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About
Website http://www.wellsfargo.com/
Headquarters
420 Montgomery Street
CA 94104 San Francisco
United States
CEO/chair Charles W. Scharf
CEO and President
Supervisor
Federal Reserve
Ownership
listed on NYSE

Wells Fargo's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Wells Fargo is a US financial services company which was founded in 1852. The Bank is headquartered in San Francisco. Wells Fargo serves more than 70 million customers and has offices in 32 countries. The financial institution provides banking, investment, mortgage products and services, and consumer and commercial finance.

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

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Corporate responsibility

2022-09-06 00:00:00

Human rights statement

Bank policy
2022-09-06 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-08-29 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement

Bank policy
2022-08-29 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-08-18 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Impact Management Framework

Bank policy
2022-08-18 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-05-04 00:00:00

2030 targets for oil & gas and power sectors

Bank policy
2022-05-04 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2021-04-30 00:00:00

Code of Ethics and Business Conduct

Bank policy
2021-04-30 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2020-07-15 00:00:00

Indigenous Peoples Statement

Bank policy
2020-07-15 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2016-07-27 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2016-07-27 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Business for Social ResponsibilityTags: corporate social responsibility
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon PrinciplesTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
Dodgy Deals

Wells Fargo 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 Wells Fargo's link to these deals.

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Banks and Climate

The 2022 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that Wells Fargo provided US$ 271.82 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2021. Find further details on Wells Fargo fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on Fossil Banks No Thanks and in the Banking on Climate Chaos report.

 


Banks and Human Rights

BankTrack assessed Wells Fargo in its 2022 Global Human Rights Benchmark, where it achieved 5.5 points out of 14 and was ranked as a follower. In addition, Wells Fargo scored 0 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.

Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

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Ranking
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Wells Fargo
USA
5.5
Follower
0
United States
Score
Follower
5.5
Explanation

Wells Fargo's human rights policies, processes and reporting were assessed as part of the BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022. The bank is assessed as a Follower, with a total score of 5.5 out of 14.

Policy: 3/3
Due dilligence: 1.5/5
Reporting: 1/3
Remedy: 0/3


Response Tracking:
The bank was also assessed on its responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations, for which it received an average score of 0/3. See the Response Tracking section of this profile for more details.

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

Tracking the Net Zero Banking Alliance

Wells Fargo 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.

 

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Leaders or laggards? Report analyzes net-zero pledges of US banks

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Climate groups call on Shell’s bankers to stop Jackdaw gas field

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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
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World’s largest broker takes on role of finding insurance despite protest from staff
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Gulf Coast communities fighting the massive buildout of fracked gas exports

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Largest U.S. banks to face shareholder votes on climate change

2022-03-29 | American Banker
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Wells Fargo's Human Rights Impact Assessment Leaves Shareholders Dissatisfied

A failure to publish the complete findings of the assessment has investors wondering about the integrity of the process and whether any learnings gleaned will inform much-needed reforms.
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Wells Fargo joins Net-Zero Banking Alliance with no plan for phasing out fossil fuel finance

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(In Burmese) Nine international banks are involved in 18 companies affiliated with the military council
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Major blow to Keystone XL pipeline as judge revokes key permit

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2020-04-16 | The Guardian
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Stop the Money Pipeline: Private banks owning oil companies is a recipe for disaster

2020-04-10 | New York | Stop the Money Pipeline
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Reckless Keystone XL decision by TC Energy endorsed by JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Canadian peers

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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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2020-03-18 | The Hill
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Following Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase announcements, Wells Fargo rejects funding for Arctic drilling

2020-03-02 | San Francisco | Sierra Club
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2019-11-26 | BankTrack
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2019-10-13 | The Guardian
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Money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns

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2019-09-17 | The New Yorker
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Rio Grande Valley: Big banks urged not to back high risk fracked-gas export terminals

2019-08-14 | BankTrack
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Banks step away from US private prisons

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

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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US banks pledged to fund renewable energy, but they still spend way more on fossil fuels

2019-03-28 | Mother Jones
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Banks' fossil fuel funding rises, environmental groups warn

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2019-03-21 | S&P Global
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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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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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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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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Crédit Agricole warned not to finance tar sands pipeline companies

Bank clients Enbridge and TransCanada have failed to secure Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous communities
2018-10-09 | San Francisco, USA | Rainforest Action Network
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New coal report finds troubling loopholes in existing bank policies

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2018-08-16 | Rainforest Action Network
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As Banks and Investors Reject Arctic Drilling, Where is Wells Fargo?

2018-08-10 | Ben Cushing, Sierra Club
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USA: Govt. contractors accused of profiting from separation & detention of migrant & asylum seeking families

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

2018-06-25 | Reuters
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Big Banks Face Fossil Fuel Resistance at Annual Meetings

Guest blog by Ben Cushing, Campaign Representative Beyond Dirty Fuels
2018-06-07 | Ben Cushing, Sierra Club
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Iowans Hold Wells Fargo Accountable for Funding Dirty Fuels and Pipelines

2018-04-26 | United States | Ben Cushing, Sierra Club
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Wells Fargo could face $1 billion penalty for auto and mortgage abuses

2018-04-13 | New York | CNN Money
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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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JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo Double Down on Support for Dirty Tar Sands Pipelines

2017-12-18 | San Francisco | Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
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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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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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Greenpeace Investor Briefing: Problematic Pipelines

Investor risk from bank financing of tar sands pipelines
2017-09-20 | Greenpeace
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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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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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The Money Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Is Your Bank Financing Another Fracked-Gas Disaster?

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

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

2017-04-06 | Alison Kirsch - Rainforest Action Network
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Who's bankrolling TransCanada?

Banking on TransCanada means banking on Keystone XL
2017-03-24 | Alison Kirsch - Rainforest Action Network
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Post-truth reputational risk: the Wells Fargo saga

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2017-03-16 | Global Trade Review
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Wells Fargo's Dakota Access Financing Prompts a Shareholder Vote

2017-03-15 | Bloomberg
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Financing of coal industry expansion by top banks undermining Paris Agreement

2016-11-14 | Marrakech, Morocco | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth France, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network, urgewald
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Pipeline protest comes south

2016-10-21 | The Rapid City Journal
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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Drummond and paramilitary violence in Colombia

2016-05-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo cut coal financing, join growing movement by banks in U.S. and Europe

Rainforest Action Network calls on banks to end all financing for coal
2015-12-01 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley Join Banks Edging Away From Coal

2015-11-30 | Bloomberg
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
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Report Finds Top Banks Moving Away From Coal: Citigroup and Barclays seen as laggards

Fifth annual coal finance report shows JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo end financing for mountaintop removal coal
2014-04-17 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Extreme Coal – No Longer Business as Usual

2014-04-17 | RAN
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Barclays and Citigroup Funded Worst of U.S. Coal Industry

BankTrack quoted
2014-04-17 | Bloomberg
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks Move to Measure Their True Climate Impacts

2013-10-29 | RAN
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New Coal Finance Report Card Exposes Risk of Extreme Energy Investments

Banks pump $20 billion into coal despite U.S. coal industry decline and escalating climate impacts
2013-04-29 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Extreme Investments: 2013 Coal Finance Report Card

2013-04-29 | RAN
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

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

Banks Look to Burnish Their Images by Backing Green Technology Firms

2012-06-10 | The New York Times
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Environmental groups rate banks based on support of coal

2012-05-01 | United States of America | The State journal
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

US banks risk public health and climate by financing coal

RAN and sierra club detail the “filthy five” banks in third annual “coal Finance report rard”
2012-05-01 | San Francisco, USA | Rainforest Action Network
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

Banktrack says BofA and Wells Fargo are killing the climate

2011-11-30 | Durban | clclt.com
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning

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

Time to Improve the Equator Principles, BankTrack Says

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

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

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

Financiers search for sustainable future

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

New report card exposes largest financers of mountaintop removal coal mining

2011-04-05 | San Fransisco | Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator plans one of world’s most expensive yachts

2011-02-28 | London | Global Witness
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report finds bank Carbon Principles did not curb financing of coal

Rainforest Action Network report finds implementation of the Carbon Principles lacking
2011-01-21 | San Fransisco | Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Wall Street turns its back on Mountaintop Removal coal mining

2011 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks grow wary of environmental risks

2010-08-31 | NY Times
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks toughen lending rules to coal, PNC & UBS still bucking the trend

Two banks take heat for continuing to fund Massey Energy and mountaintop removal mining
2010-08-27 | United States
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

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

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

New report card, largest financers of Mountaintop Removal coal mining

PNC, JPMorgan Chase and UBS receive failing grades
2010-05-13 | San Francisco | Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Equator Principles: Action, not words needed

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

Protests against years of destructive investments at Wells Fargo AGM

2006-04-25 | San Francisco, USA | Rainforest Action Network
Resources
Documents
Links
2023-01-27 00:00:00

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

BankTrack publication
2023-01-27 00:00:00 | Profundo for Sierra Club, Fair Finance International, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
2022-11-17 00:00:00

BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

BankTrack publication
2022-11-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2022-11-09 00:00:00

Wall Street's Dirtiest Secret

How fossil fuel expansion depends on big bank finance
NGO document
2022-11-09 00:00:00
2022-10-01 00:00:00

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

NGO document
2022-10-01 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Les Amis de la Terre, Save RGV, Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas
2022-09-21 00:00:00

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report

Annual report
2022-09-21 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-09-06 00:00:00

Human rights statement

Bank policy
2022-09-06 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-08-29 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement

Bank policy
2022-08-29 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-08-18 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Impact Management Framework

Bank policy
2022-08-18 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-07-29 00:00:00

Vaca Muerta Basin: An Oil & Gas Trap

IMF and global capital markets neglect the risk of ballooning Argentina’s debt and liability problem
NGO document
2022-07-29 00:00:00 | Profundo, 350.org Argentina
2022-06-07 00:00:00

CSR report 2021

Annual report
2022-06-07 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-06-03 00:00:00

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

Correspondence
2022-06-03 00:00:00 | BankTrack, 350.org, Bank on our Future and Uplift
2022-05-04 00:00:00

2030 targets for oil & gas and power sectors

Bank policy
2022-05-04 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-03-30 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2022

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

Investor Statement on Line 3, Oil Sands Projects, and FPIC

Other document
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Investors & Indigenous Peoples Working Group
2022-03-29 00:00:00

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-03-29 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2022-02-28 00:00:00

Priority Recommendations of the Wells Fargo Human Rights Impact Assessment and Actions in Response

Bank document
2022-02-28 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2021-12-14 00:00:00

Wall Street's carbon bubble: the global emissions of the US financial sector

NGO document
2021-12-14 00:00:00 | Sierra Club, Center for American Progress
2021-12-14 00:00:00

Actions speak louder: Assessing bank responses to human rights violations

BankTrack publication
2021-12-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2021-07-06 00:00:00

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-07-06 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2021-05-06 00:00:00

Critical climate votes 2021

There will be a number of important resolutions filed by shareholders at key companies in the banking, energy, and utilities sectors this proxy season.
NGO document
2021-05-06 00:00:00 | Critical Climate Votes
2021-04-30 00:00:00

Code of Ethics and Business Conduct

Bank policy
2021-04-30 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2021-03-16 00:00:00

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-03-16 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2021-03-08 00:00:00

Wells Fargo Sets Goal to Achieve Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050

Company to deploy $500 billion in sustainable financing by 2030, will work with clients to support low-carbon transition
Company document
2021-03-08 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2020-11-24 00:00:00

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

BankTrack publication
2020-11-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2020-10-28 00:00:00

Bankrolling Extinction: The top 10 banks financing biodiversity loss

NGO document
2020-10-28 00:00:00 | porfolio.earth
2020-09-24 00:00:00

Fracking Fiasco: The banks that fueled the U.S. shale bust

NGO document
2020-09-24 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
2020-08-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-08-31 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2020-07-15 00:00:00

Indigenous Peoples Statement

Bank policy
2020-07-15 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2020-05-19 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-05-19 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2020-03-18 00:00:00

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
2019-12-10 00:00:00

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

Correspondence
2019-12-10 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2019-08-16 00:00:00

CSR Report 2018

Annual report
2019-08-16 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2019-05-21 00:00:00

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions bankrolling Europe’s most coal-dependent utilities
NGO document
2019-05-21 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal
2019-04-30 00:00:00

The Wall Street Banks Still Financing Private Prisons

2019 Data Brief
NGO document
2019-04-30 00:00:00 | ITPI, Public Accountability Initiative, Center for Popular Deocracy
2019-04-25 00:00:00

Annual General Meeting Shareholder Briefing Wells Fargo

BankTrack publication
2019-04-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2019-03-01 00:00:00

The Wheels are Still Off at Wells Fargo

For thousands of front-line employees, Wells Fargo has not fixed its culture of fear and intimidation
NGO document
2019-03-01 00:00:00 | Committee for Better Banks
2019-02-15 00:00:00

Annual Report 2018

Annual report
2019-02-15 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2018-12-31 00:00:00

Business Standards Report

Bank document
2018-12-31 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2018-10-16 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to Wells Fargo on Demands FBNT campaign

Correspondence
2018-10-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack and 120 organisations
2018-08-31 00:00:00

Banking on coal mining

U.S. banks’ performance against their policies since 2015
NGO document
2018-08-31 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
2018-05-31 00:00:00

Shaping Our CSR Priorities

Bank document
2018-05-31 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2018-03-31 00:00:00

Annual Report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2018-03-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2018-02-28 00:00:00

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

NGO document
2018-02-28 00:00:00 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2018-01-23 00:00:00

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

Correspondence
2018-01-23 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2017-06-06 00:00:00

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

Correspondence
2017-06-06 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network et al
2017-05-16 00:00:00

Annual Report 2016

Annual report
2017-05-16 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2017-03-26 00:00:00

Corporate responsibility interim report 2016

Bank document
2017-03-26 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2017-03-23 00:00:00

Letter from SumOfUs, As You Sow to Wells Fargo on Shareholder resolution to adopt a policy regarding the rights of indigenous people

Download from: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000138713117001629/sumofus-px14a6n_032317.htm
Correspondence
2017-03-23 00:00:00 | SumOfUs, As You Sow
2016-11-30 00:00:00

Letter from 500 organisations to Wells Fargo on financing DAPL

Correspondence
2016-11-30 00:00:00 | 500 organisations
2016-07-27 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Conduct

Bank policy
2016-07-27 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2016-06-14 00:00:00

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
2016-06-02 00:00:00

Green Paper, Red Lines

Requirements for pulp and paper industry finance
BankTrack publication
2016-06-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network
2016-05-25 00:00:00

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

BankTrack publication
2016-05-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2015-10-05 00:00:00

Financing Climate Chaos

How Minnesota’s Banking Giants Prioritize Profit in the Face of Climate Change
NGO document
2015-10-05 00:00:00 | MN 350
2015-05-04 00:00:00

The end of coal?

2015 Coal Finance Report Card
BankTrack publication
2015-05-04 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
2014-12-10 00:00:00

Letter from EPN to Banks investing in April on APRIL

Correspondence
2014-12-10 00:00:00 | EPN
2014-10-29 00:00:00

Banking on Coal 2014

BankTrack publication
2014-10-29 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2014-04-17 00:00:00

Coal Finance Report Card 2014

Extreme Investments; Extreme Consequences
BankTrack publication
2014-04-17 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, BankTrack
2013-04-29 00:00:00

Coal Finance Report Card 2013

Extreme investments - US Banks and the Coal Industry
BankTrack publication
2013-04-29 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, BankTrack
2012-06-20 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

NGO document
2012-06-20 00:00:00 | IKV Pax Christi & FairFin
2012-05-01 00:00:00

Coal Finance Report Card 2012

Dirty Money, U.S. Banks at theBottom of the Class
BankTrack publication
2012-05-01 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, BankTrack
2011-04-05 00:00:00

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
2011-01-21 00:00:00

The Principle Matter - Banks, Climate and the Carbon Principles

NGO document
2011-01-21 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
2010-12-18 00:00:00

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

Correspondence
2010-12-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack
2010-05-13 00:00:00

Policy and Practice: report card on banks and mountaintop removal

BankTrack publication
2010-05-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, BankTrack
2010-04-30 00:00:00

Letter from Wells Fargo to RAN, Sierra Club, BankTrack on Mountaintop Removal

Correspondence
2010-04-30 00:00:00 | Wells Fargo
2010-04-14 00:00:00

Mountaintop Removal request for information letter sent to Wells Fargo

Correspondence
2010-04-14 00:00:00 | RAN, Sierra Club, BankTrack
2009-10-01 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS, a shared responsibility

NGO document
2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, et. al.
2009-03-01 00:00:00

Meek Principles for a Tough Climate

Why the Climate and Carbon Principles will not stop the melting of the ice
BankTrack publication
2009-03-01 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Wells Fargo CSR page

EPN assessment of policies against 14 minimum criteria - Wells Fargo

Environmental Paper Network (EPN) evaluated the policies of 68 major financiers of the pulp and paper industry against 14 absolute minimum criteria that all financial institutions should require their clients, investments and business partners to respect in order to reduce social and environmental risks.

Accountability
Grievances
Response tracking

Wells Fargo does not operate a complaints channel for individuals and communities that may be adversely affected by its finance.

Customers, however, can make a complaint via the bank's customer services. Stakeholders may raise complaints via the OECD National Contact Points (see OECD Watch guidance).

This page evaluates Wells Fargo'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
Drummond and paramilitary violence in Colombia (May 2016)
0
0
0
0
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank publicly responded stating that "as a general rule, Wells Fargo does not disclose details regarding specific relationships".

Following the bank's response: The score remains unchanged.

Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

The bank provided no detail on whether it engaged with its client or took approriate action.

Following the bank's response: The score remains unchanged.

Monitoring
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score

No information available on whether the bank monitored progress.

Following the bank's response: The score remains unchanged.

More info
BankTrack Human Rights Briefing, May 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