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Website http://www.bnpparibas.com/en
Headquarters
16, boulevard des Italiens
75009 Paris
France
CEO/chair Jean-Laurent Bonnafé
Director and CEO
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Banque de France
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listed on NYSE

BNP Paribas' shareholder structure can be accessed here.
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BNP Paribas is one of the main banks in Europe. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. Together with Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais it is one of the 'three old banks' of France. BNP Paribas is an universal bank and operates in three main business areas: retail banking, corporate investment banking and investment solutions.

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

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Financing and investment policies

Responsible Business Conduct Policy

Bank policy
2024-11-24 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas Asset Management

Human Rights Statement

Bank policy
2024-07-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Statement on Human Rights

Bank policy
2024-07-01 00:00:00 | BNP PARIBAS

Sector Policy - Mining

Bank policy
2023-11-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas details and strengthens its energy transition ambitions

Bank policy
2023-05-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy Oil & Gas

Bank policy
2023-05-10 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy - Coal-fired power generation

Bank policy
2023-02-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-12-17 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Policy on biodiversity

Bank policy
2021-05-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Policy on deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado regions

Bank policy
2021-02-15 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Anti-corruption policy

Bank policy
2020-07-14 00:00:00

Statement on ocean protection

Bank policy
2019-09-23 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector policy - nuclear power

Bank policy
2019-03-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Responsible Business Conduct Policy

Bank policy
2019-03-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Modern Slavery and human trafficking Statement

Bank policy
2019-02-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Financial security program

Bank policy
2018-05-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Exclusion list

Bank policy
2018-03-02 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Defence and security sector policy

Bank policy
2017-12-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Unconventional Oil and Gas - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2017-12-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Position on the tobacco industry

Bank policy
2017-11-24 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Commitments to the environment

Bank policy
2017-10-17 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy - Palm oil

Bank policy
2017-05-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Coal-Fired Power Generation Sector Policy

Bank policy
2017-02-08 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Suppliers' CSR Charter

Bank policy
2016-05-09 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Agriculture Sector Policy

Bank policy
2015-12-08 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Commitments regarding the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing

Bank policy
2014-05-27 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Nuclear Power - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2013-07-26 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Oil Sands - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2013-07-26 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Goods and activities on exclusion list

Bank policy
2011-12-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy - Wood Pulp

Bank policy
2011-09-13 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Klimaschutz-Selbstverpflichtung des FinanzsektorsTags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance
Banking Environment InitiativeTags:
Business for Social ResponsibilityTags: corporate social responsibility
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Collective Commitment to Climate Action (CCCA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | United Nations
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Green Bond PrinciplesTags: bond issuance | investment | sustainable development
IFC - Operating Principles for Impact ManagementTags: investment
Japan Climate Initiative (JCI)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility
Montreal Carbon Pledge Tags: carbon | climate change
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
Observatoire de la responsabilité sociétale des enterprises (ORSE)Tags: corporate social responsibility
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA)Tags: corporate social responsibility
Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF)Tags: biodiversity | corporate social responsibility
Pegasus GuidelinesTags: aviation | corporate social responsibility
Poseidon PrinciplesTags: corporate social responsibility | shipping
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
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)Tags: agriculture | commodities | corporate social responsibility
Science Based TargetsTags: climate change | corporate social responsibility
Soft Commodities CompactTags: Deforestation | forest
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
UN Guiding Principles Reporting FrameworkTags: United Nations | human rights
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Wolfsberg PrinciplesTags: finance | corruption
Dodgy Deals

BNP Paribas 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 BNP Paribas'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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UK banks’ transition plans “not fit for purpose” – regulation needed

None of the 20 biggest UK and European banks has a credible transition plan to align its business with a 1.5°C aligned trajectory
2025-04-29 | Reclaim Finance
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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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European groups ask BNP Paribas to include ambitious targets for storage & grids in energy transition plan

Banks need to set clear, ambitious financing targets for storage & grids
2025-04-14 | BankTrack, urgewald, Cittadini Sostenibili, Coal Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction
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2024 saw six new banks committing to end finance for metallurgical coal, and an explosion in commitments to decarbonise steel portfolios

2025-03-31 | BankTrack
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Ditching net zero is a dangerous gamble for Japan’s megabanks

MUFG and SMBC’s UN climate exit signals a troubling retreat from sustainability
2025-03-27 | Market Forces
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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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Why sustainable finance targets could mask climate inaction?

Sustainable finance targets should not be mistaken for evidence of climate action, nor should they be compared with fossil fuel financing.
2025-03-13 | Reclaim Finance
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New report: "At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers”

2025-02-18 | ICAN, PAX
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Seven underwriters of “war bonds” instrumental in enabling Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds

Banks have underwritten Israeli government-issued bonds to the value of $19.4 billion since October 7th, 2023
2025-02-14 | BankTrack, PAX, Profundo
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These seven banks have supplied Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the tune of $20bn

Seven US and European investment banks have been propping up Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza to the tune of nearly $20bn. And a certain notorious company in particular is dripping in bankrolling complicity: Goldman Sachs.
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2025-02-14 | The Canary
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Adaro’s rebrand: a fresh green look for the same dirty coal business

Why banks should still steer clear of the new PT Alamtri Resources Indonesia
2025-02-05 | Camilla Perotti – BankTrack
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13 banks will not finance Papua LNG

2025-02-03 | Defund TotalEnergies
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Without tackling plastic finance, we walk on a dead-end road

2025-01-29 | Manon Stravens - Profundo
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Demand for UN & Climate Banking Alliance to enforce commitments following Goldman Sachs exit

Climate and community groups have written to the United Nations and the NZBA following Goldman Sachs’ exit from the alliance and backsliding by Morgan Stanley.
2024-12-18 | Stand.earth
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Frontline communities urge investors not to buy new ArcelorMittal bonds due to human rights, environmental and climate concerns

2024-12-16 | BankTrack, Fair Steel Coalition
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Adaro’s coal spin-off: growing a climate conscience or simple greenwashing?

Indonesia’s coal giant Adaro is desperately trying to show itself as a leader in energy transition, but investors should remain cautious of reputational and financial risks.
2024-11-28 | Apekshita Varshney - Eko, Camilla Perotti – BankTrack
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Adaro forced to sell its thermal coal business unit facing difficulties in raising finance

2024-11-28 | Jakarta | BankTrack
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BNP Paribas AM will no longer invest in new oil and gas company bonds

2024-11-27 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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JPMorgan Chase’s Energy Financing Ratio: transparency is welcome, but targets needed

While the bank’s transparency is noteworthy, the methodology is not perfect, notably in terms of the technologies included
2024-11-25 | Reclaim Finance
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Major ‘coal banks’ refuse to stop financing coal power boom in Asia

To stop a wave of new coal development across Asia, the End Coal Finance coalition is asking likely financiers to pledge not to back new coal power projects.
2024-11-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Inclusive Development International, Recourse
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The 2024 Global Oil & Gas Exit List: More loss and damage ahead

2023 highest level of oil and gas production in history; 95% of oil and gas companies still expanding; LNG import terminal capacity set to increase by 57%
2024-11-12 | Berlin | urgewald
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Banks ready to finance false solutions to the climate crisis

BankTrack’s new False Solutions Tracker, mapping bank definitions of renewables, finds that most banks include ‘false solutions’ within their sustainable/green finance targets.
2024-11-11 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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European banks channel $230bn to fossil fuel expansion

Banks using transition finance ‘to maintain business as usual’ with fossil fuel companies, non-profits claim
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2024-11-08 | The Banker
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European banks’ on-going support for fossil fuels is blocking energy transition

2024-11-07 | Reclaim Finance
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Banks’ low-ambition and incoherent climate targets put net zero goals at risk – new ShareAction analysis

2024-11-05 | ShareAction
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As the world chokes in plastic, banks continue to finance plastic production

New research reveals a lack of bank policies dealing with the impact of plastics on climate, nature and humans
2024-10-17 | Amsterdam | BankTrack, Plastic Soup Foundation, Profundo
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Major banks fueling biodiversity collapse by $395 billion since the Paris Agreement; Governments failing to reign in banks

New reports reveal escalating financing to destructive sectors and highlight the urgent need for financial sector regulations to achieve Global Biodiversity Goals
2024-10-16 | San Francisco | BankTrack, Amazon Watch, CED Cameroon, Friends of the Earth US, Milieudefensie, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network, Repórter Brasil, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, TuK INDONESIA
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French banks haven’t turned their backs on coal

Reclaim Finance’s analysis reveals that French banks continued to finance companies that are still developing new coal mines or power plants.
2024-10-15 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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Activists across the globe call on banks and investors to stop financing TotalEnergies

2024-10-02 | New York/Frankfurt/Paris | 350.org US, Justiça Ambiental (JA!)/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Liveable Arlington
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TotalEnergies and financial markets: Financial institutions engaged for decades of pollution

2024-09-30 | Reclaim Finance
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World’s biggest banks pledge support for nuclear power

Names including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs boost COP28 goal of tripling capacity by 2050
2024-09-23 | Financial Times
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ING strengthens climate commitments, further restricts finance for oil and gas

The Dutch bank makes important strides forward, but real-world impact may be limited
2024-09-20 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Banks must overhaul climate targets to deliver emissions cuts, new analysis finds

Reclaim Finance is urging banks to rethink their targets, and in particular to jettison the widely used “financed emissions” and “facilitated emissions” targets.
2024-09-19 | Reclaim Finance
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“Greenlaundering” hiding true scale of banks’ lending to fossil fuel companies

Two-thirds of bank’s fossil fuel financing made through tax havens specialising in secrecy
2024-09-11 | Tax Justice Network
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Banche e istituti finanziari continuano a investire nella fornitura di armi a Israele

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2024-08-06 | Valori.it
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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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Banks fail to substantially respond to communities impacted by ArcelorMittal on climate and human rights concerns

2024-07-18 | BankTrack, Fair Steel Coalition, Reclaim Finance, SteelWatch
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Pulp Fiction: the dystopian reality of the origin of your paper

A new report by Environmental Paper Network International debunks the story that paper is ‘green’ and ‘renewable’. Evidence piles up on the ecological and human impacts of the pulp expansion frenzy.  
2024-07-16 | Environmental Paper Network
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Coalition calls on European and Japanese banks to stop financing methane gas export projects on the United States Gulf Coast

2024-06-28 | BankTrack
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European financial institutions invest billions in arms companies that sell weapons to Israel

2024-06-20 | BankTrack, 11.11.11-Koepel van Internationale Solidariteit, Association France Palestine Solidarité, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Centre National de Coopération au Développement, European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine, European Legal Support Center, European Trade Union Network for Justice in Palestine, Fagforbundet - Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees, FairFin, Handel og Kontor i Norge (HK Norway), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya, Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, Norwegian People, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, PAX, The Rights Forum, Trocaire
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International banks no longer involved with Santos’ Barossa gas project

2024-06-17 | Market Forces
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Environmental and Social policies of major Amazon oil and gas financiers fail to protect the Rainforest and its peoples

New report reveals that only one of the top six banks financing oil and gas extraction in the Amazon has an effective policy to protect the region
2024-06-11 | San Francisco (Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone Lands) | Coordinating body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), Stand.earth
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BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole say no to bonds for the oil and gas sector

Within a few days of each other, BNP Paribas and then Crédit Agricole announced that they would no longer participate in issuing conventional bonds for companies involved in oil and gas extraction and production.
2024-05-31 | Reclaim Finance
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Banks fueling climate chaos: the financing of metallurgical coal mining on the rise

Coal for steel received 31.9 billion US$ of financing by banks between 2016 and 2023
2024-05-27 | Reclaim Finance
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Pair of major European banks backs away from oil and gas bond deals

French lenders Crédit Agricole and BNP shift policy as scrutiny heightens on green finance
2024-05-24 | Financial Times
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Biggest banks finance more carbon pollution than emissions of Italy, Germany, France and UK combined

New report by ReCommon exposes carbon pollution financed by the world’s biggest banks ahead of G7 finance ministers meeting
2024-05-21 | Rome, Italy | ReCommon
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BNP Paribas says no to bonds in the oil and gas sector

Reclaim Finance calls on BNP Paribas to formalize this approach by including this rule in its climate policy.
2024-05-14 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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Banks fall for ArcelorMittal’s shiny claims and finance its dirty flames

Don’t be fooled by ArcelorMittal's “low carbon” sponsorship of the Olympic Games
2024-05-08 | Julia Hovenier – BankTrack
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Banks have not quit coal, 8 years after the Paris Agreement

Banks in China dominate global coal financing; those in Indonesia are outliers in having increased finance for coal since 2016
2024-05-03 | Nijmegen | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
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The Transatlantic Battle to Stop Methane Gas Exports From South Texas

As legal efforts fall short, residents are pursuing a novel strategy to halt the building of export terminals on unspoiled wetlands: Lobby Europeans to reject gas from the U.S.
2024-04-10 | Capital & Main
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New Report: Bankrolling Ecosystem Destruction

EU banks have poured €256 billion into sectors that threaten nature and climate
2024-03-27 | Amsterdam | Greenpeace International, Harvest, Milieudefensie
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The banks financing dirty steel

The world’s major banks continue to support the largest and most polluting steel producers
2024-03-26 | Paris, France | Reclaim Finance
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UK banks urged to end finance to company behind Rosebank oil field development

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2024-03-20 | The Independent
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Banks financing company behind controversial Rosebank oil field despite climate pledges

HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and BNP Paribas are financing major North Sea oil expander Ithaca Energy, despite pledges to stop propping up new fossil fuel projects
2024-03-20 | London | BankTrack, #StopRosebank
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Still butchering the planet

The big-name financiers bankrolling livestock corporations and climate change – 2024 update
2024-03-18 | London | Feedback
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Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production
2024-03-18 | London | the Guardian
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The credit chainsaw

A review of how EU-based banks are pouring billions into deforestation
2024-03-12 | Global Witness
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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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French banks turn their backs on TotalEnergies in Papua New Guinea

2024-02-26 | Reclaim Finance
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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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The Cerrado crisis: Brazil’s deforestation frontline

Everyone knows the Amazon is in crisis. But next door, another ecological catastrophe is unfolding.
2024-02-21 | Global Witness
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New report by Global Witness "The Cerrado crisis: Brazil’s deforestation frontline"

Deforestation footprint of Brazil’s three biggest meat companies five times larger in fragile Cerrado than in Amazon
2024-02-21 | Global Witness
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Three years after attempted coup, international banks still ignore the junta’s violent capture of the Myanmar-China pipelines

2024-02-01 | BankTrack
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Asia’s top banks are still financing coal due to massive loopholes: report

Despite major Asian banks, namely in Singapore and Japan, announcing coal exclusions in recent years, growing captive coal power in Indonesia and lax restrictions on corporate finance to developers offer new coal financing “havens”, a study finds.
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2024-01-23 | Eco-Business
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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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Decarbonizing steel: ING first bank to act

2024-01-09 | BankTrack, Reclaim Finance
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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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Crédit Agricole advances on climate change, but drags its feet

Despite the adoption of ambitious decarbonization targets, the French bank has allowed room to finance new fossil fuel infrastructure projects such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, as well as companies developing new oil and gas fields or infrastructure. 
2023-12-14 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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Wall Street Makes Zero Progress in Energy Finance Transition

The industry needs to get to a 4-to-1 ratio of clean energy versus fossil-fuel financing. At the end of last year, it was 0.73 to 1—little changed from 2021.
2023-12-14 | Bloomberg
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European financial institutions continue to have extensive financial ties to companies linked to Israel’s illegal settlements

2023-12-12 | Brussels, Belgium | BankTrack, Don't Buy Into Occupation
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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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European Finance Flows fuelling the climate crisis: The role of Article 2.1c under the UNFCCC

The EU’s call for COP28 to address the world’s climate-harming financial flows not matched by its own efforts at home, research by ActionAid reveals
2023-11-30 | ActionAid
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Met coal: financial institutions’ missing policies

Since 2016, the world’s biggest banks have provided US$ 557 billion in finance to the 50 biggest developers in the metallurgical sector
2023-11-23 | Reclaim Finance
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Europe’s top 20 banks need to be clearer, cleaner and greener

Europe’s largest banks’ green finance targets and reporting risk misleading customers and investors – new ShareAction research
2023-11-22 | ShareAction
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Major European banks back mining giant Glencore's toxic legacy in Colombia and Peru

2023-11-16 | Censat, Cinep, CooperAcción, Fair Finance International, Oxfam
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The financial institutions behind the worst fossil fuel bonds in 2023

2023-11-16 | Reclaim Finance
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Complaint filed against French banks for money laundering and concealment of proceeds from illegal deforestation in the Amazon

2023-11-08 | Paris & Brasilia | Center for Climate Crime Analysis, Harvest, Sherpa, Transparency International
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Financial institutions in the EU are driving harm to the environment and human rights

2023-10-31 | WWF
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Sustainable power: banks must step up a gear

A new tracker launched today by 13 NGOs, including Reclaim Finance and BankTrack, reveals the biggest global banks do not have the basic policies and financing targets needed to support decarbonization of the power sector.
2023-10-24 | BankTrack, Bank on our Future, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Climate Action Network France, Finance Watch, Friends of the Earth France, Make My Money Matter, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon, ShareAction, Sierra Club, WWF
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Investing in Extinction - How the global financial sector profits from traditional medicine firms using threatened species

2023-10-23 | Environmental Investigation Agency
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Europe’s banks helped fossil fuel firms raise more than €1tn from global bond markets

2023-09-26 | The Guardian
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Fossil fuel companies are not slowing down. Which banks and lawyers facilitate their growth?

2023-09-26 | Follw the money
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New report and blog: Barclays' bond with Adani

For the sake of the climate, human rights - and for its own good - Barclays should cut ties with Adani after the company's recent scandals
2023-09-18 | BankTrack, The Sunrise Project
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The causes fueling the climate crisis are receiving 20 times more financing than the solutions, new groundbreaking report by ActionAid reveals

2023-09-04 | ActionAid
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Will US banks become the next target for activists fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline?

2023-08-28 | BankTrack, 7 Directions of Service, Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR), Rainforest Action Network
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UN warns Aramco and its financiers over their role in driving climate-fuelled human rights violations

2023-08-26 | ClientEarth
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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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Profits in a war zone: French banks’ Myanmar investments

As international businesses (mostly) retreat from Russia, the same ethical decision making is not applied to Myanmar’s military junta.
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2023-08-17 | Capital Monitor
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Exclusive: Banks vote to limit accounting of emissions in bond and stock sales

Banks back accounting for 33% of capital market-linked emissions. Environmental advocates push for 100% attribution. PCAF board expected to back the 33% weighting, ending delays.
2023-07-31 | Reuters
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Policy analysis report: Moving away from mass destruction

2023-07-27 | ICAN, PAX
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New research shows eight major banks responsible for majority of US$ 20 billion in financing for oil and gas companies destroying the Amazon

Banks including JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco and Banco Santander financed deals directly traced to activities in Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador
2023-07-25 | Belem, Brazil | Stand.earth
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Dozens of banks urged not to finance Rosebank oil and gas field

More than 60 organisations have jointly issued a cautionary message to Equinor's primary banking partners, advising against financing the Rosebank oil field on climate grounds.
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2023-07-10 | edie
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Six French Financial Institutions Still Investing in Myanmar Junta-Linked Firms: Report

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2023-07-07 | The Irrawdaddy
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New report names five French banks and a pension fund supporting Myanmar military junta

Crédit Agricole, Groupe BPCE, BNP Paribas and Banque Postale invest in companies propping up the Myanmar military junta
2023-07-06 | Paris | BankTrack, ALTSEAN-Burma, FIDH, Info Birmanie, Justice For Myanmar, Reporters without Borders
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Banks warned over financing of Rosebank's developer

A decision on the potential approval of the controversial oil field off Shetland is expected imminently
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2023-07-05 | Insider
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Banks committed to net zero still funding North Sea oil expansion by Equinor

Over 60 organisations have written to Equinor's biggest bankers warning them not to fund the company's controversial Rosebank oil field due to climate risks.
2023-07-04 | BankTrack
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Pump ass, not gas

Why the LGBT Awards must drop banks as well as big oil
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2023-06-28 | huck
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Challenging banks on their Dodgy Deals this AGM season

Our AGM wrap up blog
2023-06-27 | Natasha Ion – BankTrack
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Klimatvärsting blir titelsponsor för Stockholm Open – turneringen byter namn

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2023-06-20 | ETC - Sweden
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UK firm given £430m green transition loan then expanded oil and gas business

Exclusive: Wood Group boosts fossil fuel business and shrinks renewables work after getting government-backed loan
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2023-06-07 | The Guardian
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European banks have a dirty climate secret – but a new initiative could make them come clean

Banks are keeping most of their fossil fuel financing off the books
2023-06-02 | ShareAction
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Annual General Meetings: how well did they go for the climate?

2023-06-01 | Reclaim Finance
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Banks’ fossil fuel finance is under more scrutiny than ever

As global temperatures rise, so do tensions at banks’ AGMs. But that hasn’t stopped investors, campaigners and people on the front line of the climate crisis holding bank boards accountable.
2023-06-01 | ShareAction
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Defund TotalEnergies: a new campaign targets the company’s financial supporters

25 NGOs are launching an international campaign to urge finance to stop being complicit in TotalEnergies’ oil and gas expansion
2023-05-16 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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Oil and gas expansion: BNP Paribas spares its major clients

Reclaim Finance calls on BNP Paribas to follow through on its commitment and demand that the companies in its portfolios stop developing projects that it no longer intends to finance directly.
2023-05-11 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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Cash, Cattle and the Gran Chaco: How financiers turned a blind eye to Paraguay’s deforestation crisis

2023-04-17 | Global Witness
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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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French banks need better decarbonization targets and fossil fuel policies

2023-04-13 | Paris, France | Reclaim Finance
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The human and environmental cost of Europe financing industrial animal farming

2023-04-12 | Friends of the Earth Europe, Justice is Everybody's Business
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Global banks pledged to cut emissions – but still invest billions in US gas exports

Many banks promised to work toward net-zero emissions – but their targets explicitly exempt liquefied natural gas projects
2023-04-06 | The Guardian
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Emissions trap: Financial institutions still feeding the gas industry

2023-04-05 | urgewald, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon
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French bank Société Générale withdraws from Rio Grande LNG

After years of campaigning by activists groups and NGOs on both sides of the Atlantic, Société Générale declared to have withdrawn from the highly controversial Rio Grande LNG shale gas export project planned in South Texas.
2023-03-28 | Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe, Les Amis de la Terre France, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Exxon issues Rovuma LNG tender but financing in focus

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2023-03-20 | Energy Voice
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Who dares to finance Eni and Exxon’s dangerous Rovuma gas plans in Mozambique?

Two banks made clear they will avoid financing Rovuma LNG, but plenty remain in the frame.
2023-03-20 | BankTrack, Justiça Ambiental (JA!)/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Les Amis de la Terre France, ReCommon
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Global Witness calls on financiers to stop bankrolling rainforest beef, after official audit reflects findings about JBS

2023-03-14 | Global Witness
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French NGOs sue BNP Paribas, Europe’s largest financier of fossil fuel expansion

The legal action represents a world-first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank.
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2023-03-01 | DeSmog
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These ‘Net-Zero’ Banks Are Still Pretty Big on Big Oil

A BloombergNEF study reveals how energy financiers that pledged to move away from fossil fuels are way behind.
2023-03-01 | Bloomberg
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NGOs file second complaint against BNP Paribas

Following a lawsuit for providing financial services to fossil fuel producers, BNP Paribas is targeted by a new complaint for its role in fueling deforestation, forced labor, and Indigenous rights violations in Brazil
2023-02-27 | Paris | Comissão Pastoral da Terra, Notre Affaire à Tous
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French NGOs take BNP Paribas to court in world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank

2023-02-23 | Friends of the Earth France, Notre Affaire à Tous, Oxfam France
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Banks' energy policies reflect net-zero ambition gap

Restrictions on upstream oil and gas financing aren't the silver bullet that the sector needs to achieve its climate goals.
2023-02-23 | Euromoney
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European Banks Get Tougher on Oil, Gas

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2023-02-08 | Energy Intelligence
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Indonesia’s Adaro struggles to secure funding for $2bn aluminium project

Climate campaigners condemn plans for 2.2GW coal power plant to fuel new smelter
2023-02-07 | Financial Times
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Just 7% of global banks' energy financing goes to renewables, new data shows

Major global banks are standing in the way of climate targets with new data showing just 7% of their financing for energy companies went to renewables between 2016 and 2022
2023-01-24 | BankTrack, Fair Finance International, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, The Sunrise Project
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New report reveals the 40 financial institutions funding the world's climate-changing methane problem

A new report by Planet Tracker and Changing Markets reveals the top financial institutions funding the world’s biggest methane producers, and the role they can play in turning the tide on global heating.
2023-01-17 | London | Changing Markets, Planet Tracker
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Throwing fuel on the fire: GFANZ members provide billions in finance for fossil fuel expansion

2023-01-17 | Paris, France /Nijmegen, Netherlands | BankTrack, Reclaim Finance
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Europe’s largest banks falling short on climate and biodiversity action

New ShareAction research uncovers urgent need for UK and European banking sector to close loopholes in climate and biodiversity strategies
2022-12-12 | ShareAction
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Exposed: Western banks funding Qatar’s carbon bombs

US$ 20 trillion estimated damage linked to massive gas expansion by hosts of 2022 World Cup
2022-12-08 | Henrieke Butijn – BankTrack
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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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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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NGOs reveal the companies and financiers behind fossil fuel expansion in Africa

2022-11-15 | Berlin / Sharm El-Sheikh | BankTrack, urgewald, 350.org Africa, Africa Coal Network, Oilwatch Africa
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‘Wilful Ignorance’: Indigenous Delegation incredulous at bankers’ attitude to fossil fuel impacts

US and Mexican activists fighting new oil and gas projects said they had to give a basic lesson on the harm caused by fracking during meetings with financiers in London
2022-11-04 | DeSmog
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French climate NGOs take unprecedented legal action against BNP Paribas, number one European financier of fossil fuel expansion

On the eve of Climate Finance Day, an international finance event held annually in Paris, BNP Paribas – number one financier of fossil fuel expansion in Europe and fifth in the world – is given three months to comply with the French duty of vigilance law.
2022-10-26 | Friends of the Earth France, Notre Affaire à Tous, Oxfam France
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Bank financiers of harmful wood biomass have no policies addressing impacts, shows new study

A briefing from BankTrack details impacts of the wood biomass industry and calls on banks to exclude sector from finance
2022-10-21 | BankTrack
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Rio Grande Valley: at risk from fracked gas terminals

Big banks step away
2022-10-18 | Rainforest Action Network
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BNP Paribas receives a formal notice for financing major Brazilian beef producer, Marfrig, implicated in illegal deforestation, Indigenous land rights violations, and slave labor

2022-10-17 | Paris/Brasilia | Comissão Pastoral da Terra, Notre Affaire à Tous, Rainforest Action Network
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Banks in Russia now have to help with conscription: Those who stay could be complicit in war crimes

2022-10-11 | Lorena Bisignano – BankTrack, Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack
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Planning for public disclosures through hidden closed-door processes?

Why the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures needs to overhaul its approach to transparency
2022-09-12 | Shona Hawkes, Rainforest Action Network
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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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Banks have arranged US$2.7 trillion in bonds for fossil fuel companies

2022-07-12 | Australia | The Sunrise Project
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New report: Largest European banks bankroll high-risk arms traders

2022-07-12 | PAX
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Global banks ignore Amazon's indigenous voices at their peril

2022-06-23 | Reuters
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New Report: Financing a Fossil Future – Tracing the Money Pipeline of Fossil Gas in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is spiraling into a fossil future thanks to a massive fleet of gas projects
2022-06-03 | Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED)
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Banks urged to stop funding Shell if it proceeds with Jackdaw gas field

Climate activists have urged banks to sever financial ties with Shell if it goes ahead with plans to develop a controversial new gas field in the North Sea.
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2022-06-03 | The Ferret
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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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BNP Paribas and Société Générale: stop financing climate destruction and human rights abuses

We report back from the two French bank AGMs of this week, where they were called out on finance for fossil fuels, forest biomass and illegal settlements
2022-05-19 | Giulia Barbos – BankTrack, Hannah Greep – BankTrack, Sumeyra Arslan – BankTrack
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12 banks lend $8 billion to oil and gas expansionist TotalEnergies

2022-05-13 | Reclaim Finance
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Banks injected USD 37.7 billion in mining companies at risk of causing forest destruction and human rights violations

2022-04-12 | Forests & Finance Coalition
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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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Finance and Climate Change report

A comprehensive climate assessment of the world's largest financial institutions
2022-03-28 | InfluenceMap
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BNP Paribas stops new business in Russia, joins European peers

2022-03-22 | The Business Times
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What the war in Ukraine teaches us

Lessons for European governments, companies and financiers - a Profundo Expert View
2022-03-04 | Jan Willem van Gelder - Profundo
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At least $132 billion in finance for fossil fuels is locking Africa out of a Just Transition, shows new report

African countries kept in fossil fuel stranglehold by Overseas money
2022-03-03 | BankTrack, 350.org Africa, AFIEGO, Africa Coal Network, Alerte Congolaise pour l’Environnement et les Droits de l’Homme (ACEDH), Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities (AERC), Centre for Alternative Development (CAD), Environment Governance Institute (EGI), Friends of the Earth Ghana, Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Friends of the Earth Togo, Innovation for the Development and Protection of the Environment (IDPE), Laudato Si, Lumière Synergie pour le Développement (LSD), Milieudefensie, Oil Change International, Save Okavango (SOUL), Solidarité pour la Réflexion et Appui au Développement Communautaire (SORADEC), Synergie de Jeunes pour le Développement et les Droits Humains (SJDDH), Women Environmental Programme Nigeria, WoMin, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA)
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‘Net zero’ banks continue to finance oil & gas expansion, ignoring climate scenarios, and posing huge risks to investors

2022-02-14 | ShareAction
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BNP Paribas under the spotlight for major exposure to companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements 

2022-02-04 | Adrian Lakrichi – BankTrack
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Proposed conversion of former coal plant to biomass is a high risk for investors, new study shows

Portugal to decide on future of Pego power station by late February
2022-01-27 | Portugal | Biofuelwatch, Environmental Paper Network, Global Forest Coalition, ZERO
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#StopEACOP: 11 banks say “no” to Total in 2021

2021-12-31 | BankTrack
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Lack of coal exit plans poses challenge to finance’s engagement strategy

New analysis from Reclaim Finance shows that the vast majority of coal companies are failing to plan for an exit from the sector, despite looming deadlines set by several of their financial backers.
2021-12-21 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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Total’s deal with Suriname: the greenwashing of oil Block 58

Will this be the final red flag for the oil major’s financiers?
2021-11-24 | Maaike Beenes – BankTrack
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European financial institutions are investing in companies in illegal Israeli settlements

The Don’t Buy Into Occupation (DBIO) coalition’s new report exposes the financial relationships between European financial institutions and companies actively involved with the illegal Israeli settlements. Hannah Greep and Adrian Lakrichi from BankTrack look at the banks and financial institutions implicated.
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2021-11-17 | Ethical Consumer
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Climate groups call out banks lobbying for watered down Net Zero Commitments

Stop the Money Pipeline organizations respond to news that on behalf of a group of 12 banks, HSBC lobbied Mark Carney’s GFANZ to scrap mandatory science-based targets and delay a deadline.
2021-11-09 | New York | BankTrack, Stop the Money Pipeline
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Meet the banks funding the owners of the Cambo oil field

New research shines a spotlight on the banks backing Shell and Siccar Point Energy
2021-10-29 | #StopCambo
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The climate emergency rings out at Climate Finance Day

Friends of the Earth France and Alternatiba Paris led a civil disobedience action at the Climate Finance Day, making the climate emergency resonate during Bruno Le Maire's opening speech
2021-10-26 | Alternatiba Paris, Les Amis de la Terre
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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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Top global banks and investors made an estimated USD 1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses

2021-10-21 | Global Witness
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‘Wreckers of the Earth’: 300 London-based companies destroying the planet

2021-10-14 | Corporate Watch
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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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New report exposes billions in European financial support to companies in illegal Israeli settlements

2021-09-29 | Don't Buy Into Occupation
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For the sake of cheap soya: railway and waterway threaten the Amazon

2021-09-29 | Society for Threatened Peoples
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Banks and investors pouring billions into Arctic oil & gas bonanza despite climate pledges – report

How banks, investors and insurers are driving oil and gas expansion in the Arctic
2021-09-23 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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Letter from ClientEarth to 17 banks regarding the Cambo oil field

2021-09-14 | ClientEarth
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North Sea oil field development shows banks’ hypocrisy over climate

ClientEarth sends letter to 17 banks urging them to stop financing Shell and Siccar Point Energy, the companies pushing for the Cambo oil field
2021-09-14 | ClientEarth
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European banks storing €20bn a year in tax havens

2021-09-06 | The Guardian
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New research puts big banks’ sustainability claims in doubt

While 20 of Europe’s 25 largest banks have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, none have matched these long-term ambitions with comprehensive plans to avert climate change and biodiversity loss
2021-09-06 | London | ShareAction
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Forests & Finance Coalition warns foreign investors about the risk of the anti-environment agenda in the Brazilian Congress

2021-08-19 | Forests & Finance
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New bank links to Myanmar junta and atrocities found

19 international banks together invest over US$65 billion in shares of companies with ties to the Myanmar military junta
2021-07-28 | BankTrack, Justice For Myanmar
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Report: Global banks fail for financing, investment in oil & gas in Amazon rainforest

Banks remain highly exposed to risk of fueling corruption, human rights violations, and environmental harms despite commitments
2021-07-08 | San Francisco | Amazon Watch, Stand.earth
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Fossil assets: the new subprimes?

How funding the climate crisis can lead to a financial crisis
2021-06-10 | Institut Rousseau, Les Amis de la Terre, Reclaim Finance
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World’s 50 largest banks and investors driving deforestation through weak policies and major investments, new study finds

Top investors BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, PNB, EPF, GPIF, and KWAP all amongst lowest scoring
2021-06-08 | Forests & Finance
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Nine international banks invest over US$24 billion in companies linked to Myanmar regime and atrocities

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas among the top banks investing in companies linked to the Myanmar military junta
2021-05-27 | BankTrack, Justice For Myanmar
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စစ်ကောင်စီနဲ့ဆက်စပ်တဲ့ ကုမ္ပဏီ ၁၈ ခုမှာ နိုင်ငံတကာဘဏ် ၉ ခု ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်နေ

(In Burmese) Nine international banks are involved in 18 companies affiliated with the military council
2021-05-27 | Radio Free Asia
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En Birmanie, des affaires qui risquent de ne pas faire les affaires des banques

2021-05-27 | Libération
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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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Revealed: Businesses and banks behind global plastic waste crisis

Just 20 companies produce over 50 per cent of all single-use plastic - Top financial institutions enabling plastic waste identified
2021-05-18 | Minderoo Foundation
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BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity

2021-05-11 | BNP Paribas
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Eacop’s financing blues as lenders desert $3.5b project

2021-05-04 | The East African
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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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Three major French banks will not finance EACOP, according to French media

"The decision has been made, the project is too hard to defend", says bank source
2021-04-23 | BankTrack, #StopEACOP
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French banks disavow Total’s EACOP plans

2021-04-22 | Energy Voice
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New bank climate initiative fails to grasp urgent need to end finance for fossil fuels

Civil society statement on the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance
2021-04-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, urgewald, Amazon Watch, Bank on our Future, Indigenous Environmental Network, Market Forces, Positive Money, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction, Sierra Club
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Leading finance firms sign up to Mark Carney forum on low-carbon investment

2021-04-21 | The Guardian
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BNP, Société Générale et Crédit Agricole ne financeront pas le projet de Total en Ouganda

2021-04-21 | Les Echos
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More than half of Europe’s bank directors too compromised to end fossil fuel finance

2021-04-07 | DeSmog
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Are banks partly responsible for child labour and deforestation in chocolate production?

The role of Belgian banks in the cocoa sector
2021-04-03 | FairFin
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Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report

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2021-03-24 | The Guardian
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Climate Chaos: NGOs Name Top Banks Who Put $3.8 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels

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2021-03-24 | Forbes
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Big Banks Are ‘Fueling Climate Chaos’ By Pouring Trillions Into Oil, Gas And Coal

2021-03-24 | HuffPost
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BNP Paribas Bucked 2020 Bank Trend in Fossil-Fuel Financing

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2021-03-24 | Bloomberg
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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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Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food

While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation.
2021-03-07 | Inside Climate News
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The Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) welcomes fifteen new financial institutions

2021-03-04 | Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF)
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EUR 146 billion for trash? How banks and the plastics industry are forcing a global environmental catastrophe

2021-03-04 | Berlin | Facing Finance
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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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US Court rules class-action lawsuit against BNP Paribas for allegedly aiding & abetting human rights abuses in Sudan can proceed

2021-02-23 | BHRRC
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BNP Paribas gives soy-related deforestation a five-year free pass

2021-02-15 | Canopée Forêts Vivantes, Mighty Earth, Reclaim Finance, SumOfUs
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BNP Paribas to limit finance to customers using converted Amazon forest land

2021-02-15
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BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, ING to exclude exports of Ecuadorian Amazon oil from trading activities

Commitments come in response to Amazon Watch, Stand.earth report that exposed how European banks provide USD 10 billion in oil trade financing from Amazon to U.S.
2021-01-25 | Geneva, Switzerland | Amazon Watch, Stand.earth
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Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
2021-01-18 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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Bank lending to plastics industry faces scrutiny as pollution concerns mount

2021-01-07 | Reuters
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Five years since the Paris Agreement, are banks' 2050 pledges enough to reign in fossil fuel finance?

How the year's 'Paris-alignment' moves stack up against the measures needed to tackle the climate crisis
2020-12-12 | BankTrack
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Five years lost - How the finance industry is blowing the Paris carbon budget

2020-12-10 | Paris | urgewald, Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), Friends of the Earth US, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon
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Major global banks complicit in widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest linked to Brazilian beef companies, and international audits flawed

2020-12-03 | Global Witness
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Six years of the Soft Commodities Compact failed to slow bank finance for deforestation

New BankTrack research shows need for banks to move beyond certification requirements
2020-12-01 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Equator Banks fail communities on consultation and grievance mechanisms, new study finds

BankTrack research into nine projects financed ‘under Equator’ finds routine failures to conduct proper community consultation and a lack of effective project-level grievance mechanisms
2020-11-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Barclays, HSBC and Credit Suisse among worst offenders on oil sands finance

ShareAction says Barclays has participated in 11 loan and bond deals to oil sands companies since its net zero announcement in March
2020-10-29 | London | ShareAction
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Bankrolling Extinction: The top 10 banks financing biodiversity loss

Report names HSBC, Bank of America, Mitsubishi Financial & others
2020-10-28 | portfolio.earth
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A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
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HSBC and other banks set climate targets for loans and investments

2020-10-01 | Bloomberg
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Western banks provide billions in backing for firms driving tuna species to collapse

2020-09-28 | Unearthed
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Two sides of the same coin: How the pulp and paper industry is profiting from deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

2020-09-22 | Environmental Paper Network
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Principles for Responsible Banking no obstacle to finance climate destruction

Twenty PRB banks provided over US$1.25 trillion in fossil fuel financing since Paris Agreement
2020-09-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
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Unite or die: the UN Principles for Responsible Banking one year on

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2020-09-21 | Climate Risk Review
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New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
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Banks funnelled over USD 150 billion into companies driving deforestation since Paris Agreement, new data analysis shows

First-ever database reveals true scope of financing of forest-risk commodity companies, amidst global rainforest fires
2020-09-01 | San Francisco | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Rainforest Action Network
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BNP Paribas, Natixis and Crédit Agricole implicated in financing global forest destruction

2020-08-30 | Global Witness
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New report reveals European banks financing trade of controversial Amazon oil to U.S.

Banks in Switzerland, France and the Netherlands facilitate trade from Amazon Sacred Headwaters region in Ecuador, where oil extraction contributes to spills, human rights abuses and climate destruction
2020-08-12 | Geneva, Switzerland | Amazon Watch, Stand.earth
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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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BNP Paribas close to adopting global coal exit policy

2020-07-22 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France, Reclaim Finance
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European banks accused of propping up coal polluters

2020-07-15 | London | Financial Times
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BNP Paribas commits to no longer finance companies with no strategy to exit the coal power sector

2020-07-03 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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Could financial sector vigilance have avoided Vizag gas leak?

India must make Environment, Social and Governance accountability mandatory so that lenders are responsible towards tax payers
2020-07-01 | Shreya Kaushik, Fair Finance India
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BNP Paribas bids farewell to coal-fired power, but fails to exclude the rest of the coal sector

2020-05-12 | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth France, Reclaim Finance
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Saudi Aramco closes US$10bn loan

2020-05-12 | London | Reuters
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Global finance sector failing to apply conservation criteria to pulp and paper funding

2020-03-21 | New York/Amsterdam | Environmental Paper Network
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Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2020

New report reveals global banks funneled USD 2.7 trillion into fossil fuels Since Paris Climate Agreement, with financing on the rise each year 
2020-03-18 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Pobladores/as se toman terrenos de Forestal Arauco en Laraquete

2020-03-12 | Resumen.cl
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Big European banks face call to end funding for firms building coal-fired plants

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2019-12-05 | Reuters
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Report on French banks’ colossal carbon footprint

2019-11-28 | Friends of the Earth France, Oxfam France
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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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French banks still funding coal despite finance minister’s plea

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2019-11-15 | EurActiv
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Coal finance exit in France – Banks and insurers urged to drop coal expansion clients and make good on commitments

2019-11-14 | Paris, France | BankTrack, Unfriend Coal
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Aramco IPO: These are the banks and advisers on world's biggest sale

2019-11-03 | Bloomberg
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How long will Santander continue to profit from Polish coal expansion?

The Spanish bank's use of ‘ESG loans’ for companies with fossil fuel expansion plans is part of a dangerous new trend
2019-10-16 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack, Kuba Gogolewski – Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO
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Sudanese victims ask French judges to investigate BNP Paribas’ role in atrocities

2019-09-26 | International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
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Economics of electric vehicles mean oil's days as a transport fuel are numbered – BNP Paribas report

2019-09-02 | Forbes
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Global NGOs: Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World's Forests

Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon "The Amazon is on fire. Corporations share the blame. They need to become part of the solution."
2019-08-30 | Amazon Watch
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BNP Paribas backs away from US private prison industry

2019-07-17
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BNP Paribas backs away from U.S. private prison industry

2019-07-13 | Reuters
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The French banks behind RWE's destruction

2019-07-10 | Guest blog Lorette Philippot, Europe Beyond Coal
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Banks step away from US private prisons

2019-07-01 | BankTrack
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BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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BNP Paribas must face revived lawsuit over Sudanese genocide- U.S. appeals court

2019-05-22 | Reuters
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Dirty Profits 7 - Out of Control: Irresponsible weapons transfers and future weapon systems

2019-05-22 | Frankfurt am Main | Facing Finance
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Fool’s Gold – €16bn for Europe’s biggest climate polluters

2019-05-21 | Berlin | Beyond Fossil Fuels
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RWE plans destruction of ancient German forest

Top bankers of Europe's biggest CO2 emitter revealed in Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019
2019-03-21 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
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Global Banks, Led by JPMorgan Chase, Invested $1.9 Trillion in Fossil Fuels Since Paris Climate Pact

2019-03-20 | Desmogblog.com
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Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019

World's top banks have poured $1.9 trillion into fossil fuel financing since the Paris Agreement was adopted, with financing on the rise each year
2019-03-20 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
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Banks need to join forces to stop oil, shale businesses shopping around: BNP

2019-03-15 | S&P Global
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BNP Paribas fund arm plans €1bn coal divestment

French asset manager is latest company to reduce fossil fuel exposure
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2019-03-14 | FT
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Banks be warned – Poland’s PGE wants to blow the house and the climate on coal expansion extravaganza

Latest distress signal from new financial results another reason for potential financiers to walk away
2019-03-14 | Warsaw, Poland | Kuba Gogolewski – Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO
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Thirteen Guinean villages lodge complaint against World Bank for financing destructive bauxite mine

Further finance came from a syndicate of commercial banks under the Equator Principles
2019-03-11 | Conakry | Inclusive Development International
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Every two weeks a bank, insurer or lender announces new coal restrictions

Major financial institutions restricting coal funding tops 100
2019-02-27 | IEEFA
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Trans Adriatic Pipeline: France provides massive financial support to controversial gas project

2019-01-17 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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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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New briefing paper on RWE – Europe’s worst polluter – for investors, insurers and banks

2018-12-16 | Beyond Fossil Fuels
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New report: Three years after the Paris climate summit, French banks are financing more coal

2018-11-26 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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Principles must bring commitments

Banks endorsing draft Principles for Responsible Banking called upon to urgently act on what they sign
2018-11-26 | Paris | BankTrack
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USA: Govt. contractors accused of profiting from separation & detention of migrant & asylum seeking families

2018-07-25 | Business-humanrights.org
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U.S. court order stops some work on Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline in West Virginia

2018-06-25 | Reuters
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BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank still involved in illegal Israeli settlement industry

2018-05-29 | 11.11.11
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Investors urge fossil fuel firms to shun Trump's Arctic drilling plans

2018-05-14 | The Guardian
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Report finds major banks ramped up fossil fuel financing to $115 billion in 2017

Despite 2017 being the costliest year on record for weather disasters, new report reveals that banks increased extreme fossil fuel financing last year, led by a more than doubling in lending to tar sands companies and pipelines.
2018-03-28 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
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New report: Société Générale – Foot on the gas for fossil fuels

2018-03-05 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France
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Out of sync with climate reality – the coal mine and coal plant dreams of Poland's two dirty utilities

2018-02-26 | Warsaw | Katarzyna Kubiczek, Ecological Association EKO-UNIA
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Banks criticised for funding coal deals despite Paris agreement

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2017-12-11 | Financial Times
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BNP Paribas Says It Will Stop Funding for Tobacco Industry

French bank is latest financial firm to boycott industry - Clients said to include BAT, Imperial Brands and Philip Morris
2017-11-24 | Bloomberg
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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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Big banks complicit in massive tar sands destruction and pollution through hundreds of billions in financing

2017-11-02 | Rainforest Action Network
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Investor alert: Deep sea mining project in last-ditch search for capital

Banks and other investors warned to steer clear
2017-10-25 | Nijmegen and Brisbane | BankTrack, Deep Sea Mining Campaign
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BNP Paribas takes the global lead in excluding unconventional fossil fuels from portfolio

Other banks urged to follow suit, starting with the Equator banks
2017-10-12 | Nijmegen, Paris | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
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BNP to halt shale oil financing, expand funds for renewables

2017-10-11 | Bloomberg
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Nouvelles mesures climat de BNP Paribas : un pas dans la bonne direction

2017-10-11 | Les Amis de la Terre
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BNP Paribas takes further measures to accelerate its support of the energy transition

BNP Paribas will no longer finance LNG terminals that predominantly liquefy and export gas from shale
2017-10-11 | BNP Paribas
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Indigenous Groups Lead Movement to Call on Banks to Drop Enbridge’s Controversial Line 3 Pipeline

Tribal Nations based in Minnesota oppose the project and the Minnesota Department of Commerce has condemned it
2017-09-21 | Minneapolis, MN | Honor the Earth, Rainforest Action Network
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Financiers of pulp and paper industry projects will cause environmental and social harm, says new report

2017-08-01 | Mandy Haggith – Environmental Paper Network
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Ten Equator banks demand decisive action on Indigenous peoples following DAPL debacle

Banks from the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy press Equator Principles Association for change
2017-06-16 | BankTrack
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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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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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Pipeline action at Société Générale: French banks must not be Trump accomplices

2017-05-22 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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The Money Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Is Your Bank Financing Another Fracked-Gas Disaster?

2017-05-18 | Oil Change International
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Indigenous leaders launch new campaign to defund all four proposed tar sands pipelines

2017-05-09 | Turtle Island | Mazaska Talks
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Energy Transfer: Which banks continue to support the company behind DAPL?

2017-04-06 | Alison Kirsch - Rainforest Action Network
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Standing Rock Sioux applauds BNP Paribas’ decision to divest from DAPL

2017-04-05 | Cannonn Ball, N.D. | Stand with Standing Rock
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French Banks’ Dangerous Liaisons with the Israeli Settlement Enterprise

2017-03-31 | Association France Palestine Solidarité
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Report reveals links between five French banks and insurance companies and the Israeli settlements

2017-03-29 | Paris | Association France Palestine Solidarité, CCFD - Terre Solidaire, FIDH, LDH, Solidaires
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Europe’s biggest banks register €25 billion profit in tax havens

2017-03-27 | Fair Finance International, Oxfam
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Standard Chartered and other major banks financing palm oil

2017-03-16 | Energy Desk Greenpeace
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Environmentalists urge French bank not to finance Texas fracking project

2017-03-02 | The Guardian
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Environmentalists urge French bank not to finance Texas fracking project

2017-03-02 | The Guardian
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Des ONG reprochent à BNP Paribas de financer l’exportation du gaz de schiste américain

2017-03-01 | Le Monde
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BNP Paribas bankrolling climate change, pollution, and wildlife extinction through Texas LNG project; low income and native communities targeted once again

U.S. partner Bank of the West also tied to massive liquefied natural gas deal
2017-03-01 | San Francisco, Paris | Les Amis de la Terre, Rainforest Action Network
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Leading banks under fire for misrepresenting human rights responsibilities

Discussion Paper by Thun Group of banks meets series of objections from UN Working Group, John Ruggie and over 30 civil society organisations
2017-02-28 | BankTrack
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Coal Roadshow: JPMorgan Chase propping up new coal plant in Poland

Less than one year after committing not to finance new coal power in the developed world, JPMorgan Chase uses policy loophole to finance company planning new coal capacity in Poland
2017-02-24 | Warsaw, San Francisco | Foundation “Development YES - Open-Pit Mines NO”
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Multi-billion euro investments out of control: How banks continue to finance violations of human rights and environmental norms

For the fifth consecutive year Facing Finance reports on violations of environmental and social norms and standards by multinational corporations, as documented by international NGOs.
2017-02-09 | Hamburg/Berlin | Facing Finance
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BNP Paribas ne financera plus de nouvelle centrale à charbon

2017-01-25 | Le Figaro
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Coal in Indonesia: Société Générale pulls out of financing, Crédit Agricole under pressure to follow

2017-01-03 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France
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BNP Paribas to stop funding for tobacco industry

2017 | BankTrack
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Six banks step away from Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and backers

2017 | BankTrack
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BNP Paribas takes the global lead in excluding unconventional fossil fuels from portfolio

2017 | BankTrack
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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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Climate Finance Day: BNP Paribas failing to respect coal finance commitments

One year after COP21, French bank has still not excluded Polish coal company PGE from client list
2016-11-03 | Paris, France | BankTrack, Fair Finance France, Foundation Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO, Les Amis de la Terre
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Charbon: le «double jeu» des banques françaises

2016-10-28 | Liberation
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Malgré leurs promesses, les banques restent addicts au carbone

2016-10-04 | L'Humanité
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Climate Week NYC Sponsored by Banks Financing Fossil Fuel Projects

2016-09-22 | TriplePundit
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Banks sponsoring ‘Climate Week NYC’ responsible for investing billions in extreme fossil fuels

Research shows Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of the West (BNP Paribas) continue to play major role in funding climate change activities
2016-09-19 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
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New report finds banks betting on climate change

Seventh annual bank finance Report Card reveals major banks poured hundreds of billions into extreme fossil fuels
2016-06-14 | Nijmegen, San Francisco | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and Oil Change International
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COAL: BNP Paribas misses its shot, the match begins!

2016-05-26 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
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New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Drummond and paramilitary violence in Colombia

2016-05-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Bank financing of staggering Polish coal development plans continues to run deep

2016-02-25 | Kuba Gogolewski – Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO
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BNP Paribas IP changes voting policy to be 'a lot more aggressive' on climate change

2016-02-23 | Environmental Finance
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'Getting right down to the engine'

2016-02-15 | Environmental Finance
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BNP Paribas blacklists Drummond for environmental and human rights reasons

2016 | BankTrack
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BNP Paribas coal finance impacts earn Pinocchio Climate Award from the public

2015-12-04 | Paris, France | BankTrack and Les Amis de la Terre
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BNP Paribas and Société Générale move away from coal – but not far enough

2015-11-19 | BankTrack and Les Amis de la Terre
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COP21 : en Inde, vivre au milieu des centrales à charbon

2015-11-13 | France Info
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Bangladesh coal plant “non-compliant with Equator Principles” shows new BankTrack analysis

“Big Three” French banks ruled out financing for Rampal project near Sundarbans World Heritage mangrove forest
2015-06-29 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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French banks say no to Bangladesh coal plant

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2015-06-25 | The Guardian
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EDF, Air France et BNP Paribas s’achètent l’amitié du climat

2015-05-29 | Terra Eco
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France defends 'imperfect' fossil fuel sponsors for Paris climate summit

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2015-05-29 | The Guardian
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BNP Paribas AGM: time to quit coal!

2015-05-13 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
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Three French banks refuse to finance Galilee Basin projects

2015-04-09 | Mining Innovation News
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French banks refuse to finance Great Barrier Reef coal mines ($)

2015-04-09 | Business Green
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Les banques françaises se retirent du plus grand projet charbonnier au monde

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2015-04-08 | Le Monde
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Victory for the climate and environment: French banks pledge not to finance mega coal projects in Australia's Galilee Basin

2015-04-08 | Montreuil, France; Nijmegen, Netherlands | Friends of the Earth France / BankTrack
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UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed

2015-02-19 | The Ecologist
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Give us back our land: Ugandan oil palm project taken to court over land-grab claims

2015-02-19 | Kampala/Brussels/London | Anne van Schaik and Frank Muramuzi
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Banks lend almost $2bn to “Indonesia’s biggest forest destroyer”

2015-02-17 | BankTrack Blog
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“Big Three” French banks rule out financing for Rampal coal project

2015 | BankTrack
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Three French banks refuse to finance Galilee Basin projects

2015 | BankTrack
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Climate breakthrough as string of banks dump coal financing

2015 | BankTrack
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Call for banks to divest from APRIL

Social conflict and environmental destruction are rife in its operations
2014-12-10 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Mandy Haggith – Environmental Paper Network
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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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'Record year' for bank coal financing as latest UN climate warning looms

2014-10-29 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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BNP Paribas results disastrous for climate and taxation, say campaigners at today’s AGM

2014-05-15 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
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BankTrack calls for strengthening of Green Bond Principles

Combatting climate change needs real commitments instead of loose guidelines - Banks must urgently curb fossil fuel financing
2014-04-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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More US and European Banks step back from Mountaintop Removal

2014 | BankTrack
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Anti-Areva Protest: Letter to French and European Bankers from Fishermen and Farmers of Jaitapur

2013-06-04 | DiaNuke.org
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European banks and pension funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda

2013-05-21 | Brussels | Friends of the Earth Europe
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European banks fuel land-grabs in Uganda

2013-05-21 | Friends of the Earth Europe
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BNP Paribas AGM: stop funding coal!

2013-05-15 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
Blog
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Kaliningrad Nuclear Plant: HypoVereinsbank follows BNP Paribas and pulls out. When will Coface and Société Générale follow suit?

2013-04-26 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Une centrale russe à l’assaut de l’Europe (Russian plant to conquer Europe)

2013-03-14 | France | Politis
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

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

“Nuclear Banks, No Thanks!” coalition welcomes cancellation Belene nuclear plant

Cancellation Bulgarian nuclear power plant sends clear signal to banks that nuclear industry is a dying business; the future is in renewables
2012-03-29 | Nijmegen | Coalition “Nuclear Banks, No Thanks!”
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Don’t bank on the bomb

2012-03-05 | Washington | ICAN
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger

2012-01-12 | Brussels | Friends of the Earth Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Bulgarian government cancels Belene Nuclear Plant

2012 | BankTrack
Blog
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Bankrolling Climate Change

NGOs present groundbreaking research on banks’ involvement in coal financing
2011-11-30 | Durban | urgewald, Earthlife, BankTrack and groundWork
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

French banks: a citizen rating reveals what is going on underneath their activities

2011-11-02 | Paris and Nice | Les Amis de la Terre and Attac France
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
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Financiers search for sustainable future

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

‘Nuclear banks no thanks’ coalition demands banks to stop financing nuclear energy

Nuclear disaster in Japan is a sad and urgent reminder of the inherent risks of nuclear energy
2011-03-15 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Symbolic funeral for coal at the offices of Deutsche Bank, ING & BNP Paribas

4,000 signatures call for banks to stop financing coal power stations
2011-03-01 | Brussels | Netwerk Vlaanderen
Blog
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BNP Paribas releases new policy on nuclear financing

Financing of Angra III and -possibly- Jaitapur plants shows hypocricy of effort
2011-02-15 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

France signs pact on Jaitapur N-plant

2010-12-07 | Hindustan times
Blog
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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
Blog
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India to build nuclear reactors in earthquake zone with help from BNP Paribas

2010-12-06 | Paris | Greenpeace International
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Thousands protest against French-backed Indian nuclear plant

2010-12-04 | The Times of India
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Theun Hinboun expansion project marks breakthrough

2010-11-23 | Laos | Phonsavanh Vongsay
Blog
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Lancement du premier calculateur de l’empreinte carbone de notre épargne

2010-11-22 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
Blog
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Greenpeace tells BNP-Paribas ‘stop dangerous radioactive investments’

2010-10-21 | Paris | Greenpeace
Blog
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European banks provide fuel for the conflict in Sudan

The limited scope of Sustainable Asset Management
2010-09-20 | Amsterdam | Somo
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Villages make way for new hydro project

2010-08-05 | Vientiane
Blog
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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

Les Bisounours: Deux hypotheses

sur BNP Paribas et climat
2010-06-08 | Paris, France
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Bankruptcy threatens banks operating in Belgium

Netwerk Vlaanderen calls to halt investments in coal plants
2010-06-02 | Brussels/ Ghent | Netwerk Vlaanderen
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power

New website exposes nuclear secrets of commercial banks
2010-05-26 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack calls upon banks to Close the Gap on investment policies

New report evaluates quality of investment policies of 49 banks; more policies in place, overall quality below what is required
2010-04-27 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Victoire à Belene (Bulgarie)

BNP Paribas jette l’éponge
2010-01-29 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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
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Theun Hinboun hydropower plant expansion progresses

2009-12-08 | Vientiane, Laos | International Rivers
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
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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
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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
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EPR : Les banques françaises portent à bout de bras un fiasco industriel

2009-10-16 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Bugaria PM: Nuclear Plant Loan Disgrace for Former Government

2009-08-28 | Sofia news Agency
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack members unveil bank secrets

Six European organizations launch a revealing website: www.banksecrets.eu
2009-06-25 | Brussels | CRBM
Blog
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BNP Paribas: very high risk of harmful investments

New research from Netwerk Vlaanderen shows need for regulation of the banking industry
2009-03-19 | Brussels | Netwerk Vlaanderen
Blog
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Cri d’alarme de l’UICN pour les baleines : BNP Paribas doit quitter Sakhaline II

2009-03-02 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
Blog
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Environmental groups condemn Japanese and French banks for financing Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia

2008-06-17 | Tokyo, San Fransisco, Moscow, Nijmegen | Pacific Environment
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Japanese Banks Blasted for Investment Plans in Sakhalin II

Banks to Stay out of Environmentally Unsound Oil and Gas Project in Russia
2008-06-12 | Tokyo | Friends of the Earth Japan
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Say No to Belene Nuclear Plant!

2007-11-20 | Europe | Urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sakhalin II: new environmental violations brought to light

Banks once more warned for risks of being involved
2007-06-27 | United States of America | Pacific Environment
Blog
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Europe-wide Protests against BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas must say No to the Belene Nuclear Power Plant
2007-06-05 | Europe | Les Amis de la Terre
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report FoE France : French Banks, Fossil Banks?

New FoE report slams French banks for sad state climate policies
2007-03-06 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sakhalin II: Six banks face serious decision

now that the Russian government has revoked the environmental permits
2006-09-15 | London, United Kingdom | Pacific Environment
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report FoE France : Banques et environnement: Presque tout reste à faire

2006-03-06 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
Resources
Documents
Links

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to BNP Paribas on Jadar project

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

BNP Paribas supporting its clients' transition

Other bank document
2025-03-24 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from BankTrack to BNP Paribas on Finance to PLN

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

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

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

Letter from BankTrack to BNP Paribas on JSW Utkal Steel

Correspondence
2025-02-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Responsible Business Conduct Policy

Bank policy
2024-11-24 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas Asset Management

Banking on biodiversity collapse 2024

Partner publication
2024-10-16 00:00:00 | Forest and Finance Coalition

NZBA 2024 Progress Report

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

Response Tracking – Letter to 20 banks on ArcelorMittal, sent June 10th 2024

NGO document
2024-07-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Suzano's Pulp Fiction

Comparing words and deeds of the world’s largest eucalyptus pulp producer
NGO document
2024-07-16 00:00:00 | EPN

Human Rights Statement

Bank policy
2024-07-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Statement on Human Rights

Bank policy
2024-07-01 00:00:00 | BNP PARIBAS

Letter from BankTrack to BNP Paribas on Risks of BNP Paribas' relationship with ArcelorMittal

Correspondence
2024-06-10 00:00:00 | BankTrack

UNSUPERVISED - The carbon pollution of the world’s largest banks

NGO document
2024-05-21 00:00:00 | ReCommon

Climate Report 2023

Other bank document
2024-05-15 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

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

Still Banking on Coal press release

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris
Partner publication
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris

NGO document
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald

ASSESSING PETROPERÚ’S FINANCIAL, LEGAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL RISKS

Risk Alert
Partner publication
2024-04-30 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch

Annual Report 2023

Annual report
2024-04-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Bankrolling Ecosystem Destruction

EU banks have poured €256 billion into sectors that threaten nature and climate 
Partner publication
2024-03-26 00:00:00 | Greenpeace International, Milieudefensie, Harvest

Open letter signed by 81 CSOs to financiers Ithaca Energy about Rosebank oil and gas field

NGO document
2024-03-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Stop Rosebank

Still Butchering the Planet

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

Finance for War. Finance for Peace

How values-based banks foster peace in a world of increasing conflict
Other document
2024-02-28 00:00:00 | Banca Etica Group and the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV)

The Cerrado crisis: Brazil’s deforestation frontline

Partner publication
2024-02-21 00:00:00 | Global Witness

Coal Havens

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

Letter from BNP Paribas to BankTrack on POSCO Relining plans

Correspondence
2024-01-09 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from BankTrack to BNP Paribas on Ending support for metallurgical coal

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

Letter from BankTrack to BNP Paribas on posco relining plans

Correspondence
2023-11-29 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Sector Policy - Mining

Bank policy
2023-11-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Belgisch geld voor nieuwe fossiel infrastructuur

[Belgian money for new fossil infrastructure]
NGO document
2023-11-21 00:00:00 | FairFin Belgium

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

Correspondence
2023-11-21 00:00:00 | BankTrack, ACA, CTEA

Investing in Myanmar's military cartel

BankTrack publication
2023-07-06 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Info Birmanie, Justice for Myanmar

Letter from BankTrack and 60 civil society groups to 20 bank financiers of Equinor on Equinor's proposed North Sea field Rosebank

Letter to financiers of Equinor on their client's ownership of Rosebank
Correspondence
2023-07-04 00:00:00 | BankTrack and 60 civil society groups

BankTrack's submission to the public consultation on TNFD V0.4

BankTrack publication
2023-06-01 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Why banks should account for their full share of facilitated emissions

Banks are making progress on setting net-zero targets but most focus on lending and only a handful include capital markets facilitation – funding activities where banks do not provide capital themselves but play a critical role in facilitating access to it. Capital markets are a vital source of funding and will be key in delivering the low-carbon transition. In 2021 alone, global bond and equity issuances stood at US$26.8 trillion. This memo outlines why the industry-organised Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials should include a 100% weighting for capital market facilitation.
NGO document
2023-05-23 00:00:00 | ShareAction

BNP Paribas 2022 climate report

Annual report
2023-05-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas details and strengthens its energy transition ambitions

Bank policy
2023-05-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy Oil & Gas

Bank policy
2023-05-10 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Press release: European banks among biggest drivers of fossil fuel expansion

2023 Banking on Climate Chaos - Europe press release
NGO document
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre France, Reclaim Finance, ReCommon, Urgewald

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

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-04-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector Policy - Coal-fired power generation

Bank policy
2023-02-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

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

In debt to the planet

Europe’s largest banks are not doing enough to address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
NGO document
2022-12-12 00:00:00 | ShareAction

BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

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

Who is financing fossil fuel expansion in Africa?

BankTrack publication
2022-11-15 00:00:00 | Urgewald, BankTrack, 350.org Africa, Africa Coal Network & Oilwatch Africa, et al.

Burning forests in the name of clean energy? How banks are failing to exclude the harmful wood biomass industry from finance

BankTrack publication
2022-10-21 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Rio Grande Valley: At Risk From Fracked-Gas Exports 2022 Update

NGO document
2022-10-01 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Les Amis de la Terre, Save RGV, Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

Vaca Muerta Basin: An Oil & Gas Trap

IMF and global capital markets neglect the risk of ballooning Argentina’s debt and liability problem
NGO document
2022-07-29 00:00:00 | Profundo, 350.org Argentina

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to BNP Paribas on Rio Tinto Jadar Lithium mine

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

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

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

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-03-29 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-12-17 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Actions speak louder: Assessing bank responses to human rights violations

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

Letter from BNP Paribas to BankTrack on responding to letter on investments in Myanmar

Correspondence
2021-10-29 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

A practitioner's guide for banks

Considerations for banks in setting a net zero strategy
Other bank document
2021-10-04 00:00:00 | Sustainable Markets Initiative - Financial Services Taskforce

Drill, baby, drill

How banks, investors and insurers are driving oil and gas expansion in the Arctic
NGO document
2021-09-23 00:00:00 | Reclaim Finance

Recipients of the letter about the risk of the anti-environment agenda in the Brazilian Congress

NGO document
2021-08-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Banking on Amazon destruction

NGO document
2021-07-08 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch & Stand.earth

Guidance on Biodiversity Target Setting for PRB signatories

Other document
2021-06-24 00:00:00 | UNEPFI

Forests & Finance 2021 Briefing - Is Your Money Destroying Rainforests or Violating Rights?

NGO document
2021-06-23 00:00:00 | Forests and Finance

Fossil assets: the new subprimes?

How funding the climate crisis can lead to a financial crisis
NGO document
2021-06-10 00:00:00 | Institut Rousseau, Reclaim Finance, Les Amis de la Terre

Key Cerrado Deforesters in 2020 Linked to the Clearing of More Than 110,000 Hectares

NGO document
2021-05-03 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research

Policy on biodiversity

Bank policy
2021-05-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Commitment statement Net Zero Banking Alliance

Other document
2021-04-21 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking

BNP Paribas’ Soft Commodities Compact Reporting 2021

Other bank document
2021-04-06 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Eieren voor ons geld

Role of Belgian banks in the cocoa sector (report in Dutch)
NGO document
2021-04-03 00:00:00 | FairFin Belgium

Are banks partly responsible for child labour and deforestation in chocolate production?

(summary FairFin report on the role of Belgian banks in the cocoa sector: Eieren voor ons geld)
NGO document
2021-04-03 00:00:00 | FairFin Belgium

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-03-16 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm.

Animal welfare and European financial links with deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado
NGO document
2021-03-05 00:00:00 | World Animal Protection and Profundo

New BNP Paribas policy on soy and beef is a positive step, but lacks urgency

NGO document
2021-02-26 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance

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

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

Policy on deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado regions

Bank policy
2021-02-15 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
Other document
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Collective Commitment to Climate Action - Year One in Review

Other document
2020-12-08 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking

Soft Commitments, Hard Lessons: an analysis of the Soft Commodities Compact

BankTrack publication
2020-11-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack

"Trust Us, We're Equator Banks": Part II

BankTrack publication
2020-11-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Letter from Forests & Finance to BNP Paribas on BNP Paribas' forest-risk financing

Correspondence
2020-11-22 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance

Letter to banks and investors on Indofood labor exploitation

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

The Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) & the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact

Other document
2020-11-16 00:00:00 | Banking Environment Initiative

The BEI & CGF’s ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact: Technical Guidance

Other document
2020-11-16 00:00:00 | Banking Environment Initiative

High Risk, Low Reward

An overview of European banks' position on oil sands
NGO document
2020-10-31 00:00:00 | ShareAction

Bankrolling Extinction: The top 10 banks financing biodiversity loss

NGO document
2020-10-28 00:00:00 | porfolio.earth

A Call to Action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End Climate-Destructive Financing Now

Joint civil society statement
BankTrack publication
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions risking our renewable energy future with coal
BankTrack publication
2020-07-15 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal, BankTrack, BlackRock’s Big Problem, Ember, Fundacja "Rozwój TAK - Odkrywki NIE”, Friends of the Earth Finland, Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace, Reclaim Finance, Re:Common, ShareAction, Urgewald, 350 Japan

Anti-corruption policy

Bank policy
2020-07-14 00:00:00

Gas in Mozambique: A windfall for the industry, a curse for the country

France thrusts Mozambique into the fossil fuel trap
NGO document
2020-06-24 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre France, Friends of the Earth International, JA! (Friends of the Earth Mozambique)

2019 TCFD Report

Other bank document
2020-05-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-05-18 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

UPM signs a EUR 750 million revolving credit facility with a margin tied to long-term biodiversity and climate targets

Company document
2020-03-25 00:00:00 | UPM

Banking on Climate Change - Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2020

BankTrack publication
2020-03-18 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club

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

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

Exiting coal. Is the French finance industry on its way?

BankTrack publication
2019-11-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Unfriend Coal

Statement on ocean protection

Bank policy
2019-09-23 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Civil Society Statement on the new Principles for Responsible Banking

BankTrack publication
2019-09-22 00:00:00 | BankTrack and others

Collective Commitment to Climate Action

Other document
2019-09-19 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking

Letter from BNP Paribas to BankTrack on PRB implementation

Correspondence
2019-09-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Annual General Meeting Shareholder Briefing BNP Paribas (in French)

BankTrack publication
2019-05-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions bankrolling Europe’s most coal-dependent utilities
NGO document
2019-05-21 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal

The Wall Street Banks Still Financing Private Prisons

2019 Data Brief
NGO document
2019-04-30 00:00:00 | ITPI, Public Accountability Initiative, Center for Popular Deocracy

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-03-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Sector policy - nuclear power

Bank policy
2019-03-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Responsible Business Conduct Policy

Bank policy
2019-03-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Modern Slavery and human trafficking Statement

Bank policy
2019-02-22 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from Civil Society Groups to Companies linked to Vale on Breakdown of Brumadinho tailings dam

Correspondence
2019-02-21 00:00:00 | Civil Society Groups

Bank Policy Matrix

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

The Katowice Commitment

Other bank document
2018-12-04 00:00:00 | ING, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Standard Chartered

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to BNP Paribas on Demands FBNT campaign

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

French Banks: TOTALly irreponsible in ultra-deep waters

Briefing paper
NGO document
2018-08-03 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace France

CSR report 2017

Annual report
2018-07-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Financial security program

Bank policy
2018-05-03 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Annual Report 2017

Annual report
2018-04-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

CSR Highlights 2017

Annual report
2018-04-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Exclusion list

Bank policy
2018-03-02 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

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

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

Correspondence
2018-01-16 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Defence and security sector policy

Bank policy
2017-12-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Unconventional Oil and Gas - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2017-12-19 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Major international banks continue to finance palm oil company Indofood despite evidence of systemic labor abuses

Forest & Finance Briefing
NGO document
2017-11-30 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK Indonesia & Profundo

The human cost of conflict palm oil - revisited

How PepsiCo, Banks and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil perpetuate Indofood's worker exploitation
NGO document
2017-11-30 00:00:00 | RAN, OPPUK & International Labor Rights Forum

Position on the tobacco industry

Bank policy
2017-11-24 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Commitments to the environment

Bank policy
2017-10-17 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

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

BNP Paribas Fossil Bank Briefing 2017

English version
BankTrack publication
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre

BNP Paribas Fossil Bank Briefing 2017

French version
BankTrack publication
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre

Sector Policy - Palm oil

Bank policy
2017-05-11 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

CSR report 2016

Annual report
2017-03-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Annual report 2016

Annual report
2017-03-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from BankTrack to Thun Group on concerns regarding Thun Group discussion paper on human rights

Correspondence
2017-03-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack

French Banks' Dangerous Liaisons with the Israeli Settlement Enterprise

NGO document
2017-03-10 00:00:00 | Al-Haq, Association France Palestine Solidarité, Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement, Confédération Générale du Travail, Fair Finance France, Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme and Union Syndicale SOLIDAIRES

Comments on Thun Group of Banks Discussion Paper

on the Implications of UN Guiding Principles 13 & 17 In a Corporate and Investment Banking Context
Other document
2017-02-21 00:00:00 | Prof. John G. Ruggie

Letter from BankTrack and others to Thun Group of Banks on Significant Concerns Regarding Thun Group Discussion Paper

Correspondence
2017-02-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack and others

Coal-Fired Power Generation Sector Policy

Bank policy
2017-02-08 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Dirty Bankers

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

Letter from BNP Paribas to BankTrack on Dakota Access Pipeline

Correspondence
2016-12-02 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from 500 organisations to BNP Paribas on financing DAPL

Correspondence
2016-11-30 00:00:00 | 500 organisations

Protecting the Leuser Ecosystem

A Shared Responsibility
NGO document
2016-11-07 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network

2015 Annual Report

Annual report
2016-07-27 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Corporate Social Responsibility 2015 Report

Annual report
2016-07-01 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Shorting the Climate

Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016
BankTrack publication
2016-06-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, Oil Change International

Poland – Banks funding the dirtiest form of coal

BankTrack publication
2016-06-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Green Paper, Red Lines

Requirements for pulp and paper industry finance
BankTrack publication
2016-06-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network

BNP Paribas Coal Bank Briefing 2016

BankTrack publication
2016-05-26 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre France

Human Rights Impact Briefing #2: Drummond and paramilitary violence in Colombia

BankTrack publication
2016-05-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Suppliers' CSR Charter

Bank policy
2016-05-09 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Agriculture Sector Policy

Bank policy
2015-12-08 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

EU Investors, Land Grabs and Deforestation: Case-Studies

Briefing note
NGO document
2015-06-15 00:00:00 | Fern

2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Annual report
2015-05-18 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas Coal Bank Briefing 2015

French version
BankTrack publication
2015-05-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre

BNP Paribas Coal Bank Briefing 2015

English version
BankTrack publication
2015-05-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre

The end of coal?

2015 Coal Finance Report Card
BankTrack publication
2015-05-04 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club

Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia - Executive Summary

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

Letter from EPN to Banks investing in April on APRIL

Correspondence
2014-12-10 00:00:00 | EPN

Banking on Coal 2014

BankTrack publication
2014-10-29 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Dirty Profits III

Reporting on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights 
NGO document
2014-10-01 00:00:00 | Facing Finance

The Green Tigers

Which Southeast Asian Companies Will Prosper in the New Age of Forest Conservation?
NGO document
2014-09-23 00:00:00 | Forest Heroes

Environmental and Social Responsibility Report 2013

Annual report
2014-07-12 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

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

Commitments regarding the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing

Bank policy
2014-05-27 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Letter from BankTrack to signatory banks on Green Bond Principles

Correspondence
2014-04-09 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Annual Report 2013

Serving our clients in a changing world
Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00

Nuclear Power - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2013-07-26 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Oil Sands - Sector Policy

Bank policy
2013-07-26 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

2012 Report on Environmental and Social Responsibility

Annual report
2013-06-26 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

2012 Annual Report

Annual report
2013-05-13 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

French financial institutions energy guidance notes

Other bank document
2013-02-05 00:00:00 | ORSE

Dirty Profits

Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights
NGO document
2012-12-19 00:00:00 | Facing Finance

Letter from MASS to BNP Paribas

Correspondence
2012-12-10 00:00:00 | MASS

Letter from BankTrack et al. to various financial institutions on APP

Correspondence
2012-11-06 00:00:00 | BankTrack et al.

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

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

A bank in reverse

To what extent is the Belgian banking sector operating in the real economy?
NGO document
2012-01-14 00:00:00 | FairFin

Goods and activities on exclusion list

Bank policy
2011-12-31 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Bankrolling climate change

A look into the portfolios of the world`s largest banks
BankTrack publication
2011-11-30 00:00:00 | urgewald, BankTrack, Groundwork

2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change

Other document
2011-10-19 00:00:00 | IIGCC, INCR, IGCC, UNEP-FI, PRI

Sector Policy - Wood Pulp

Bank policy
2011-09-13 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas Cluster Munitions Investments

Other document
2011-05-25 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen & IKV Pax Christi

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

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

Media briefing – BNP Paribas and dangers of financing nuclear power

NGO document
2010-10-21 00:00:00 | Greenpeace

Bankers on Tenterhooks

Climate change: co-funded by banks operating in Belgium
NGO document
2010-06-02 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen

Response to NGO letter concerning NT2 of 100327

Correspondence
2010-05-27 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas

Nuclear Banks, No Thanks!

BankTrack publication
2010-05-25 00:00:00 | Greenpeace, urgewald, BankTrack, other NGOs

Close the Gap

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

BNP Paribas cluster munitions investments

Other document
2010-04-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, IKV PAX Christi

Summary Table 'Hall of Fame and runners-up'

NGO document
2010-04-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, IKV PAX Christi

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.

BNP Paribas cluster munitions financing

Other document
2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen et. al.

Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS, a shared responsibility

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

French insurances : guaranteed climate change?

NGO document
2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre

Assurances françaises : changements climatiques garantis?

NGO document
2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre

Assurances françaises : changements climatiques garantis?

NGO document
2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre

Profiles of European Banks

NGO document
2008-01-11 00:00:00 | Ceres

Environnement: Comment choisir ma banque?

NGO document
2007-03-06 00:00:00 | Les amis de la Terre

Banques françaises et environnement : presque tout reste à faire

NGO document
2006-03-06 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
Accountability
Grievances
Response tracking

BNP Paribas has a whistleblowing channel, which allows external stakeholders to raise concerns, including those related to human rights. 

Stakeholders may also raise complaints via the OECD National Contact Points (see OECD Watch guidance).

BNP Paribas 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 BNP Paribas'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
Banks and Dirty Diesel: Vitol and Trafigura (May 2017)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank did not publicly respond.

Following the bank's response: Although it responded, the bank required it to be kept confidential. As this is not a public response, the score remains unchanged.

Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

No information available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action.

Following the bank's response: The bank has not provided any public information on its engagement with the company or whether it took any appropriate action, therefore the score remains unchanged.

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
Banks profiting from the construction and hotel boom in Qatar (November 2022)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded publicly but did not speak to the substance of the issues raised; rather, the bank notes that it "cannot provide any comment on the relations and dialogue we have with our clients", it took note that "the research focuses on the provision of loans, underwriting services and other credits, as well as investments in the share and bonds issued by the targeted companies, and does not distinguish which of these financial services are dedicated to activities in Qatar", and it referenced its relevant human rights policies and procedures.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank does not indicate whether it plans to engage or has already engaged its clients or investee companies on this issue.
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
"No Questions Asked: Profiting from the construction and hotel boom in Qatar " report, November 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon (July 2019)
0.5
0
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank publicly responded providing details of its policies related to the sector, but it did not acknowledge its link to the impact or comment on or respond to the substance of the issues raised.

Following the bank's response: The score remains unchanged as the required elements of the response are not present.

Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank does not detail whether or how it has engaged with its clients in the sector, nor whether it took appropriate action in the specific case that was raised.

The bank's response stated that in 2021 it revised its Agriculture sector policy, resulting in it only providing financial products or services to companies with a strategy to achieve zero deforestation in their production and supply chains by 2025 at the latest. This constitutes evidence that the bank has reviewed its management systems to prevent such impacts from occuring in the future. However this is not considered an appropriate and sufficient remedy by rights-holders involved in raising the issue with the bank as the policy does not include the commitments requested by them in the report; therefore it receives a half score.

Following the response: The bank's score was amended to 0.5.

Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.

Following the bank's response: The bank has not provided details on how it monitored the progress of specific companies or how the bank monitored the impact on rights-holders involved in raising the issue with the bank of its own action of updating the Agriculture sector policy. Therefore, the score remains unchanged.

More info
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2019
Don't Buy into Occupation report (November 2022)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded publicly but without acknowledging the bank's link to the impact.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank provides no information on whether it has engaged with its clients or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank provided no information to indicate it is monitoring the actions of its clients, or actions it might itself have taken in response to the impacts raised.
More info
"Don't Buy Into Occupation" report, November 2022
Drummond and paramilitary violence in Colombia (May 2016)
2
1
1
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
1
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly responded acknowledging its link to the company and commenting on and responding to the specific issues raised. The bank provided detailed information regarding its decision to stop providing finance to the company after its due diligence "flagged the company for ongoing ESG (including human rights) controversies".
Action
1
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank stated that after financing Drummond in 2010, it declined to provide further finance in 2012, and decided in 2014 not to provide financial service to the company until further notice, due to "ongoing ESG (including human rights controversies". This is considered as appropriate action taken by the bank itself.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on there the bank monitored the impacts or the actions of its clients
More info
BankTrack Human Rights Briefing, May 2016
East African Crude Oil Pipeline (March 2021)
1
0.5
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
BNP Paribas confirmed in January 2020 that it was not involved in the project. It did not comment on whether it may become involved in the project in future. This is sufficient for a half score.

Following media reporting: News sources subsequently reported that the bank will not finance the project, however, the bank has not responded to stakeholders or confirmed its position publicly, so there is no change in score.

Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank confirmed it was not financing the project, although it did not provide detail on its future position. This is credited with a half score.

Following media reporting: Media reports suggest the bank has taken appropriate action by refusing to provide finance to the project, however, the bank has not set this position out publicly, so there is no change in score.

Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored measures taken by its client to address the impacts associated with the project.
Finance for JBS and links to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (March 2023)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded citing client confidentiality saying it "cannot comment the data linked to our clients". The bank provided a list of its applicable policies but failed to acknowledge a link to the company or impacts raised.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action. The bank mentions it has "ongoing dialogue" with its clients on the issue of deforestation more broadly, but it is not clear the bank has engaged JBS specifically on the impacts raised.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
"Global Witness calls on financiers to stop financing JBS", March 2023
Myanmar: Equity exposure to companies linked to the military regime (October 2021)
1.5
1
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
1
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly responded by providing an overview of its policies, acknowledging the existence of links with some companies listed.
Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly explains its compliance with ESG policies and with the international sanctions imposed. The bank states whether it engaged directly with companies by either entering into dialogue, scoring the companies or excluding them. Nonetheless the bank does not set out what specific actions they have sought from those companies.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available about whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
New bank links to Myanmar junta and atrocities found, July 28, 2021
UN human rights complaint regarding Saudi Aramco and its financiers (July 2023)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded publicly but it did not acknowledge a link to the impacts raised or to the company in question.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank did not provide information on whether it has engaged with its client or took appropriate action on the impacts raised. In its response, the bank outlined its approach to climate change and human rights more broadly.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
, ClientEarth: UN warns Aramco and its financiers over their role in driving climate-fuelled human rights violations, June 2023
Don't Buy into Occupation report (September 2021)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank did not respond publicly.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank 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.

Following the bank's response: The bank has not provided details on how it monitored the progress of specific companies or how the bank monitored the impact on rights-holders involved in raising the issue with the bank of its own action of updating the Agriculture sector policy. Therefore, the score remains unchanged.

More info
"Don't Buy Into Occupation" report, Sept 2021
ArcelorMittal steel impacts (June 2024)
1
0.5
0.5
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded publicly acknowledging that ArcelorMittal is a client of theirs, but without speaking to the substance of the issues raised.
Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank stated that it has engaged with ArcelorMittal on the impacts raised. However, it did not set out how it has exercised its leverage or taken any further steps to address the impacts.
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 summary of bank responses here. See this bank's response here.
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 responded, stating: "for confidentiality reasons we do not communicate on our relationship with companies beyond what is already public."
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank stated that the information we provided "is very valuable in the framework of the engagement dialogue we have with our clients." However, 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 responded, stating: "For banking confidentiality reasons, we are not able to comment on our current relationship with any specific company, regardless of them being our clients or not."
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 BankTrack sent the bank here.
Average
85%
0.46
0.23
0.23
0
Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that BNP Paribas provided US$ 186.793 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2023. In 2023 only, BNP Paribas provided US$ 3.961 Billion for oil, gas and coal companies expanding fossil fuels. Find further details on BNP Paribas 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 BNP Paribas

Banking on Climate Chaos fossil fuel finance data

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 BNP Paribas’ fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of BNP Paribas in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of BNP Paribas in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker

False Solutions Tracker

BankLast update
Country
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Energy grids and storage
Hydropower
Hydrogen
Solid Biomass
Biofuels
CCUS
Nuclear Power
Details
BNP Paribas
2025-04-30
FRA
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.

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
BNP Paribas
2025-04-30
FRA
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 BNP Paribas in its 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark, where it achieved 8.5 points out of 15 and was ranked as a “moderate achiever”.

The bank scored 0.5 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, BNP Paribas scored 0.55 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 BNP Paribas 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
BNP Paribas
FRA
7.5
Front runner 7.5
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
BNP Paribas
FRA
8.5
Moderate achiever 8.5
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

BNP Paribas’ 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 4.2 out of 10 and ranking it as a front runner. BNP Paribas achieved a score of 5.7 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 6.1 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. In addition, BankTrack and the Environmental Paper Network have assessed BNP Paribas’ policies related to the pulp and paper sector.

Between 2016 and 2022, BNP Paribas provided USD 5,682 million in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors and held investments amounting to USD 24 million as of 2022.

BankTrack has also assessed BNP Paribas' policies related to the wood biomass sector and found that biomass is not mentioned in its policies and no safeguards or exclusions are in place for wood biomass. For more information, see the links below.

Forests & Finance

Banks and beef

Banks and palm oil

Banks and pulp & paper

Banks and biomass

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
BNP Paribas
2022-09-21
FRA
4.2
Front runner 4.2
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
BNP Paribas
2022-09-21
FRA
5.7
Front runner 5.7
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
BNP Paribas
2022-09-21
FRA
6.1
Front runner 6.1
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

BNP Paribas 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 BNP Paribas to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. BNP Paribas publicly condemned the war. BNP Paribas is considered by Leave-Russia.org to be "suspended" its operations in Russia. We categorise its exposure to Russia as moderate, with over $3.3 billion of financial assets. BNP Paribas supports the Russian fossil fuel industry through investments, loans, and underwriting. 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), BNP Paribas is required to set interim targets for 2030 for high emission priority sectors. For BNP Paribas, this includes its lending to the steel sector. You can see BNP Paribas’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 BNP Paribas provided US$ 4.4 billion in loans and underwriting to developers of new metallurgical coal between 2016 and 2022. Find further details on BNP Paribas’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 BNP Paribas metallurgical coal policy below.

According to a reportby Reclaim Finance, between 2016 and June 2023, BNP Paribas provided $9.3 billion in finance to the fossil-steel industry, making it the 9th largest financier worldwide. Find further details on BNP Paribas' steel financing and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report. 

Metallurgical Coal Financing: Time to call it off 2023

Coal policy tool

Steeling our future: The banks propping up coal-based steel
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…

2024

International banks no longer involved with Santos’ Barossa gas project

News just broke that BNP Paribas and The Export-Import Bank of Korea, two major international banks, are no longer involved in the financing of Santos’ Barossa gas project. It was reported today that BNP Paribas, the world’s ninth-largest bank headquartered in France, is no longer acting as a financial…

2023

French bank Société Générale withdraws from Rio Grande LNG

The French bank had been the target of a coalition of US and French organizations since 2017, when it was engaged as financial advisor by the project sponsor, NextDecade. The organizations welcome this news and call on all financial institutions to stay away from this disastrous LNG project. 1  This public announcement…

2021

Three major French banks will not finance EACOP, according to French media

The #StopEACOP campaign warmly welcomes the news that the three largest French banks, BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, will not be financing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a proposed 1,445-kilometer heated oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania. This…

BNP Paribas to limit finance to customers using converted Amazon forest land

French bank BNP Paribas said it would not finance customers producing or buying beef or soybeans from land cleared or converted after 2008 in the Amazon. The bank was outlining a corporate policy to fight deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado regions. BNP Paribas also said it would only provide financial products…

2019

BNP Paribas backs away from US private prison industry

In July 2019 it was reported that BNP Paribas has become the latest bank after JP Morgan, Bank of America, US Bank and SunTrust to say it will no longer finance the US private prison operators CoreCivic Inc and GEO Group Inc. The move follows campaigning from a coalition of groups led by Families Belong…

Banks step away from US private prisons

As of June 2019, six banks, Fifth Third Bank, BNP Paribas, SunTrust Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, have announced that they will no longer finance companies that operate private prison and detention centers, including CoreCivic and GEO Group. Two other banks, U.S. Bank and Barclays,…

2017

BNP Paribas to stop funding for tobacco industry

Bloomberg reports that BNP Paribas SA will cease funding and advising tobacco companies: "The French bank will halt transactions and investments related to the sector and “progressively disengage” from relationships with tobacco clients, Laurence Pessez, the bank’s global head of corporate…

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…

BNP Paribas takes the global lead in excluding unconventional fossil fuels from portfolio

On October 12, BNP Paribas committed to help accelerate the energy transition and drastically reduce its financing of so called unconventional fossil fuels: tar sands, shale gas, oil and gas exploration projects in the Arctic region, as well as all related infrastructure for transport and export. Read more.

2016

BNP Paribas blacklists Drummond for environmental and human rights reasons

BNP Paribas stated in May 2016 that after financing the coal company Drummond in 2010, it declined to provide further finance in 2012, and decided in 2014 not to provide financial services to the company until further notice, due to "ongoing ESG (including human rights) controversies". The announcement came in…

2015

“Big Three” French banks rule out financing for Rampal coal project

In June, the three largest French banks, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Société Génerale, have said they will not finance the Rampal coal power project, on the edge of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh. The move comes six months after two Norwegian pension funds withdrew from India's…

Three French banks refuse to finance Galilee Basin projects

In April, BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole all ruled out finance to coal mining projects in the Galilee Basin in Queenland, Australia. The planned new coal mine and port is expected to have devastating effects on the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Site. Read more.…

Climate breakthrough as string of banks dump coal financing

In May, Bank of America and Crédit Agricole became the first major banks to announce plans to stop financing coal mining. These announcements marked a hugely significant win and a breakthrough moment in the fight to end financing for the coal industry. The second half of 2015, in the run-up to the…

2014

More US and European Banks step back from Mountaintop Removal

In 2013, BNP Paribas pledged to cut financing for top producers of mountaintop removal coal. In spring 2014, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy committing to aggressively reduce its financing relationships with mountaintop removal coal mining companies. And in April 2014, Royal Bank of Scotland followed suit,…

2012

Bulgarian government cancels Belene Nuclear Plant

In March 2012 the Bulgarian government officially announced the cancellation of the Belene nuclear power project. BankTrack members had worked to stop the project as part of an international coalition since 2006, when Western potential investors and financiers were approached for the project. In 2010 BNP Paribas withdrew…