts. Through its subsidiaries, the bank is involved in a variety of other business areas: the Bayerische Landesbodenkreditanstalt is an organ of state housing policy, while the LBS Bayern is a public building society (Bausparkasse). Through its full ownership of the Deutsche Kreditbank, based in Berlin, BayernLB is also involved in retail banking.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

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

Links

Environmental and climate protection

Corporate sustainability

2024-11-15 00:00:00

Guiding principles for transformation

Bank policy
2024-11-15 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Sustainability and environmental policy

Bank policy
2023-01-31 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2022-10-31 00:00:00

Sustainable lending framework

Bank policy
2022-10-31 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2022-05-03 00:00:00

Sustainability Standards

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2022-05-03 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-07-13 00:00:00

Sustainability agreement for suppliers and external service providers

Bank policy
2018-07-13 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-06-12 00:00:00

Statement on modern slavery and human trafficking

Bank policy
2018-06-12 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-04-30 00:00:00

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2018-04-30 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-01-15 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering policy

Bank policy
2018-01-15 00:00:00 | BayernLB
BayernLB has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Impact on Sustainable AviationTags: aviation
Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)Tags: carbon | corporate social responsibility
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Tags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development | United Nations
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Dodgy Deals

BayernLB 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 BayernLB's link to these deals.

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Banks urged to refuse MUFG’s call to finance Papua LNG

2024-12-18 | ActionAid Australia, Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Friends of the Earth Japan, Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Market Forces, Reclaim Finance
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Fair Finance Guide 8.0: Banken-Check findet Fortschritte bei Transparenz und Nachhaltigkeit, deckt aber auch neue Defizite auf

2024-11-28 | Facing Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Null Bock auf Netto Null – Deutsche Banken und Versicherer kommen völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen und Zielen des Pariser Klimaabkommens nicht ausreichend nach und gefährden Klimaziele

2024-11-13 | Facing Finance
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Fair Finance Guide 7.0

Viele Banken bessern ihre Nachhaltigkeitsrichtlinien verfügen aber häufig über zu schwache bzw. ungenügende Richtlinien zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels
2023-03-23 | Fair Finance Guide Germany
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European financial institutions heavily invested in companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements

725 European Financial Institutions found to provide billions of dollars in finance to companies operating in Israel's illegal settlement enterprise
2022-12-05 | Brussels | Don't Buy Into Occupation
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Faires Geld braucht die Welt

Neue ÖPNV-Infokampagne in NRW für mehr Nachhaltigkeit im Bankensektor
2022-12-02 | lifePR
Blog
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Launching of Banking Responsibility Research on Cement Industry Financing

2022-05-25 | Fair Finance Asia, Prakarsa - Welfare Initiative for Better Societies
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Eyes closed, costs down, profits up

Dirty Profits 9 published today by Facing Finance
2022-05-18 | Berlin | Facing Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

NGOs reveal top international companies, banks, and investors that fuel Russia's war machine

2022-04-04 | Berlin | urgewald, Ecodefense
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Coal finance: Germany's top banks face pressure to tighten lending policies

BankTrack mentioned
2021-11-04 | S&P Global
Blog
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New report exposes billions in European financial support to companies in illegal Israeli settlements

2021-09-29 | Don't Buy Into Occupation
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

28 major banks warned not to finance Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

Over 20 Indigenous and environmental groups deliver urgent letter.
2017-06-09 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, others
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BayernLB zieht sich aus Pipeline-Finanzierung zurück

2017-02-24 | Welt.de
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Six banks step away from Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and backers

2017 | BankTrack
Resources
Documents
Links
2024-11-15 00:00:00

Guiding principles for transformation

Bank policy
2024-11-15 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2024-11-13 00:00:00

Highway zur Klimahölle

Machen deutsche Banken den Weg frei?
NGO document
2024-11-13 00:00:00 | Facing Finance
2024-04-16 00:00:00

Annual report 2023

Annual report
2024-04-16 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2023-05-04 00:00:00

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-05-04 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Sustainability and environmental policy

Bank policy
2023-01-31 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2022-10-31 00:00:00

Sustainable lending framework

Bank policy
2022-10-31 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2022-05-03 00:00:00

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-05-03 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2022-05-03 00:00:00

Sustainability Standards

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2022-05-03 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2021-09-14 00:00:00

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-09-14 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2021-05-07 00:00:00

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-05-07 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2020-08-04 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-08-04 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2020-05-12 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-05-12 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2019-05-14 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-05-14 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-07-13 00:00:00

Sustainability agreement for suppliers and external service providers

Bank policy
2018-07-13 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-07-13 00:00:00

Annual report 2017

Annual report
2018-07-13 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-06-12 00:00:00

Statement on modern slavery and human trafficking

Bank policy
2018-06-12 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-04-30 00:00:00

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2018-04-30 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2018-01-15 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering policy

Bank policy
2018-01-15 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2017-06-06 00:00:00

Letter from RAN and 13 others to 14 banks that underwrote Kinder Morgan Canada IPO on warning to finance the IPO

Correspondence
2017-06-06 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network et al
2017-05-01 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-01 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2016-12-09 00:00:00

Letter from BayernLB to BankTrack on Dakota Access Pipeline

Correspondence
2016-12-09 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2016-11-30 00:00:00

Letter from 500 organisations to BayernLB on financing DAPL

Correspondence
2016-11-30 00:00:00 | 500 organisations
2015-04-09 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2014

Annual report
2015-04-09 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2014-06-01 00:00:00

Umwelterklärung 2014

Annual report
2014-06-01 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2014-01-01 00:00:00

Annual Report 2013

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00
2013-04-14 00:00:00

Annual Report 2012

Annual report
2013-04-14 00:00:00 | BayernLB
2013-02-27 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2011

Annual report
2013-02-27 00:00:00 | BayernLB

Bayern LB's webpage on corporate social responsibility

Positions and strategies webpage

Open letter to financiers - Call to commit not to support the Papua LNG project

Accountability
Grievances

BayernLB does not operate a complaints or grievances mechanism for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates BayernLB'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

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Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

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 BayernLB’s fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of BayernLB's coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of BayernLB's polices in the Oil & Gas Policy Tracker

Good Moves

Good moves

Year:

2017

Six banks step away from Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and backers

In February 2017, ABN AMRO, ING, BayernLB and Nordea all announced they would step away from financing either the project or its backers. In March, ING became the first bank to sell its portion of a project loan supporting the pipeline. This was followed by DNB and by BNP Paribas selling…
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