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Taunusanlage 12
60325 Frankfurt am Main
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CEO/chair Christian Sewing
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Deutsche Bundesbank & Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
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listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange & NYSE

Deutsche Bank's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Deutsche Bank is a German global investment bank that was founded in 1870. The Bank operates throughout the world and has a large presence in Germany and Europe, but is also active in North America, Asia and in emerging markets. Deutsche Bank offers a variety of financial services. Its key activities include corporate banking, private banking and asset management.

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

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Sustainability

Environmental and Social Policy Framework

Bank policy
2024-09-25 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Sustainable Finance Framework

Bank policy
2024-02-07 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Statement on human rights

Bank policy
2023-02-28 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

Bank policy
2022-06-08 00:00:00 | Deutsche Banks

Suppliers' Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-12-01 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Climate statement

Bank policy
2020-08-12 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Sustainable finance framework

Bank policy
2020-08-12 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank to end global business activities in coal mining by 2025

Bank policy
2020-07-27 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

General statement on anti-money laundering requirements

Bank policy
2020-01-08 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2019-11-04 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Group code of conduct

Bank policy
2018-08-31 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Klimaschutz-Selbstverpflichtung des FinanzsektorsTags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance
Banking Environment InitiativeTags:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
German Sustainability CodeTags:
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Green Bond PrinciplesTags: bond issuance | investment | sustainable development
ISO 14001Tags: transparency
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
OECD Guidelines for Multinational EnterprisesTags: consumer safety | corporate social responsibility | corruption | cultural preservation | dams | human rights | mining and processing | OECD | supply chain | taxation | worker rights
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
Soft Commodities CompactTags: Deforestation | forest
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human RightsTags: United Nations | human rights
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business to tackle discrimination against LGBTI peopleTags: corporate social responsibility | human rights | United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human RightsTags: human rights | United Nations
Wolfsberg PrinciplesTags: finance | corruption
Dodgy Deals

Deutsche Bank 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 Deutsche Bank's link to these deals.

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New investigation finds banks may violate coal policies through steel loophole

CSOs reiterate call to close loopholes, and adopt policies that phase out finance for ALL coal
2025-06-24 | BankTrack
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De UvA en de HvA zochten naar een duurzame bank en kwamen uit bij … de ING

De Universiteit en Hogeschool van Amsterdam stappen over naar de ING. Bij de aanbesteding zou duurzaamheid centraal hebben gestaan. Hoe kwamen ze dan toch bij de minst duurzame bank van Nederland uit? Duurzame banken maakten bij voorbaat al minder kans, zeggen experts.
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2025-06-19 | Follow The Money
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Banks fossil fuel finance totals $869 billion in 2024, a dramatic increase in financing

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos reports $429 billion USD going to fossil fuel expanding companies; totaling $1.6 trillion to these companies since 2021
2025-06-17 | New York | BankTrack, urgewald, Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED), Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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I disastri ambientali finanziati da banche e istituti di credito

Dalla miniera di carbone in Australia al gas in Mozambico: le banche finanziano progetti fossili legati a gravi disastri ambientali
2025-06-17 | Valori.it
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Banche spagnole e fossili: 29 miliardi di greenwashing nel 2024

Nel 2024 Santander, BBVA e La Caixa hanno investito quasi 29 miliardi nelle fossili. Il greenwashing bancario spagnolo è sotto i riflettori
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2025-06-17 | Valori.it
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The NZBA has chosen the wrong side of history: what next for net-zero banking?

The UN-convened, bank-led coalition was never up to its task. It’s time for banks to demonstrate individual commitment.
2025-05-28 | Quentin Aubineau – BankTrack
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Glencore’s coal expansion fueled by European banks

2025-05-20 | Reclaim Finance
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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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Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined $27 million for greenwashing

2025-04-02 | Reuters
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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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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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Without tackling plastic finance, we walk on a dead-end road

2025-01-29 | Manon Stravens - Profundo
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Banks urged to refuse MUFG’s call to finance Papua LNG

2024-12-18 | ActionAid Australia, Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Friends of the Earth Japan, Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Market Forces, Reclaim Finance
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Banks and investors’ unrestricted finance for LNG is fueling a future climate bomb

2024-12-05 | Reclaim Finance
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Fair Finance Guide 8.0: Banken-Check findet Fortschritte bei Transparenz und Nachhaltigkeit, deckt aber auch neue Defizite auf

2024-11-28 | Facing Finance
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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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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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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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Null Bock auf Netto Null – Deutsche Banken und Versicherer kommen völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen und Zielen des Pariser Klimaabkommens nicht ausreichend nach und gefährden Klimaziele

2024-11-13 | Facing Finance
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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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‘You only go to the party if everyone is going’: finance bosses to skip COP29

Business expectations lowered for summit to be held in Baku next month
2024-10-08 | Financial Times
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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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NGOs verlangen Stopp von Kohlekonzern-Finanzierung

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2024-10-07 | Tagesspiegel
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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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Global protests call on major banks to stop financing coal miner Adaro

2024-09-30 | Jakarta | BankTrack
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ING is lone too-big-to-fail bank in test-run for new CO2 metric

ING Groep takes the lead in validating climate commitments amid growing scrutiny of finance industry standards.
2024-09-28 | Moneyweb
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Kein Geschäft mit Kohle

Das indonesische Unternehmen Adaro expandiert in fossile Energie. Klima-Organisationen wollen Banken dazu bewegen, ihm kein Geld mehr zu leihen.
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2024-09-26 | Frankfurter Rundschau
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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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Gulf Coast residents and major organizations call on financial institutions to phase out financing of LNG projects in the Rio Grande Valley

“We will hold any financial institutions that choose to support these projects accountable for such impacts.”
2024-07-22 | New York City | Sierra Club
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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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Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

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2024-05-28 | Mongabay
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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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Russian court seizes €700mn assets from UniCredit, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank

2024-05-18 | Financial Times
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Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement; $705 billion provided in 2023 alone; JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho, and Bank of America are worst 3 funders

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report with an updated methodology offers comprehensive look at who’s bankrolling the climate crisis
2024-05-13 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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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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Western banks in Russia paid €800mn in taxes to Kremlin last year

2024-04-29 | Financial Times
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NGOs call on banks and investors to cut TotalEnergies’ main source of finance

Some 60 NGOs from around the world signed an open letter calling on banks and investors to stop participating in bonds issued by TotalEnergies
2024-04-10 | Reclaim Finance
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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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Financiers warned of huge risks to communities and biodiversity as Rio Tinto approves world’s biggest mining project

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

The largest banks in India and Indonesia – global hotspots of the coal industry's growth – have no coal exclusion policy
2024-01-23 | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
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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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The financial institutions behind the worst fossil fuel bonds in 2023

2023-11-16 | Reclaim Finance
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European banks and investors, including Allianz, Deutsche Bank, and Intesa Sanpaolo, investing over €700m in companies tied to brutal violence against civilians in South Sudan

2023-11-14 | Global Witness
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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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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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Deutsche Bank will Naturrisiken managen lernen

Das größte deutsche Kreditinstitut hat einen Biodiversitätsbeirat berufen, der am Montag erstmals getagt hat. Er soll allen Geschäftsbereichen helfen, Naturrisiken und Auswirkungen auf Ökosysteme zu managen, wie Markus Müller, ESG-Investmentchef der Privatkundenbank, gegenüber Tagesspiegel Background sagte.
2023-10-10 | Tagesspiegel
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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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Insider trading scandal should serve as the ultimate red line for Adani's financial backers

Toxic Bonds Network calls on financial institutions to stop supporting Adani or be considered complicit in its deception
2023-08-31 | The Sunrise Project
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Banks raised "green" finance for NordGold and then left communities affected by its Guinean goldmine stranded

Six European and Japanese banks helped mining company Nordgold raise $200 million “ESG-linked” financing. But they failed to address the impacts of its Lefa gold mine in Guinea, where affected people are seeking urgent relocation.
2023-08-24 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | BankTrack
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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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Policy analysis report: Moving away from mass destruction

2023-07-27 | ICAN, PAX
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EU banks in Russia: next in line for asset-grab?

2023-07-26 | Brussels, Belgium | EU Observer
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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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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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Philippines communities are fighting back against gas & LNG build-out in the Verde Island Passage

The region has been designated to become the epicenter of fossil fuel expansion in Southeast Asia
2023-05-25 | BankTrack, Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), Rainforest Action Network
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Financing mining for transition minerals in South Africa: Are banks doing enough on human rights?

New briefing finds banks linked to companies extracting transition minerals are overlooking serious human rights and environmental concerns
2023-04-26 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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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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Fair Finance Guide 7.0

Viele Banken bessern ihre Nachhaltigkeitsrichtlinien verfügen aber häufig über zu schwache bzw. ungenügende Richtlinien zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels
2023-03-23 | Fair Finance Guide Germany
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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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Deutsche Bank tightens finance policy on coal, but not on oil and gas

2023-03-02 | Reuters
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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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The number of major banks refusing to support EACOP reaches 24

2022-12-31 | BankTrack
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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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Qatar’s gas output increase could cause catastrophic global heating, report says

If Qatar exploits all its reserves it will add 50bn metric tons of CO2 to atmosphere, more than entire annual emissions of whole world
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2022-12-08 | The Guardian
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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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Faires Geld braucht die Welt

Neue ÖPNV-Infokampagne in NRW für mehr Nachhaltigkeit im Bankensektor
2022-12-02 | lifePR
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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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Big European financial institutions invest heavily but turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in Qatar

2022-11-07 | Fair Finance International
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Deutsche Bank recognizes the need to phase-out fossils, but fails to halt finance for fossil expansion

2022-10-26 | Reclaim Finance
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Deutsche Bank pledges to cut emissions from loans to oil and gas

In the oil and gas sector, the bank plans a 23% reduction in financed emissions by 2030 and a 90% decrease by 2050.
2022-10-21 | Bloomberg
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European Parliament passes emergency resolution against human rights violations & environmental threats linked to EACOP

2022-09-16 | BankTrack, #StopEACOP
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Legal advice says Deutsche Bank breaching own coal policy by financing companies building new coal mines

2022-08-10 | Market Forces
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From local to global: Peruvian Earth Defenders confront Deutsche Bank in Germany

2022-08-01 | Amazon Watch
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From local to global: Peruvian earth defenders confront Deutsche Bank in Germany

Delegation of Indigenous leaders from the Amazon built networks of support and solidarity in the movement against oil expansion in the Amazon
2022-08-01 | Amazon Watch
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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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From Peru to Uganda, activists call on Deutsche Bank to drop fossil finance

2022-06-28 | Reuters
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From Peru to Uganda, activists call on Deutsche Bank to drop fossil finance

2022-06-28 | Reuters
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Banks and financiers back beef giant JBS to the tune of almost $1bn despite links to widespread deforestation, land grabbing and slave labour in the Amazon

2022-06-23 | Brazil | Global Witness
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The Cash Before The Killing

Newly Released Documents Reveal International Funding Trail Preceding the Murder of Berta Cáceres
2022-06-23 | The Intercept
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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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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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German police raid DWS and Deutsche Bank over greenwashing allegations

Asset manager accused of misleading investors about ESG factors in its financial products
2022-05-31 | The Financial Times
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Launching of Banking Responsibility Research on Cement Industry Financing

2022-05-25 | Fair Finance Asia, Prakarsa - Welfare Initiative for Better Societies
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Win! Deutsche Bank abandons Whitehaven Coal’s bond issue

Huge win for campaign to stop dirty coal corporation building three new or expanded coal mines
2022-05-20 | Market Forces
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Seven financiers abandon TotalEnergies' EACOP pipeline in a week

Marsh McLennan revealed as insurance arranger as total number of banks steering clear grows to 20
2022-05-20 | Africa | BankTrack, #StopEACOP
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Indigenous custodians target Deutsche Bank for ‘breaking promise’ on Adani

2022-05-18 | National Indigenous Times
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Eyes closed, costs down, profits up

Dirty Profits 9 published today by Facing Finance
2022-05-18 | Berlin | Facing Finance
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Deutsche Bank not financing controversial African oil pipeline, source says

2022-05-16 | Reuters
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Civil society groups respond to reports that Deutsche Bank will not finance East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2022-05-16 | Frankfurt, Germany | BankTrack, #StopEACOP, 350.org, KoalaKollectiv, Urgewald
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12 banks lend $8 billion to oil and gas expansionist TotalEnergies

2022-05-13 | Reclaim Finance
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NGOs reveal top international companies, banks, and investors that fuel Russia's war machine

2022-04-04 | Berlin | urgewald, Ecodefense
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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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British MPs urge global banks to close Russian offices ‘without delay’

Labour’s Margaret Hodge says banks including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse have ‘moral duty’ to exit quickly
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2022-03-06 | The Guardian
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Climate Groups Press Banks, Asset Managers to Sever Russian Ties

The activists are referring to the financiers as the “Putin 100.”
2022-03-04 | Bloomberg Green
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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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Finance sector has moral imperative to exclude Russian fossil fuel firms

Financial institutions most exposed to Russian oil, gas and coal should stop propping up Putin’s illegal war on Ukraine
2022-03-03 | Paris | Reclaim Finance
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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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Russia has become an overnight pariah. Banks should take rapid action to divest.

European and US banks like JPMorgan, Citi, UniCredit and Deutsche Bank have been recent supporters of Russian oil, gas and coal
2022-03-02 | Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack
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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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Who will finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline?

Fifteen banks are out, but who is in? JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, MUFG and Natixis are among those with questions to answer.
2022-02-10 | Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack
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IEEFA: Deutsche Bank claims responsible climate leadership while bankrolling yet more thermal coal

Funds facilitated by Deutsche Bank will enable Whitehaven Coal to continue building greenfield coal mining capacity
2021-12-16 | Tim Buckley - IEEFA
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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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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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Coal finance: Germany's top banks face pressure to tighten lending policies

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2021-11-04 | S&P Global
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Banks are still financing fossil fuels – while signing up to net zero pledges

2021-11-04 | The Guardian
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Banks’ green pledges under scrutiny

Financial sector pressured to cut exposure to carbon-intensive industries
2021-11-02 | Financial Times
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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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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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Deutsche Bank prepares to raise funds for Whitehaven

Financial news source Debtwire reported last week that Deutsche Bank is preparing to raise funds for Whitehaven Coal’s climate-wrecking coal business.
2021-10-01 | Market Forces
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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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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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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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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered break promise and loan US$1 billion to Adani coal miner

2021-08-20 | Market Forces
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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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USD 4.2tn investors call on leading banks to strengthen climate ambitions before COP26

Investors including Fidelity International and M&G Investments call on banks to demonstrate their climate credentials by committing to phase out coal finance before COP26
2021-07-07 | London | ShareAction
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Brazilian meat company JBS issues "sustainability-linked" bonds: Forests & Finance coalition responds

2021-06-25 | Forests & Finance
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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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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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Greenwashing bei der Deutschen Bank: Kautschuk-Plantagen in Kamerun

2021-05-25 | Fair Finance Guide Germany
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Deutsche Bank: „Understanding of sustainability stuck in the 90ies“

2021-05-21 | urgewald
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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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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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Cameroon: Deutsche Bank accused of financing deforestation

2021-04-20 | Afrik21
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Deutsche Bank must end its Sustainability Farce in Central Africa

2021-04-15 | Greenpeace
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Deutsche Bank must end its sustainability farce in Central Africa

2021-04-15 | Hamburg | Greenpeace
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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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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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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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Beefing up risk: the exposure of JBS’ financiers to financial, regulatory and reputational risks

2021-02-11 | Marília Monteiro - BankTrack, Merel van der Mark - Environmental Paper Network
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Adani Ports bonds issue: DB backed out on green concerns

2021-01-28 | The Economic Times
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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 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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Citi, Deutsche Bank, ANZ committed for trial in Australian criminal cartel case

2020-12-08 | Reuters
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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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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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A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
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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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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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Deutsche Bank’s new policies: much needed movement, still a long way to Paris

2020-07-27 | Berlin, Frankfurt | urgewald
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Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation pushes Deutsche Bank for fossil fuel divestment amidst pipeline shutdowns, a global pandemic and the climate crisis

2020-07-16 | San Francisco Bay Area | Divest Invest Protect, WECAN
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Deutsche Bank to pay $150m fine to settle charges linked to Epstein dealings

2020-07-07 | The Guardian
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Deutsche Bank and Halcyon Agri Corporation partner on sustainability through innovative new loan

2020-07-02 | Deutsche Bank
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Revealed: UK banks and investors' $2bn backing of meat firms linked to Amazon deforestation

2020-06-04 | The Guardian
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Major blow to Keystone XL pipeline as judge revokes key permit

Campaigners welcomed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for tribal rights and environmental protection
2020-04-16 | The Guardian
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Reckless Keystone XL decision by TC Energy endorsed by JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Canadian peers

Big banks lead multi-billion dollar bond issuances days after company pushes pipeline forward amid global pandemic
2020-04-03 | San Francisco | 350 Seattle, Amazon Watch, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network
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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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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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Twenty percent of Dominican Republic territory at risk from fossil fuel auction, banks warned to steer clear

2019-11-26 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | CNLCC, Re:Common, BankTrack
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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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Aramco IPO: These are the banks and advisers on world's biggest sale

2019-11-03 | Bloomberg
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Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction

New investigation by Global Witness uncovers for the first time a truly global picture of major financial players driving $44 billion into companies directly or indirectly involved in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and Papua New Guinea.
2019-09-23 | Global Witness
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Occupied, annexed and cashed up

How international companies and German financial institutions benefit from and support activities contrary to international law in occupied and annexed territories
2019-08-13 | Berlin | Facing Finance
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Leak exposes millions of dollars in new payments in Odebrecht cash-for-contracts scandal

2019-06-25 | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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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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Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank discontinue discussions

Deutsche Bank press release
2019-04-25 | Deutsche Bank
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Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme

2019-04-17 | The Guardian
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UniCredit waits in wings to bid for Germany’s Commerzbank

2019-04-04 | The Financial Times
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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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Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank go public on merger talks

2019-03-17 | Reuters
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These Are the Banks Caught Up in the Russia Money-Laundering Scandal

2019-03-06 | Bloomberg
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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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Deutsche Bank braced for merger with rival Commerzbank

2019-01-31 | The Irish Times
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Deutsche Bank Faces Growing U.S Scrutiny Over Money Laundering

2019-01-24 | Fortune.com
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Who’s banking the Coastal GasLink pipeline?

These banks are funding a threat to Wet'suwet'en land and abuse of Indigenous rights
2019-01-24 | San Francisco, USA | Elana Sulakshana - Rainforest Action Network
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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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Deutsche Bank headquarters raided over money laundering

2018-11-29 | BBC News
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Cum-ex tax scandal cost European treasuries €55 billion

2018-10-18 | Die Welt
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Masses march against corruption in Dominican Republic

2018-08-12 | teleSUR
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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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More Deutsche, Less Bank

2018-04-08 | Bloomberg
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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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Banken pumpen Milliarden in klimaschädliche Industrien

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2018-03-28 | Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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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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Operation Car Wash and a coal plant in the Dominican Republic – anti-corruption protestors are not giving up

2017-10-10 | Luca Manes – Re:Common
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Scandalo Lava Jato, Santo Domingo si ribella contro la corruzione. E c'entra anche l'Italia

2017-10-03 | l'Espresso
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“Responsible” investors under scrutiny for investing in climate-destroying banks

2017-09-26 | Rainforest Action Network
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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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Medina’s only option: terminate Odebrecht power plant contract

2017-08-28 | Dominican Today
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Coal-black image: Why does Deutsche Bank continue to run a consortium to finance two coal-fired power stations in Latin America? [German]

Kohlschwarzes Image - Warum führt die Deutsche Bank weiterhin ein Konsortium zur Finanzierung zweier Kohlekraftwerke in Lateinamerika an? Sie wollte doch künftig nur positiv auffallen.
2017-08-18 | Frankfurter Rundschau
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Punta Catalina perdería el financiamiento europeo que le resta para su terminación

2017-08-04 | Proceso
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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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Punta Catalina – the coal plant project that keeps on giving … a headache to European banks

2017-07-31 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
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150,000 People Representing more than $4 Billion Call on Banks to Defund Tar Sands Pipelines

2017-06-28 | Washington, DC | Divestinvest, Mazaska Talks
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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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Campaigners to call for Deutsche Bank exit from Dominican coal plant at annual meeting

- Deutsche is leading financial consortium for coal-fired power plant in Dominican Republic
- Massive bribery allegations against plant construction company Odebrecht
2017-05-17 | Frankfurt | BankTrack, urgewald, CNLCC
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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
Blog
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Europe’s biggest banks register €25 billion profit in tax havens

2017-03-27 | Fair Finance International, Oxfam
Blog
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Who's bankrolling TransCanada?

Banking on TransCanada means banking on Keystone XL
2017-03-24 | Alison Kirsch - Rainforest Action Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Standard Chartered and other major banks financing palm oil

2017-03-16 | Energy Desk Greenpeace
Blog
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Scandinavian banks linked to violations of indigenous peoples’ rights in Borneo

2017-03-07 | Stockholm, Sweden | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedwatch
Blog
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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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Power plant 'one year behind schedule'

2017-02-08 | Dominican Today
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Anti-impunity marches to continue

2017-02-03 | Dominican Today
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank pulls out of coal projects to meet Paris climate pledge

The biggest bank in Germany says all new investment will stop and existing exposure will be gradually reduced
2017-02-01 | Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche to stop financing for new coal projects

BankTrack mentioned
2017-02-01 | Environmental Finance
Blog
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Deutsche Bank puts first restrictions on coal finance, but still has long way to go

2017-01-31 | Frankfurt | BankTrack, urgewald
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

La Société Générale priée de renoncer à financer la centrale charbon de Punta Catalina

BankTrack mentioned
2017-01-26 | Boursier.com
Blog
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Dominicans on the march against Punta Catalina kickbacks, and want financiers out of the coal plant project

2017-01-23 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Odebrecht corruption in Dominican Republic – Five European banks urged to pull out of dirty coal plant financing

2017-01-18 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre, National Committee to Combat Climate Change
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Punta Catalina Commission to subpoena top officials

2017-01-17 | Dominican Today
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

March aims to indict corrupt officials, Odebrecht executives

2017-01-16 | Dominican Today
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Five European banks pressured not to tolerate corrupt practices at Dominican coal plant project

2017 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank takes first significant step out of coal sector financing

2017 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Odebrecht must be terminated: civil society group

2016-12-29 | Dominican Today
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Odebrecht $92 million bribe: Just hours to deadline, utility produces papers

2016-12-27 | Dominican Today
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

A graveyard of unfinished work left in development bank’s wake

2016-12-01 | Bloomberg
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New online platform reveals banks and investors financing companies linked to tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia

Financial sector under the spotlight in new international push to protect forests and forest communities
2016-09-06 | Singapore | Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Citi, Deutsche and JPMorgan censured for backing fossil fuel

BankTrack mentioned
2016-06-14 | The Financial Times
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European banks warned over raid on pension funds to finance disputed coal plant in Dominican Republic

2016-05-27 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | CNLCC, BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre France
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank blacklists mountaintop removal companies

2016-05-23 | urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank changes coal financing policy

Deutsche Bank continues lack of transparency on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining / Policy falls short of commitments needed to end this practice and address climate change
2016-03-11 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Labour standards violations in IOI Corporation’s Malaysian plantations

2016-02-16 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank blacklists mountaintop removal companies

2016 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The Green Climate Fund’s not-so-green partners

2015-12-15 | Euractiv
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Investor Alert on DTEK (Ukraine) debt restructuring

Banks urged to avoid carte blanche bailout for crisis-hit power monopoly
2015-10-28 | Kiev, Nijmegen | NECU and BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Even Deutsche Bank can show it’s committed to a low carbon ‘paradigm shift’ – by signing the Paris Pledge to quit coal

2015-07-21 | BankTrack blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Green Climate Fund partners with Deutsche Bank to green fury

2015-07-09 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Top coal funder Deutsche Bank to become Green Climate Fund partner

German giant one of 13 new organisations to join forces with flagship fund, but questions raised over fossil fuel backing
2015-07-07 | RTCC
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Top coal funder Deutsche Bank to become Green Climate Fund partner

2015-07-07 | Climate Home
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank 2015: 'Irresponsible, unlawful, reckless'

Bank should follow the divestment course of other investors – No more money for climate offenders and mountain top removal – environmental catastrophe is looming through new investments in Bangladesh
2015-05-21 | Berlin/Cologne | urgewald, Facing Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed

2015-02-19 | The Ecologist
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks Support Ethiopian Bond Sale; Monies Targeted for Destructive Dams, Land Grabs

2014-12-21 | Berkeley | Lori Pottinger, International Rivers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

China Tuna Industry officially withdraws Hong Kong IPO application

2014-12-10 | Greenpeace
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

'Record year' for bank coal financing as latest UN climate warning looms

2014-10-29 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Qld minister met Deutsche after coal port backdown

2014-10-22 | The Australian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank under pressure as Chinese Government joins Greenpeace, condemning bungled IPO

2014-10-16 | Greenpeace
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank under pressure as Chinese Government joins Greenpeace, condemning bungled IPO

2014-10-15 | Beijing / Hong Kong | Greenpeace
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Bumi’s Deadly Coal

New report reveals extensive water contamination and human rights violations by Bumi’s KPC coal mine
2014-08-21 | Jakarta | JATAM and Greenpeace
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Artificial intelligence? Computers financing man’s destruction - On DBs investment in HAGL through its passive fund ETF Vietnam

2014-08-01 | Global Witness
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

UN ‘concerned’ over barrier reef but defers in-danger notice

2014-06-18 | Financial Times
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and ING invest €1.34 billion in coal

FairFin, Climaxi and BankTrack ask for green investments
2014-06-03 | Brussels | FairFin
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama

2014-05-26 | Frankfurt am Main | Friends of the Earth Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank receives Black Planet Award at AGM

No sign of culture shift towards sustainability with Germany's largest bank
2014-05-22 | Frankfurt | urgewald, Facing Finance and FoE Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank says No to Financing of Coal Harbor on the Great Barrier Reef

2014-05-22 | Frankfurt | urgewald and Market Forces
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Is Deutsche Bank about to finance more reef destruction?

2014-05-12 | Melbourne | Market Forces
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Adani arm to raise  $1.5 bn in overseas debt in 2014

2014-05-08 | India | Live Mint
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European and US financial institutions continue to finance illegal palm oil

2014-03-28 | Amsterdam/Brussels/Berlin | Friends of the Earth Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama

2014 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Nine of the world's top 20 funders of coal won't touch additional coal terminals at Abbot Point

2014 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

From Main Street to Wall Street, US banks and brands support illegal forest destruction for palm oil

International investigation names brands and investors behind commodity's boom
2013-11-21 | Washington / Jakarta | Friends of the Earth US
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Reading as Protest - Urgewald action on Deutsche Bank finance for Coal India (VIDEO)

2013-11-18 | Frankfurt | RTL
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Five banks made £2.2 billion from food speculation in 2010-2012

2013-11-05 | London | World Development Movement
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Reality check for Aussie debt

2013-11-02 | IFR Asia
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Stranded assets, anyone? Testing times for the fossil fuel market

2013-10-17 | Renew Economy
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Adani Abbot Point Terminal Plans $1.2 Billion Debt Issue

2013-10-15 | The Wall Street Journal
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Goldman and Deutsche back India Coal despite their environmental standards

2013-10-01 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Coal India to Investors: What’s a Few Billion Tons of Coal Between Friends?

2013-09-24 | RAN blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Coal India to Investors: What’s a Few Billion Tons of Coal Between Friends?

2013-09-24 | RAN
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network call out Bank of America for major stake in Coal India deal

Human rights abuses and widespread deforestation overlooked while banking giant aids world’s largest coal mining company
2013-09-04 | San Francisco | Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Ignoring Human Rights Abuses and Coal’s Uncertain Future, Big Banks Line Up for Piece of World’s Largest Coal Miner

2013-09-04 | RAN
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

India picks seven banks for 5 percent stake sale in Coal India: sources

2013-08-29 | Reuters
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Big banks warned to steer clear of Coal India share offer

2013-08-23 | India | Ashish Fernandes
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

India and POSCO Must End Abuses Linked to Steel Project

Rights Groups Urge Suspension of Project, Prevention of Forced Evictions
2013-06-27 | New York | IHRC - ESCR-Net
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

NGOs criticise poor performance new leadership Deutsche Bank

2013-05-22 | Berlin | urgewald & Facing Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European banks and pension funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda

2013-05-21 | Brussels | Friends of the Earth Europe
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European banks fuel land-grabs in Uganda

2013-05-21 | Friends of the Earth Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

International Finance Corporation and Deutsche Bank bankrolling Vietnamese land grabs in Cambodia and Laos

2013-05-13 | London | Global Witness
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Seven of Bloomberg’s Top Ten “Greenest Banks” Are Climate Killers

2013-04-10 | RAN
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Coal India share issue collapses

2013 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Don’t bank on the bomb

2012-03-05 | Washington | ICAN
Blog
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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

Bankrolling Climate Change

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

RAN Translates Banker-Speak

2011-06-07 | RAN blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Allemagne : les anti-nucléaire se concentrent désormais sur le financement

2011-05-30 | Novethic
Blog
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Deutsche Bank cancels interest in Jaitapur nuclear project India

2011-03-22 | New Delhi, Berlin | urgewald, Greenpeace
Blog
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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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urgewald publishes new consumer brochure on nuclear banks

2010-12-22 | Germany | urgewald
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
Blog
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Bankruptcy threatens banks operating in Belgium

Netwerk Vlaanderen calls to halt investments in coal plants
2010-06-02 | Brussels/ Ghent | Netwerk Vlaanderen
Blog
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Deutsche Bank announces divestment from Elbit

2010-05-27 | Frankfurt | BDS Movement
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

Top financial institutions invest over US$43 billion in producers of cluster bombs

Activists call on governments and financial institutions to stop explosive investments
2010-04-14 | Geneva, Switzerland | Netwerk Vlaanderen/ IKV PaxChristi
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Deutsche Bank announces divestment from Elbit

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

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

Activists call on banks and pension funds to disinvest from banned weapon
2009-10-29 | London | Netwerk Vlaanderen
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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Nomination Deutsche Bank makes mockery of Sustainable Banking Awards

2009-06-04 | Berlin | Urgewald
Blog
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Deutsche Bank: WM Titel unerreichbar

Kritik an verantwortungslosen Finanzgeschäften der Deutschen Bank
2009-05-26 | Frankfurt | Urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Major banks facilitate corruption in world's poorest countries; government regulation is not working

2009-03-11 | London | Global Witness
Blog
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New Report: European banks financing damaging agrofuels in Latin America

Friends of the Earth International urges banks to stop fuelling harmful agrofuel boom
2008-05-19 | Brussels, Montevideo | Friends of the Earth Europe
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European banks withdraw from Belene nuclear power project

UniCredit Group, HVB and Deutsche Bank think Bulgarian project too risky
2006-10-20 | Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Sofia, Milan | Urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

German banks withdraw from Belene following Urgewald pressure

2006 | BankTrack
Resources
Documents
Videos
Links

Letter to banks financing CP2 LNG terminal: withdraw your finance

NGO document
2025-06-27 00:00:00 | For a Better Bayou, Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack and others.

Response to the Call for Input from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the forthcoming thematic report to the UN General Assembly:

"Concentration of corporate power in global food systems and its implications for the realization of the right to food"
Partner publication
2025-06-12 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth U.S., Foodrise, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to Deutsche Bank on Jadar project

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

Annual Report 2024

Annual report
2025-03-31 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Letter from BankTrack to Deutsche Bank 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 Deutsche Bank on JSW Utkal Steel

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

Highway zur Klimahölle

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

NZBA 2024 Progress Report

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

Environmental and Social Policy Framework

Bank policy
2024-09-25 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Open letter to EU & Japanese banks to end finance for LNG in the Gulf South, US

NGO document
2024-06-28 00:00:00 | BankTrack

ArcelorMittal and the Responsibility of Stakeholders in the Steel Value Chain

NGO document
2024-05-27 00:00:00 | Centre for Environmental Rights South Africa, Fair Steel Coalition, groundWork, Lead the Charge, SteelWatch, and Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance.

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

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

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

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

Non-Financial Report 2023

Annual report
2024-03-13 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Annual Report 2023

Annual report
2024-03-13 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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)

Sustainable Finance Framework

Bank policy
2024-02-07 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Coal Havens

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

Letter from BankTrack to Deutsche on Ending support for metallurgical coal

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

Letter from BankTrack, ACA, CTEA to Deutsche Bank 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

Initial Transition Plan

Status quo and the way forward
Other bank document
2023-10-19 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

Will San Miguel Power a World Made Better?

Partner publication
2023-06-12 00:00:00 | CEED

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

Letter from BankTrack to Deutsche Bank on financial ties to Nordgold's Lefa gold mine in Guinea

Correspondence
2023-05-04 00:00:00 | BankTrack

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

Boom and Bust Coal 2023

Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline
Partner publication
2023-04-06 00:00:00 | Global Energy Monitor

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-04-03 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Statement on human rights

Bank policy
2023-02-28 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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.

Letter from BankTrack and Mars se Drine to Deutsche Bank on Rio Tinto Jadar Lithium Mine

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

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

Bank policy
2022-06-08 00:00:00 | Deutsche Banks

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 | Deutsche Bank

Actions speak louder: Assessing bank responses to human rights violations

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

Letter from BankTrack to Deutsche Bank on lithium mining in Serbia’s Jadar Valley

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

Suppliers' Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2021-12-01 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

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

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-05-27 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank brings forward its target date for 200 billion euros of sustainable finance by two years to 2023

Other bank document
2021-05-20 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Commitment statement Net Zero Banking Alliance

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

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 | Deutsche Bank

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

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

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

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

BankWijzer XL 2020

Analysis of Belgian banking sector [report in Dutch]
NGO document
2021-01-13 00:00:00 | FairFin Belgium

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

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

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

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

Climate statement

Bank policy
2020-08-12 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Sustainable finance framework

Bank policy
2020-08-12 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank to end global business activities in coal mining by 2025

Bank policy
2020-07-27 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-05-19 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

Davos 2020: We need to talk about (sustainable) growth

Other bank document
2020-01-13 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

General statement on anti-money laundering requirements

Bank policy
2020-01-08 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

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

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2019-11-04 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Banken spielen mit dem Feuer

NGO document
2019-09-30 00:00:00 | Facing Finance

Fool's Gold

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

Troika Laundromat

Overview of financial institutions involved in the Troika Laundromat scheme
Other document
2019-05-20 00:00:00 | Organised Crime and Corruption Project (OCCRP)

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-04-16 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

CSR Report 2018

Annual report
2019-03-15 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to Deutsche Bank on Demands FBNT campaign

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

Group code of conduct

Bank policy
2018-08-31 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

CSR report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-19 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Annual report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-16 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Statement on ICAN report “Don’t bank on the bomb”

Other bank document
2018-03-07 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Banks: High Carbon, Hidden Risks

NGO document
2017-09-25 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network

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

Annual Report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-15 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Responsibility Report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-15 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

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

IndoAgri's new sustainable palm oil policy ails to address key environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks

NGO document
2017-02-28 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK & Profundo

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

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

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

Dirty Bankers

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

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

Annual Report 2015

Annual report
2016-06-09 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Responsibility Report 2015

Annual report
2016-06-09 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Measuring, evaluating and managing corporate responsibility

Other bank document
2016-06-09 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Governance Statement/Corporate Governance Report 2015

Annual report
2016-06-09 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Green Paper, Red Lines

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

Human Rights Impact Briefing #1:Labour standards violations in IOICorporation’s Malaysian plantations

BankTrack publication
2016-02-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Letter from Deutsche Bank to BankTrack on IOI Corporation Human Rights Impact Briefing

Correspondence
2015-12-11 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

EU Investors, Land Grabs and Deforestation: Case-Studies

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

Deutsche Bank Coal Bank Briefing 2015

BankTrack publication
2015-05-21 00:00:00 | BankTrack

The end of coal?

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

Letter from Testbiotech to Deutsche Bank on Invitation to a conference in Berlin on patents on life, genetic engineering and animal welfare

Correspondence
2015-04-27 00:00:00 | Testbiotech

Annual Report 2014

Annual report
2015-03-20 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Responsibility Report 2014

Annual report
2015-03-20 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Governance Statement/Corporate Governance Report 2014

Annual report
2015-02-20 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

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

PT KPC/Bumi Resources Deadly Coal

Ecological and Social Crisis caused by KPC/Bumi Resources’ Coal Production
NGO document
2014-08-21 00:00:00 | JATAM

Coal Finance Report Card 2014

Extreme Investments; Extreme Consequences
BankTrack publication
2014-04-17 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, BankTrack

Letter from BankTrack to signatory banks on Green Bond Principles

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

Annual Report 2013

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

Corporate Responsibility Report 2013

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank

INVESTOR BRIEFING:

Adani Abbot Point Terminal Debt Issue
NGO document
2013-10-20 00:00:00 | Greenpeace

Coal India: Running on Empty?

NGO document
2013-09-23 00:00:00 | Greenpeace India

Rubber Barons

How Vietnamese companies and international financiers are driving a land grabbing crisis in Cambodia and Laos
NGO document
2013-05-13 00:00:00 | Global Witness

Dirty Profits

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

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

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

Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions - June 2012 update

A shared responsibility
NGO document
2012-06-10 00:00:00 | FairFin and IKV Pax Christi

Recent financing of producers of cluster munitions by Deutsche Bank

A research paper prepared for Facing Finance
NGO document
2012-02-20 00:00:00 | Profundo, Facing Finance

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

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

The hunger-makers

How Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Other Financial Institutions Are Speculating With Food at the Expense of the Poorest
NGO document
2011-10-23 00:00:00 | FoodWatch

2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change

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

German banks involved in the export of tanks to Saudi Arabia

A research paper prepared for Facing Finance, 22nd July 2011
NGO document
2011-07-22 00:00:00 | Profundo, Facing Finance

Deutsche Bank Cluster Munitions Investments

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

Policy and Practice

2011 report card on banks and mountaintop removal
BankTrack publication
2011-04-05 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club

Bankers on Tenterhooks

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

Close the Gap

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

Deutsche Bank cluster munitions investments

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

Deutsche Bank 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.

Deutsche Bank will „grüne Büros“

Other document
2009-08-21 00:00:00 | Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung

Deutsche Bank: Ein fragwürdiges Markenzeichen

NGO document
2008-06-05 00:00:00 | Urgewald

German financial institutions and oil & gas in Africa and the former Soviet Union

Other document
2008-02-12 00:00:00 | Profundo, Die Grünen

Profiles of European Banks

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

Complaint to Global Compact about Deutsche Bank

NGO document
2007-06-18 00:00:00 | Global Witness

Deutsche Bank admits to Turkmen accounts

Other document
2007-05-10 00:00:00 | Hugh Williamson/Financial Times

The problem with warm words

Other document
2007-05-10 00:00:00 | Hugh Williamson- Financial times

Öl fuer Deutschland, Koste es was es wolle: Deutsche Banken in der russischen Ölförderung

NGO document
2006-07-04 00:00:00 | urgewald

Video links

http://www.swr.de/mediathek/-/did=6481194/pv=video/yegcxj/
Documentary about Deutsche Bank and its involvement in cluster munition producers (Textron e.g.). In German.
Accountability
Grievances
Response tracking

Deutsche Bank launched a grievance mechanism which is open to anyone, including to people potentially affected by its finance. Complaints can be lodged via email at report.misconduct@db.com or by a telephone hotline. 

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

Deutsche Bank 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 Deutsche Bank'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
Deforestation in the Amazon (July 2019)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank did not respond.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information 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.
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 did not respond.
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 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
"Don't Buy Into Occupation" report, November 2022
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.
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
Banks and Dirty Diesel: Vitol and Trafigura (May 2017)
1
0.5
0.5
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly responded but did not acknowledge its link to the impact due to client confidentiality. The response did comment on the issues raised, stating that it had "discussed the topic that you address with your briefing with the companies".
Action
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank stated that it has "discussed the topic that you address with your briefing with the companies...both companies assured us of their awareness of the seriousness of that issue raised". However, the bank did not detail whether it required the companies to take specific actions nor whether the bank itself took appropriate action.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
BankTrack Human Rights Briefing, May 2017
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 denying the allegation and citing client confidentiality. The allegation raised is based on research showing a financial link (in loans, underwriting and/or shareholdings) between the bank and specific companies with operations in the construction and hospitality sectors in Qatar. The bank denies financing those sectors in Qatar directly, but its response does not address its indirect financial links to the impacts raised (i.e. corporate finance to the companies mentioned).
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank engaged with its client(s) or took appropriate action.
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
East African Crude Oil Pipeline (March 2021)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank publicly responded stating that it "cannot comment on any existing or potential client relationships”.

Following media reporting: In May 2022, Reuters reported that the bank ruled out financing for the project; however, the bank did not put out a public statement so it does not receive a score.

Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank did not provide information on whether it engaged with its client or took appropriate action.

Following media reporting: 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 that it "cannot comment on potential, existing or former client relationships". While the bank explains it requires "clients to participate in certification schemes and expect them to publicly demonstrate their commitment to No Deforestation standards", it does not acknowledge a link to the company or impacts, but rejects the allegations.
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.
More info
"Global Witness calls on financiers to stop financing JBS", March 2023
IOI Corporation labour standards violations (February 2016)
0.5
0.5
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0.5
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank publicly responded acknowledging the link to the company, however it does not comment on or respond to the substance of the issues raised.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank confirmed that it engaged with the client regarding "certain sustainability topics", but this is not enough to determine that it has engaged regarding the specific impacts raised. As such this is not sufficient for a half score.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
BankTrack Human Rights Briefing, February 2016
Myanmar: Equity exposure to companies linked to the military regime (October 2021)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded publicly to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, but it fell short of acknowledging a link to the impacts and it did not respond to the substance of the issues raised.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available on whether the bank engaged with its client or investee companies or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information available about whether the bank monitored progress.
More info
Myanmar: Report alleges banks hold shares in companies affiliated with military junta & its conglomerates, July 28, 2021
Rio Tinto's Jadar mine, Serbia (December 2021)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank's response neither acknowledges its link to the impact, nor addresses the issues raised
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank does not describe any engagement with its client or approptriate action
Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information to indicate the bank is monitoring the actions of its clients, or actions it might itself have taken in response to the impacts raised.
More info
Letter to financiers of Rio Tinto, December 2021
JSW Utkal steel and coal, India (February 2025)
0
0
0
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank responded, stating that they "cannot comment on any existing or potential client relationships."
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information is available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
n/a
Rationale for score
The impact was not raised over a year ago and therefore is not scored on monitoring progress.
More info
International CSOs call on banks to rule out finance for controversial Indian steel and coal project, March 2025
Impacts of Indonesia’s state electricity company PLN (March 2025)
0
0
0
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank replied, stating: "we cannot comment on any existing or potential client relationships," and "State-owned enterprises in Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) countries will be allowed to have trajectories for the phaseout from thermal coal business that are aligned with the country’s commitments under the JETP program."
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
75%
0.13
0.08
0.04
0
Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2025 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that Deutsche Bank provided $49.5 bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2021 and 2024. In 2024 only, Deutsche Bank provided $14.3 bn, including $8.4 bn for oil, gas and coal companies expanding fossil fuels. Find further details on Deutsche Bank's fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on the Banking on Climate Chaos website below.

Banking on Climate Chaos finance data panel

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

Assessment of Deutsche Bank coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of Deutsche Bank's policy in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker

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
Deutsche Bank
2025-05-19
DEU
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 Deutsche Bank in its 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark, where it achieved 7 points out of 15 and was ranked as a “follower”. 

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, Deutsche Bank scored 0.15 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 Deutsche Bank 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
Deutsche Bank
DEU
7
Front runner 7
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
Deutsche Bank
DEU
7
Follower 7
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

Deutsche Bank’s policies for forest-risk sectors (beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber) have been assessed by the Forests & Finance coalition, achieving an overall score of 4.8 out of 10 and ranking it as a front runner. Deutsche Bank achieved a score of 2.4 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 5 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. In addition, BankTrack and the Environmental Paper Network have assessed Deutsche Bank’s policies related to the pulp and paper sector.

Between 2016 and 2022, Deutsche Bank provided USD 1,117 in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors and held investments amounting to USD 247 as of 2022. For more information, see the links below.

Forests & Finance

Banks and beef

Banks and palm oil

Banks and pulp & paper

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Deutsche Bank
2022-09-21
DEU
4.8
Front runner 4.8
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
Deutsche Bank
2022-09-21
DEU
2.4
Follower 2.4
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
Deutsche Bank
2022-09-21
DEU
5
Front runner 5
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

Deutsche Bank 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 Deutsche Bank to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Deutsche Bank has publicly condemned the war. Deutsche Bank is considered by Leave-Russia.org to be "withdrawn" from Russia. We categorise its exposure to Russia as moderate, with over $1.5 billion of financial assets. Deutsche Bank 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), Deutsche Bank is required to set interim targets for 2030 for high emission priority sectors. For Deutsche Bank, this includes its lending to the steel sector. You can see Deutsche Bank’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 Deutsche Bank provided US$ 4.1 billion in loans and underwriting to developers of new metallurgical coal between 2016 and 2022. Find further details on Deutsche Bank’s metallurgical coal financing and and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report.

Reclaim Finance 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 Deutsche Bank’s metallurgical coal policy below.

According to a report by Reclaim Finance, between 2016 and June 2023, Deutsche provided $4.1 billion in finance to the fossil-steel industry, making it the 36th largest financier worldwide. Find further details on Deutsche's 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:

2022

Win! Deutsche Bank abandons Whitehaven Coal’s bond issue

A media report in Germany confirmed publicly this week that Deutsche Bank has withdrawn from its involvement in a bond issue for climate-wrecking Whitehaven Coal, following a concerted people-powered campaign coordinated by Market Forces.  Business media outlet Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday that: “According…

Seven financiers abandon TotalEnergies' EACOP pipeline in a week

The coalition to #StopEACOP celebrates this week’s news that five banks including Deutsche Bank, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley have confirmed they will not join the project loan to finance the EACOP. They are joined by the insurer Beazley Group and the Italian export credit agency SACE. This…

Civil society groups respond to reports that Deutsche Bank will not finance East African Crude Oil Pipeline

An anonymous source within Deutsche Bank has privately briefed journalists that the bank will not be providing dedicated finance to the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). To date, 15 commercial banks have made commitments to avoid financing the project, so this signal makes it clearer than ever the scale…

2017

Five European banks pressured not to tolerate corrupt practices at Dominican coal plant project

Mired in a major international corruption scandal, the proposed Punta Catalina coal plant in the Dominican Republic became untouchable for Deutsche Bank, ING, Santander, Société Générale and Unicredit in 2017. As the gravity of the situation surrounding the project’s construction…

Deutsche Bank takes first significant step out of coal sector financing

Deutsche Bank is not moving out of coal as quickly or as comprehensively as we would like, but the January 2017 commitment from Germany’s biggest bank to reduce its exposure to thermal coal and to no longer grant project financing for greenfield thermal coal mines and new coal-fired power stations confirmed that…

2016

Deutsche Bank blacklists mountaintop removal companies

At Deutsche Bank's shareholder meeting in May, the bank finally announced an end to its support for mountaintop removal mining (MTR). The bank had been the largest banker behind the controversial practice. Two months previously the bank announced an incremental phase-out of its MTR finance, without any timescales,…

2014

Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama

Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it sold its shares in the Indonesian palm oil supplier Bumitama, an important supplier to palm oil giant Wilmar, following months of campaigning by the two groups. Despite numerous promises to clean up its act, Bumitama continues to produce…

Nine of the world's top 20 funders of coal won't touch additional coal terminals at Abbot Point

In 2014, JP Morgan, Cit, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland all responded to a worldwide pressure campaign of NGOs, including Banktrack, urgewald, Greenpeace and Market Forces, by announcing that they would not help finance the expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal in Australia. While ANZ and others remain tied to…

2013

Coal India share issue collapses

Coal India Limited's attempt at a public share issue was successfully blocked in late 2013. The Indian government, the company's majority shareholder, hoped toraise USD 3 billion through the sale of 10% of its stake in the world's largest coal miner. Banktrack was part of a coalition of groups including Greenpeace, Rainforest…

2010

Deutsche Bank announces divestment from Elbit

In 2010, Germany's biggest bank Deutsche Bank announced that it had divested its 2% stake in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms company that supplies the Israeli military and provides components for the Separation Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The announcement followed a concerted campaign from German human…

2006

German banks withdraw from Belene following Urgewald pressure

In the fall of 2006, Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank and Commerzbank withdrew from the Belene nuclear power project, sited in an earthquake area in Northern Bulgaria. Through media work, postcards and e-mails, visits at the banks' AGMs, an international protest day and a protest week in 60 German cities, the banks were…