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New call on banks not to finance Galician Pulp mill

BankTrack’s Dodgy Deal launched today exposes the devastating environmental and social costs of the Altri-led mega-project.
2025-05-29 | Santiago de Compostela | BankTrack, EPN, Greenpeace Spain
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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.
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2025-05-28 | Quentin Aubineau – BankTrack
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Raiffeisen Bank International to process Turkish gas payments to Russia: BankTrack and B4Ukraine response

2025-05-28 | BankTrack, B4Ukraine
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Big Four UK banks: Falling short on climate action?

A climate risk assessment of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, and NatWest
2025-05-28 | InfluenceMap
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New research: 2025 Southeast Asia fossil fuel divestment scorecard

2025-05-24 | Kuala Lumpur | Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED), Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), Energy Shift Southeast Asia, People, RimbaWatch, WALHI
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Japanese megabank SMBC accused of fueling climate crisis in Bangladesh

The billion-dollar drain: Who's benefiting from SMBC’s power deals in Bangladesh?
2025-05-21 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network (CLEAN)
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Still banking on false solutions

BankTrack’s False Solutions Tracker shows that most of the 30 banks assessed count finance for harmful technologies towards their sustainable finance targets.
2025-05-20 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Glencore’s coal expansion fueled by European banks

2025-05-20 | Reclaim Finance
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Santander backed major South American deforester Cresud despite net zero pledge

Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the size of Madrid and significant carbon emissions
2025-05-15 | Argentina | Global Witness
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Focus banks

KCB Bank

Kenya

Kenya's KCB committed $200 million to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). When 11 peaceful activists attempted to deliver a letter about this, they were lured into a basement where they were ambushed and arrested on false charges. 

Standard Chartered

United Kingdom

Held its AGM in early May, where campaigners called on the bank to set a robust energy transition plan and end finance for destructive projects in Mozambique & the Philippines. Read the AGM report here. 

 

ING

Netherlands

Dutch banking giant ING was served a giant 12-metre “Bill of Destruction” at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), revealing the long list of damages linked to ING’s fossil fuel financing.

Banco Santander

Spain

In May, a major Global Witness investigation found Santander financed major South American deforester Cresud, despite net zero pledges.

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Latest publications
BankTrack Annual Report 2024
2025-04-15 00:00:00 | BankTrack
Burning the Bridge
2024-12-11 00:00:00 | BankTrack, B4Ukraine
The BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024
2024-11-27 00:00:00 | BankTrack
Banking on biodiversity collapse 2024
2024-10-16 00:00:00 | Forest and Finance Coalition
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