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By: BankTrack
2022-11-25 13:14:37

Contact:

Hannah Greep, Campaign Lead Banks and Nature


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A global emergency…

Our planet is rapidly heading towards ecological breakdown. The United Nations estimates that the extinction rate of plant and animal species is now between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. Untouched wilderness areas are fast disappearing, with human activity  having already significantly altered three-quarters of all land and impacted two-thirds of the seas and oceans. Industrial farming and fishing, resource extraction and waste disposal, rapid urbanisation, industrial production and power generation, transport infrastructure, and ever expanding tourism all severely impact on the condition of temperate and tropical forests, peatlands, wetlands, coral reefs, rivers, oceans and other ecosystems on which we, and all other species, depend upon. Sadly, their condition is deteriorating more rapidly than ever and is further aggravated by steadily rising global average temperatures due to accelerating climate change.

…linked to other emergencies

The crisis of nature cannot be separated from other global emergencies. Climate-related disasters such as forest fires, droughts and floods destroy and disrupt ecosystems globally. At the same time, effectively tackling the climate crisis requires protecting and restoring ecosystems, not just because forests, peatlands and oceans store vast amounts of carbon, but also because healthy ecosystems act as buffers against extreme weather, protecting houses, crops, water supplies and vital infrastructure. Preserving intact wilderness areas from human interference and encroachment is also crucial to reduce the risk of new pandemics emerging.

Effectively protecting and restoring nature requires strengthening human rights, in particular those of the Indigenous peoples and local communities that are on the front line. Indigenous peoples embody and nurture 80% of the world’s cultural and biological diversity, whilst only occupying 20% of the world’s land surface and comprising less than 5% of the world’s population. As traditional custodians of the land, their role must be central in any attempt to preserve nature, yet their rights are continually violated by the colonial, extractive and industrial activities of the fossil fuel, agro commodities- and other high impact sectors operating on their territories, often without their consent. Every day, land and environmental defenders are facing a host of human rights violations in efforts to silence their calls to protect their way of life - on average four are killed each week. If protection and restoration of nature is our best chance at keeping our planet habitable, then we must learn from the expertise of those who best protect these most valuable ecosystems.

Role of banks

Through their lending decisions and client selection, banks are in a key position to help preserve nature. Despite the acute crises we find ourselves in, many banks continue to finance habitat destruction and biodiversity loss, and turn a blind eye to associated human and Indigenous rights violations. Banks continue to funnel finance into high impact sectors, including agro commodities such as beef, soy, palm oil, and pulp & paper; metal and mineral mining; fossil fuels; and large scale infrastructure. They also provide finance to the forest biomass industry, which is often falsely represented as a form of renewable energy.

Banks can help protect and restore nature if they stop financing harmful activities in high-risk sectors and develop robust policies and practices that guide them towards financing sectors and clients that protect and strengthen nature.

What banks must do

The overall aim of the Banks and Nature campaign is for banks to protect nature and end bank finance for nature destruction. To achieve this, banks must:

  1. Explicitly acknowledge the urgency and severity of the biodiversity crisis and acknowledge their responsibility to ensure that the activities they finance do not lead to further ecosystem destruction and extinction;
  2. Actively support and formally commit to align their business with the goals and targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity;
  3. Adopt methodologies to measure and report the impact of investments and financing activities on biodiversity, setting concrete and time-bound targets to reduce this impact;
  4. Strengthen sector finance policies for high impact industries to ensure they adequately safeguard biodiversity, including proper due diligence impact assessments for each sector, and respect the rights of Indigenous peoples, local communities, and human and environmental defenders;
  5. Exclude finance for specific very high impact business activities and adopt No-Go policies which prohibit any direct or indirect financing related to unsustainable, extractive, industrial, environmentally, and/or socially harmful activities in or which may potentially impact high level biodiverse areas;
  6. Not provide finance to carbon and biodiversity offset projects based on the concept of “no net loss”.

What BankTrack does

BankTrack’s Banks and Nature campaign challenges commercial banks to act urgently and decisively to protect nature by ending finance for nature destruction. We do this through:

Analysing bank policies in high-impact sectors such as beef, pulp and paper, and biomass, and pushing for banks to improve their policies and exclude finance for certain high-impact activities. The Forest & Finance coalition, of which BankTrack is a member, conducts policy assessments of 50 financial institutions that have significant financial exposure to forest-risk sectors in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa and parts of South America. We use this analysis to benchmark the commercial banks against each other and to engage with banks on improving their policies.

Campaigning on Dodgy Deals, projects and companies with an adverse environmental, social and other impacts. We target bank financiers of these companies in order to push banks to exclude these companies from their financing portfolios or use their leverage to improve client performance. We work together with our partners in different coalitions to conduct our dodgy deal campaigns. Some examples include the Brazilian meat-packing company JBS and the energy company Drax that is involved in the burning of wood for energy.

Engaging with banks and banking initiatives to raise the standards banks are setting, either in their own policies or as part of nature-related initiatives within the financial sector. For example, together with partners such as Global Witness and Rainforest Action Network we have been engaged with the consultation process of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)in 2022. In addition, we will utilise the various banking initiatives that we track as part of our work (e.g. the Equator Principles, the Principles for Responsible Banking) to seek further commitments on nature and biodiversity protection.

Supporting fellow civil society organisations from around the world who aim to challenge banks to stop financing nature destruction. Some of our partners include: the Forest & Finance coalition; the Banks & Biodiversity coalition; the Environmental Paper Network and the Drop JBS coalition. For more information on our different campaign topics, see the further sections below.


Top Publications

Burning forests in the name of clean energy? How banks are failing to exclude the harmful wood biomass industry from finance
2022-10-21 00:00:00 | BankTrack
Asia Pulp and Paper: Risk briefing for banks and investors
2021-12-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Forest & Finance Coalition, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Soft Commitments, Hard Lessons: an analysis of the Soft Commodities Compact
2020-11-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Target Dodgy Deals

target

JBS

Brazil | Company
target

Enviva

United States | Company
target

Arauco

Chile | Company
target

Project: East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Uganda

Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil

Further sections

Banks and beef

2022-12-06 12:05:46

Banks and biodiversity

2022-09-01 11:53:43

Biodiversity and nature finance initiatives

2022-09-27 10:35:10

Banks and biomass

2022-12-06 12:08:56

Banks and palm oil

2022-10-19 11:16:01

Banks and pulp & paper

2022-09-01 11:54:45

Forests & Finance

2022-10-18 10:35:20

Related banks

ABN AMRO Netherlands

active

Agricultural Bank of China China

active

ANZ Australia

active

Banco Bradesco Brazil

active

Banco Santander Spain

active

BancoEstado Chile

active

Bank Mandiri Indonesia

active

Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) Indonesia

active

Bank of America United States

active

Bank of China China

active

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) Indonesia

active

Barclays United Kingdom

active

BNP Paribas France

active

BTG Pactual Brazil

active

Caixa Econômica Federal Brazil

active

Cathay United Bank Taiwan, Republic of China

active

China CITIC Bank China

active

China Construction Bank China

active

China Development Bank China

active

China Merchants Bank China

active

CIMB Group Malaysia

active

Citi United States

active

Commerzbank Germany

active

Commonwealth Bank Australia

active

Credicorp Bermuda

active

Credit Suisse Switzerland

active

DBS Singapore

active

Deutsche Bank Germany

active

Goldman Sachs United States

active

HSBC United Kingdom

active

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) China

active

Itaú-Unibanco Brazil

active

JPMorgan Chase United States

active

Macquarie Australia

active

Maybank Malaysia

active

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) Japan

active

Morgan Stanley United States

active

NatWest Group United Kingdom

active

OCBC Bank Singapore

active

Ping An Bank China

active

Scotiabank Canada

active

Standard Chartered United Kingdom

active

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Japan

active

United Overseas Bank (UOB) Singapore

active

Wells Fargo United States

active

BNDES Brazil

on record

Wing Lung Bank Hong Kong

on record

Related Dodgy Deals

Projects

active

E40 Inland Waterway - international -

Construction
target

East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Uganda

Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
active

Ferrogrão EF-170 Railway Brazil

Commodities Trading | Train and Railroad Manufacturing
active

Jadar lithium mine Serbia

Mining
active

Malicounda oil-fired power plant Senegal

Oil-fired power plant
active

PT Plasma Nutfah Marind Papua (PT PNMP) plantation Indonesia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

RWE biomass conversion project Netherlands

Biomass Electric Power Generation
active

Tapajós Hydroelectric Complex and Tapajós Waterway Brazil

Hydroelectric Power Generation
There are no projects active for Banks and Nature now.
on record

Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill Russian Federation

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

APP Andhra Pradesh pulp mill India

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Botnia pulp and paper mill Uruguay

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Euca Energy Brazil

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Maizuru Palm Oil Power Plant Japan

Agriculture for Biofuels | Agriculture for Palm Oil | Biomass Electric Power Generation
on record

MAPA project Chile

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

MGT Teesside biomass power station United Kingdom

Biomass Electric Power Generation
on record

OKI Pulp & Paper Mills Indonesia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Paso de los Toros pulp mill Uruguay

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Pego Power Station Portugal

Biomass Electric Power Generation
on record

Portucel pulp mill Mozambique

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Tamar Valley Pulp Mill Tasmania (formerly Gunns Pulp Mill) Australia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills

Companies

active

APRIL Indonesia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
target

Arauco Chile

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Indonesia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

Bunge United States

Agriculture for Food Crops | Agriculture for Palm Oil
active

Compañía Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones (CPMC) Chile

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

Drax Group United Kingdom

Biomass Electric Power Generation
target

Enviva United States

Biomass Electric Power Generation
active

EPH Czech Republic

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Coal Mining | Electric Power Distribution | Hydroelectric Power Generation | Nuclear Electric Power Generation | Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas | Solar Electric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
active

Graanul Invest Estonia

Biomass Electric Power Generation
target

JBS Brazil

Beef Industry | Commodities Trading
active

Marfrig Brazil

Beef Industry | Commodities Trading
active

Minerva Foods Brazil

Agriculture for Biofuels | Agriculture for Food Crops | Beef Industry
active

OLAM Singapore

Commodities Trading
active

RWE Germany

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Coal Mining | Commodities Trading | Nuclear Electric Power Generation | Solar Electric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
active

Sinar Mas Indonesia

Agriculture for Palm Oil | Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

Suzano Brazil

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

UPM-Kymmene Finland

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
active

Vattenfall Sweden

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Coal Mining | Hydroelectric Power Generation | Mining | Nuclear Electric Power Generation | Solar Electric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
There are no companies active for Banks and Nature now.
on record

Cargill United States

Agriculture for Food Crops | Agriculture for Palm Oil
on record

EDF France

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Hydroelectric Power Generation | Nuclear Electric Power Generation | Solar Electric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
on record

Eldorado Brasil Brazil

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Eletrobras Brazil

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Electric Power Distribution | Hydroelectric Power Generation | Nuclear Electric Power Generation | Solar Electric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
on record

Energa Group Poland

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Electric Power Distribution | Hydroelectric Power Generation | Wind Electric Power Generation
on record

IOI Corporation Malaysia

Agriculture for Palm Oil
on record

Klabin Brazil

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Louis Dreyfus Company Netherlands

Agriculture for Biofuels | Agriculture for Food Crops | Agriculture for Industrial Crops | Chemical Manufacturing | Commodities Trading
on record

Marubeni Japan

Coal Electric Power Generation | Mining | Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Navigator Company Portugal

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) Poland

Biomass Electric Power Generation | Coal Electric Power Generation | Coal Mining | Nuclear Electric Power Generation
on record

PT Toba Pulp Lestari Indonesia

Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) Singapore

Agriculture for Palm Oil | Oil and Gas Extraction | Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
on record

Sime Darby Malaysia

Agriculture for Palm Oil
on record

Vale Brazil

Coal Mining | Mining
on record

Wilmar International Singapore

Agriculture for Palm Oil

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our news

Banking centers of Brazil, Indonesia, China, the United States and Japan are bankrolling global deforestation, new analysis finds

More than USD 238 billion in credit has been provided to companies driving tropical deforestation globally since the Paris Climate Agreement
2021-10-29 | Forests & Finance
blog
external news
our news

Fool’s Paradise: How Biodiversity Offsets Don’t Stop Biodiversity Loss

2021-10-28 | Friends of the Earth US
blog
external news
our news

Fool’s Paradise: How Biodiversity Offsets Don’t Stop Biodiversity Loss

2021-10-26 | Friends of the Earth US
blog
external news
our news

To fight the climate crisis, banks must stop financing factory farming

2021-10-19 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

Banks and biodiversity: are banks moving towards Kunming?

As China hosts the first part of the UN Biodiversity Conference, banks are called upon to support its goals
2021-10-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Household brands and global financiers including BlackRock linked to clearance of tropical rainforest, human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea

Undercover investigation reveals tainted palm oil has been sold on to household brands including Kellogg’s, Nestlé, and The Hershey Company.
2021-10-07 | Global Witness
blog
external news
our news

Environmental justice and human rights organizations address global leaders ahead of COP26: Carbon offsets don't stop climate change

Over 170 organizations including Amazon Watch, Food & Water Watch, Indigenous Environmental Network, Sunrise Movement, Gulf Coast Center for Law and Poverty, Friends of the Earth, and more around the world, sign statement opposing carbon offsets
2021-10-06 | Oakland, California | Amazon Watch
blog
external news
our news

JPMorgan Chase strengthens palm oil policy, but fails to move on fossil fuels, rights, or deforestation more broadly

Urgent action needed on climate and human rights, but fossil fuel’s biggest banker largely maintains business as usual
2021-10-04 | Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Asian Development Bank: Don’t finance dirty biomass!

2021-09-17 | Global Forest Coalition
blog
external news
our news

Climate Assembly calling for urgent and equitable action ahead of COP26

A gender-inclusive convening with representation from 40 countries with over 90 presenters, including panel on divestment from fossil fuels and deforestation
2021-09-07 | BankTrack, WECAN
blog
external news
our news

The Chain: Active Fires Detected in SLC Agrícola’s Fazenda Perdizes Property in the Amazon

2021-09-06 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

Forests & Finance Coalition warns foreign investors about the risk of the anti-environment agenda in the Brazilian Congress

2021-08-19 | Forests & Finance
blog
external news
our news

Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk

2021-07-30 | Sergio Baffoni – Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

The Chain: Less Rainfall Caused by Amazon Deforestation Could Lead to Almost $200B in Losses for Beef and Soy Sectors

2021-06-10 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

‘Green’ Bonds Can Worsen Social And Environmental Impacts, New Study Finds

2021-06-10 | EPN International
blog
external news
our news

Chinese banks urged to divest from firms linked to deforestation

China funnelling billions into harmful production of beef, soy and palm oil, says campaign group
2021-06-09 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio

New Global Witness analysis shows Chinese banks are pouring billions into destructive agribusiness linked to global deforestation, highlighting huge gaps in environmental and social risk management
2021-06-07 | Global Witness
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity

2021-05-11 | BNP Paribas
blog
external news
our news

China is world’s second largest financier of deforestation-linked commodities

New study finds significant risk associated with nearly 15 billion USD in loans and underwriting by Chinese financial institutions
2021-05-04 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Japan’s largest bank targeted by climate resolution

2021-03-29 | Tokyo | 350.org Japan, Kiko Network, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food

While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation.
2021-03-07 | Inside Climate News
blog
external news
our news

The banking industry’s role in the biodiversity crisis

2021-02-22 | Varsity
blog
external news
our news

Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
2021-01-18 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
blog
external news
our news

Why British biomass energy is a burning issue for Estonia

2020-12-09 | Engineering & Technology
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

American financiers invested more than USD 18 billion in companies linked to Indigenous Rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon

2020-10-27 | Brasília, Brazil and Oakland, USA | Amazon Watch, Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB)
blog
external news
our news

A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
blog
external news
our news

Global Witness, BankTrack and 19 other civil society organisations call on UK government not to leave finance out of a proposed new law on deforestation

2020-10-06 | United Kingdom | BankTrack, Global Witness
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

Largest US investors undermine efforts to halt rainforest destruction, new report finds

Rainforests face unprecedented fires, yet BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard have consistently voted in favor of deforestation.
2020-09-15 | Washington | Friends of the Earth US
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

Civil society denounces Indonesia’s government siding with companies threatening Indigenous Peoples, endangered species and the environment

2020-06-04 | Indonesia | Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

MUFG falls behind peers in new ESG finance policy announcement

MUFG’s policy revisions “disappointing”, says Rainforest Action Network
2020-05-14 | Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Rekentruc voor houtstook brengt meer stikstof in de lucht

(article in Dutch) De stikstofuitstoot moet dalen, maar twee energiebedrijven mogen juist meer uitstoten met houtovens. Daarvoor gebruiken ze oude, achterhaalde vergunningen.
2020-04-29 | Trouw
blog
external news
our news

Japan’s 2nd largest bank – Mizuho – announces strictest ESG policies to date in Japan

Japan’s 2nd largest bank – Mizuho – adopts NDPE criteria for forest sector clients and announces strictest ESG policies to date in Japan – This puts the bank well ahead of its competitors SMBC & MUFG
2020-04-22 | Forests & Finance
blog
external news
our news

The problem with biomass: Why investors need to step up on the next climate challenge

2020-04-21 | ShareAction
blog
external news
our news

Climate and forest campaigners call on BlackRock to divest from wood-burning energy

2020-03-23 | London, UK | Biofuelwatch
blog
external news
our news

Global finance sector failing to apply conservation criteria to pulp and paper funding

2020-03-21 | New York/Amsterdam | Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

Report: The five biggest financiers of new Amazon oil boom

BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase defy their own commitments by backing dangerous oil and gas extraction in the western Amazon
2020-03-12 | Oakland, California | Amazon Watch
blog
external news
our news

We are letting banks off the hook for financing environmental destruction - that must change

2019-10-23 | Independent
blog
external news
our news

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
blog
external news
our news

Global NGOs: Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World's Forests

Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon "The Amazon is on fire. Corporations share the blame. They need to become part of the solution."
2019-08-30 | Amazon Watch
blog
external news
our news

Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business

Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks
2019-05-02 | Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, Mandy Haggith – Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

Traders, farmers fined over links to deforestation in Cerrado

2018-05-24 | Feed Navigator
blog
external news
our news

The Chain: Paradise Papers Links APRIL’s Tax Avoidance to Deforestation and Banks, Could Impact USD 500 Million Loan

2017-11-16 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

Grangemouth renewable energy biomass power station: an unsustainable, high-risk potential investment

Investor briefing on 120MW biomass power plant in Scotland
2017-11-01 | Biofuelwatch
blog
external news
our news

“Responsible” investors under scrutiny for investing in climate-destroying banks

2017-09-26 | Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

New investor guide aims to help navigate social and environmental risks of commodities supply chains

While beef, palm oil, and soy are the subject of much scrutiny these days, Ceres has released a new investor guide, called Engage the Chain, that goes well beyond those staples, covering the environmental and social impacts of eight different agricultural commodities: beef, corn, dairy, fiber-based packaging, palm oil, soybeans, sugarcane, and wheat.
2017-06-28 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

New report linking Nordic banks and government pension funds to Indonesia’s palm oil deforestation

Nordic investments to Asian banks support rapacious palm oil producers with financing that impedes push for sustainability
2017-05-30 | Oslo, Norway | Fair Finance Guide Norway, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Rainforest Foundation Norway
blog
external news
our news

Major international banks and investors finance devastating impacts of forest-risk commodities

New report finds eight corporate giants in palm oil, pulp and paper, timber and rubber involved in social and environmental scandal; exposes financial banking
2017-04-24 | Tokyo | Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Friends of the Earth announces historic verdict in Indonesia’s fight against deforestation

Government forced to take stronger action on forest fires
2017-04-05 | Friends of the Earth
blog
external news
our news

Scientists warn Amazon peatland could face 'environmental disaster' due to palm oil threat

2017-03-23 | Energy Desk Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Comment: Deforestation presents a material risk for investors

NGOs and investors are increasingly pressing companies to take action against deforestation, say Mindy Lubber and Fiona Reynolds
2017-03-17 | Environmental Finance
blog
external news
our news

Scandinavian banks linked to violations of indigenous peoples’ rights in Borneo

2017-03-07 | Stockholm, Sweden | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedwatch
blog
external news
our news

HSBC funding destruction of vast areas of Indonesian rainforest, new report claims

2017-01-17 | London | Independent
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia's plans to protect its peatland forests are fatally flawed

2017-01-09 | The Ecologist
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia's forest concessionaires required to restore peatland

2016-12-31 | The Jakarta Post
blog
external news
our news

Indonesian civil society writes to banks: APRIL failing to implement its own policy

2016-11-29 | Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

Haze from Indonesian fires may have killed more than 100,000 people – study

2016-09-19 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

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
external news
our news

American retirement funds are destroying rainforests

Innovative new web tool empowers citizen investor action on deforestation
2016-07-27 | Washington, D.C. | Friends of the Earth US
blog
external news
our news

Environmental Paper Network and BankTrack publish minimum requirements for financiers of pulp and paper industry projects

2016-06-03 | EPN and BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

EU Investors, Land Grabs and Deforestation: Case-Studies

2015-06-11 | Fern
blog
external news
our news

Over 80% of future deforestation confined to just 11 places

2015-04-28 | WWF
blog
external news
our news

Forest Sector Transformation newsletter

2015-04-01 | WWF

Documents

Type:
Year:
ngo documents
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Briefing: Rabobank's financial services to the global meat and dairy companies fueling climate change

2023-01-31 00:00:00 | Feedback EU
correspondence
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Letter from Feedback EU, Feedback Global, BankTrack & World Animal Protection to Rabobank on industrial livestock

2023-01-31 00:00:00 | Feedback EU, Feedback Global, BankTrack & World Animal Protection
ngo documents
2023-01-17 00:00:00

Hot Money: 40 financial institutions are funding a climate-changing agri-methane footprint

2023-01-17 00:00:00 | Planet Tracker & Changing Markets
ngo documents
2022-09-23 00:00:00

Main findings: Consultations to obtain FPIC in the Paracel Project in Paraguay

2022-09-23 00:00:00 | Bank Information Centre and Grupo SUNU de Acción Intercultural
ngo documents
2022-09-23 00:00:00

Paracel pulp mill in Paraguay: A risky project

2022-09-23 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network, Instituto Maira, Bank Information Center (BIC), AXIAL Naturaleza y Cultura, International Accountability Project (IAP), and Grupo SUNU de Acción Intercultural
ngo documents
2022-12-14 00:00:00

Scorching The Earth

Pulp and paper expansion in Três Lagoas, Brazil
2022-12-14 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
ngo documents
2022-12-13 00:00:00

Protecting Biodiversity from Harmful Financing: Habitats with Threatened and Endemic Species, and Key Biodiversity Areas

Friends of the Earth US’ new briefing paper 03 calls on banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to activities and projects which may harm these critical biodiversity areas.
2022-12-13 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US
ngo documents
2022-12-13 00:00:00

Protecting Biodiversity from Harmful Financing: Internationally-Recognized Areas

Friends of the Earth US’ 2022 briefing paper 01 details the critical role of banks and financiers in protecting internationally recognized areas, such as World Heritage sites, IUCN category sites, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves.
2022-12-13 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US
ngo documents
2022-12-13 00:00:00

Protecting Biodiversity from Harmful Financing: Nationally and Sub-Nationally Recognized Areas

Friends of the Earth US’ 2022 briefing paper 02 calls on banks and financiers to protect nationally and sub-nationally recognized areas, such as parks, reserves, memorials, monuments, preserves, among others, by prohibiting direct and indirect financing to activities and projects which may harm these areas.
2022-12-13 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US
correspondence
2022-12-12 00:00:00

Letter from 51 CSOs to Public Banks and Financiers on their Role in Stopping and Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis

2022-12-12 00:00:00 | 51 CSOs
correspondence
2022-12-12 00:00:00

Letter from 65 CSOs to Commercial Banks and Financiers on their Role in Stopping and Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis

2022-12-12 00:00:00 | 65 CSOs
correspondence
2022-12-12 00:00:00

Letter from 73 CSOs to Signatory Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on State Parties Must Stop and Reverse Biodiversity Loss

2022-12-12 00:00:00 | 73 CSOs
ngo documents
2020-07-06 00:00:00

Paper Tiger

Why the EU’s RED II biomass sustainability criteria fail forests and the climate
2020-07-06 00:00:00 | Mary S. Booth, PhD; Ben Mitchell, PhD
ngo documents
2021-07-15 00:00:00

Wood pellet damage

How Dutch government subsidies for Estonian biomass aggravate the biodiversity and climate crisis
2021-07-15 00:00:00 | SOMO
our publications
2022-10-21 00:00:00

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

2022-10-21 00:00:00 | BankTrack
correspondence
2022-10-14 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack, WECAN, other organisations to Equator Principles association on new commitments ahead of 20th anniversary

2022-10-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack, WECAN, other organisations
ngo documents
2022-06-23 00:00:00

Conflict Plantations

Chapter 3: Stolen lands and fading forests in Chile
2022-06-23 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network (EPN)
ngo documents
2019-09-23 00:00:00

Money to Burn

How iconic banks and investors fund the destruction of the world’s largest rainforests
2019-09-23 00:00:00 | Global Witness
other documents
2021-12-10 00:00:00

Wet Natuurbescherming, RWE Generation NL

2021-12-10 00:00:00 | Mobilisation for the environment (MOB)
ngo documents
2022-02-03 00:00:00

CSO statement on the proposed EU regulation on deforestation-free products

2022-02-03 00:00:00 | Global Witness & 110 CSOs
ngo documents
2021-09-01 00:00:00

Voices from Tapajós: Indigenous views on planned infrastructure projects

2021-09-01 00:00:00 | Society for Threatened Peoples
our publications
2021-12-13 00:00:00

Asia Pulp and Paper: Risk briefing for banks and investors

2021-12-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Forest & Finance Coalition, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
ngo documents
2021-11-02 00:00:00

Open letter of concerns on the issuance of USD 1 billion in Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) by JBS

2021-11-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Greenpeace
ngo documents
2021-10-26 00:00:00

Fool’s Paradise: How Biodiversity Offsets Don’t Stop Biodiversity Loss

2021-10-26 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth
ngo documents
2021-09-27 00:00:00

SIX PROBLEMS WITH BECCS

2021-09-27 00:00:00 | Fern
ngo documents
2021-09-09 00:00:00

OPEN LETTER CONCERNING THREATS FROM THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OF PT. OKI PULP AND PAPER MILL – APP SINAR MAS

2021-09-09 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
ngo documents
2021-08-24 00:00:00

Investing in troubled waters

The material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector
2021-08-24 00:00:00 | Feedback, Changing Markets Foundation, CFFA, and WSRW
ngo documents
2021-08-09 00:00:00

Violations in the name of conservation

2021-08-09 00:00:00 | Amnesty International
ngo documents
2021-07-08 00:00:00

Banking on Amazon destruction

2021-07-08 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch & Stand.earth
other documents
2021-07-01 00:00:00

Financial Sector Guide for the Convention on Biological Diversity

2021-07-01 00:00:00 | CBD, UNPFI and others
ngo documents
2021-06-29 00:00:00

Biodiversity and finance: building on common ground with customary rights-holders

2021-06-29 00:00:00 | Forest Peoples Programme
other documents
2021-06-24 00:00:00

Guidance on Biodiversity Target Setting for PRB signatories

2021-06-24 00:00:00 | UNEPFI
ngo documents
2021-06-14 00:00:00

Beyond the gap: placing biodiversity finance in the global economy

2021-06-14 00:00:00 | Third World Network
other documents
2021-06-11 00:00:00

IPBES-IPCC Co-sponsored workshop Biodiversity and Climate Change - Scientific Outcome

2021-06-11 00:00:00 | IPCC and IPBES
other documents
2021-06-11 00:00:00

IPBES-IPCC CO-SPONSORED WORKSHOP BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP REPORT

2021-06-11 00:00:00 | IPCC and IPBES
other documents
2021-06-03 00:00:00

State of Finance for Nature

2021-06-03 00:00:00 | UNEP, WEF, ELD, and Vivid Economics
correspondence
2021-05-25 00:00:00

Letter

letter to 50+ banks to protect biodiversity in run up to Kunming conference
2021-05-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack
csr policies
2021-05-10 00:00:00

Biodiversity Policy

2021-05-10 00:00:00 | De Volksbank
ngo documents
2021-05-03 00:00:00

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

2021-05-03 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
ngo documents
2021-04-28 00:00:00

Keep Forests Standing

Evaluating the Brands and Banks Driving Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses
2021-04-28 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
ngo documents
2021-04-26 00:00:00

NGO concerns over the proposed 30% target for protected areas and absence of safeguards for Indigenous Peoples and local communities

2021-04-26 00:00:00 | Survival International, Rainforest Foundation, Minority Rights Group International
ngo documents
2020-12-02 00:00:00

Beef, banks and the Brazilian Amazon

How Brazilian beef companies and their international financiers greenwash their links to Amazon deforestation
2020-12-02 00:00:00 | Global Witness
ngo documents
2020-10-27 00:00:00

Complicity in Destruction III

2020-10-27 00:00:00 | APIB and Amazon Watch
ngo documents
2021-04-20 00:00:00

Re-thinking nature-based solutions: seeking transformative change through culture and rights

2021-04-20 00:00:00 | Forest Peoples Programme
ngo documents
2021-04-15 00:00:00

Making Mincemeat of the Pantanal

2021-04-15 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2021-03-19 00:00:00

Countdown to Extinction

What will it take to get companies to act?
2021-03-19 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2021-03-11 00:00:00

Destruction: certified

2021-03-11 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2021-01-26 00:00:00

Time for change: Delivering deforestation-free supply chains

2021-01-26 00:00:00 | Global Canopy
other documents
2021-01-18 00:00:00

Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
ngo documents
2020-10-06 00:00:00

Press release - Open letter to call on UK government not to leave finance out of a proposed new law on deforestation

2020-10-06 00:00:00 | BankTrack and Global Witness
our publications
2020-11-30 00:00:00

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

2020-11-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications
2020-10-20 00:00:00

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

Joint civil society statement
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others
our publications
2020-09-16 00:00:00

Principles for Paris-Aligned Financial Institutions: Climate Impact, Fossil Fuels and Deforestation

2020-09-16 00:00:00 | RAN, BankTrack
csr policies
2013-02-28 00:00:00

APP's Forest conservation policy

2013-02-28 00:00:00 | APP
ngo documents
2017-06-13 00:00:00

Japanese and Malaysian banks and investors continue to pump billions of dollars into forest-risk companies, without adequate environmental and social safeguards

2017-06-13 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK Indonesia & Profundo
ngo documents
2017-05-30 00:00:00

Nordic investments in banks financing Indonesian palm oil

2017-05-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Foundation Norway, FFG Sweden and FFG Norway
csr policies
2016-10-28 00:00:00

Position on Forest Certification

2016-10-28 00:00:00 | Bank of America
csr policies
2016-10-28 00:00:00

Forests Practices Policy

2016-10-28 00:00:00 | Bank of America
csr policies
2015-11-18 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Risk Briefing - Forestry & Logging

2015-11-18 00:00:00 | Barclays
csr policies
2015-09-16 00:00:00

Land governance Statement

2015-09-16 00:00:00 | Rabobank Group
our publications
2014-11-25 00:00:00

Going out, but going green?

Assessing the implementation of China's Green Credit Guidelines
2014-11-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth US
csr policies
2013-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainable Forestry Standard

2013-12-31 00:00:00 | Citi
csr policies
2011-09-13 00:00:00

Sector Policy - Wood Pulp

2011-09-13 00:00:00 | BNP Paribas
ngo documents
2010-06-02 00:00:00

Bankers on Tenterhooks

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

Media

Moorim operations in Papua

Traditional clans in Merauke blocks the access to the forest to PT. Papua Nutfah Marind Papua Member of Gebze Clan Road bordering PNMP Workers family Flooded Plantation Deforestation at the project site

Links

Forest500

Global Canopy’s Forest500 analysis of anti-deforestation policies.

https://forest500.org/rankings/financial-institutions

Forests & Finance

Forests & Finance is a searchable database that reveals the finance flowing into commodities driving deforestation and land degradation in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa, and Brazil. It also includes policy assessments and case studies. BankTrack is part of the Forests & Finance coalition.

http://forestsandfinance.org/

Global Markets for Biomass Energy are Devastating U.S. Forests

https://media.dogwoodalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Biomass-Investigation-Booklet-2019.pdf

Netherlands campaign against new biomass plant

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2021/netherlands-campaign-against-new-biomass-plant/

Southeast US wood pellet plants exporting to Europe

https://www.southernenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/SELC_WoodPelletExportMap_2022_0414_maptable.pdf

Trase Finance

Trase Finance is a tool that brings transparency to over $1 trillion in deforestation financing. It is an initiative of Global Canopy, Stockholm Environment Institute and Neural Alpha, Trase Finance links the trade of commodities that drive deforestation to financial markets worldwide. The platform covers more than 12,000 financial institutions who invest in or lend to commodity traders exporting Brazilian beef, Brazilian soy, and Indonesian palm oil.

https://trase.finance/
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