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Fair Finance International (FFI) is an international civil society network that seeks to strengthen the commitment of banks and other financial institutions to social, environmental and human rights standards. Website fairfinanceinternational.org
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Significant gaps between Japanese banks 2030 goals and current emissions: Fair Finance Japan @fairfinanceasia.bsky.social greencentralbanking.com/2025/04/03/n...

📢 Fair Finance International's Q1 newsletter is out now! For updates on the work and achievements of the network read here ➡️: bit.ly/4lg8q3Y To receive future updates, sign up here ➡️: eepurl.com/h2U9IL

Last week, Shell reported that it completed the sale of its oil assets (SPDC) in the Niger Delta. By leaving now, it appears that the company washes their hands of the Niger Delta, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of citizens forced to live with the pollution. www.bothends.org/en/Whats-new...

Big Corporations are using SLAPP suits - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation -to silence & intimidate civil society. These legal threats jeopardize free speech and civic action. Oxfam stands with those who challenge corporate power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💰 A new review of @ifcorg.bsky.social's Sustainability Framework can help make trillions of $ of finance more responsible. 📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇 tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3

3 years without sufficient action by #Repsol to clean up oil spill in Peru, resulting in multiple fines news.mongabay.com/2025/03/5-ta...

EU watchdogs warn that weakening rules risks another financial crash www.ft.com/content/a421...

ISDS is a powerful tool for fossil fuel and mining companies against environmental policies. We included ISDS in the latest version of the Fair Finance Methodology climate chapter. Banks have to scrutinize the use of ISDS by the companies they finance. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣The new Fair Finance International Methodology update is out now! This latest version strengthens the framework used to assess #financialinstitutions' policies, ensuring they align with global standards on #Environmental, #Social and #Governance topics. Find out more👇

Very happy to participate in this conference and come together with like-minded organisations to see how we can seize opportunities to advance #sustainablefinance in 2025 and beyond. 🍃🌍💰 @shareaction.bsky.social

Together with 23 orgs. we highlighted: 🔗 The key linkages between #FossilFuels & climate harms, ⚖️ States & corporations' responsibilities to provide remedy for those harms & #PayUp. Read our submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights & climate report: climaterights.org/wp-content/u...

📣New Methodology update from Fair Finance International! This 2025 update introduces significant refinements across multiple themes, reinforcing our commitment to fostering #transparency and #accountability in the financial sector. Find out more👉 bit.ly/3XDU17G #fairfinance #FFGIMethodology

📣 On 13th March @fairfinanceasia.bsky.social is holding a #WorldConsumerRightsDay webinar. Reps from BDO Unibank, State Bank of Pakistan & Fair Finance Sweden will discuss policies & practices that make #sustainability a shared responsibility. Register: bit.ly/4itNW5J More info: bit.ly/4i7cIbX

Happy to be one of the co-signatories of this statement. A truly sustainable future requires moving away from harmful #bioenergy and fundamentally reorganising our economy. Read more👇

♀️⚧️ This #IWD2025 find out how more #inclusive, #responsible, and #sustainable financial systems can help bridge the gap between access to rights and the tools that provide #equality and #empowerment for women and girls. #ForAllWomenAndGirls

As #IWD2025 approaches, @fairfinanceasia.bsky.social & #Oxfam Indonesia call for a just, gender-transformative #energytransition. We urge ADB to answer CSOs' questions & strengthen gender considerations in its #EnergyTransitionMechanism & amplify women’s voices. Read more: bit.ly/3QGRlST

JP Morgan’s ‘sustainable’ funds invested £200m in mining giant Glencore #ESG www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 New EU Commission proposal turns supply chain law into empty shell. "With the omnibus package, Commission President Von der Leyen is taking a chainsaw to environmental and human rights protections," said Oxfam Germany Franziska Humbert. 👉 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Interview in Le Monde about the Financial Exclusions Tracker, the website we created to inform investors, media and civil society about blacklisted companies. Most company exclusions are related to #climate, #weapons, #tobacco and #humanrights www.lemonde.fr/argent/artic...

Big industry says they need public funding for the energy transition... But they're funnelling 75% of their profits into shareholders payouts 🤔 🔎 Our new investigation with @foeeurope.bsky.social exposes a system that puts shareholder gains before public interest. Have a look ➡️ bitl.to/40NX

Trump Makes Bribery Great Again www.theafricareport.com/376701/make-...

Our planet is burning and our banks are fuelling the fire. UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016.​ It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos. Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk

We join 16 NGOs & several specialists in urging the @ec.europa.eu to prioritize a targeted review of #SolvencyII requirements in 2025 to address EIOPA’s findings that #FossilFuel assets carry a higher risk & that they can’t be considered ‘standard’ investments. Read more 👇 @reclaimfinance.org

Today, campaigners, activists and affected community members across the world are joining forces and calling on ING to stop financing polluting and destructive companies. #INGGlobalAction Find out more at ➡️: @banktrack.bsky.social @fossielvrijnl.bsky.social @xrnl.bsky.social

How Swedbank has initiated Sustainable Banking Shift, following consumer pressure #FairFinance fintechmagazine.com/articles/how...

Swedbank: cutting Ties with Fossil Fuel Financing. Will other banks follow? sustainabilitymag.com/articles/how...

‘The last drops of our water’: how a mine left some of Peru’s poorest high and dry #Glencore #BHP #Mitsubishi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Elsa Merma y su comunidad luchan contra la contaminación causado por la mineria #Glencore www.tiktok.com/@elsamermacc...

Judge blocks major North Sea oil and gas projects in victory for activists #Shell #Equinor www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/839f600...

NEW REPORT: Banking on Thin Ice 3 After much protest from Swedish bank clients Swedbank goes (almost) fossil free 💚 At the same time SEB, Nordea and Danske Bank have continued to pump over SEK 60 billion into #fossilfuel companies in the last two years 👎 Find out more 👇 👇

With Trump in power, European banks must act to stop LNG expansion, great article by @luciepinson.bsky.social, questioning @inggroup.bsky.social #INGBank www.thebanker.com/content/3dec...

We're urging @CHansenEU and the @EU_Commission to make a more #PlantBased future a reality. Transitioning to more plant-based food and farming systems is key to achieving competitive and #SustainableFoodSystems in the EU. Our letter: bit.ly/3WQkVcj @madrebrava.bsky.social @beuc.bsky.social

SOMO’s #CSDDD Datahub is live! 💥 Which companies must comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)? 👉 7,000 companies globally, 3,400 EU corporate groups. 👉 Fewer companies than @ec.europa.eu suggests—debunking bizz lobby myths. Browse it now! ⬇️ bit.ly/42gwdtM

Mozambique LNG: Financial backers are yet to show public support for independent international investigation into alleged human rights violations. 126 Mozambican and international CSOs demand their withdrawal from the project. #StopMozambiqueLNG Find out more 👉https://bit.ly/3WrpbOU

Watch and read the report #TakersNotMakers #WEF25 #Davos youtu.be/SxO3h_Xr01s?...

We are in a billionaire economy, influenced by billionaires and designed to serve the interest of billionaires, at our expense. Workers from the Global South provide 90% of the world's work and receive only 21% of the revenue. We need to dismantle the billionaire economy. More in our report.

Hace 3 años, #Repsol derramó 12,000 barriles de petróleo en nuestras costas. Sus “planes de rehabilitación” han sido rechazados, los ecosistemas están destruidos y miles de familias pescadoras pierden más de 149,000 soles al año. ⏳ ¿Cuánto más tenemos que esperar?

CooperAccion advierte que planes de rehabilitación de Repsol tras derrame en Perú son insuficientes quepasamedia.com/noticias/med... @cooperaccion.bsky.social

Three years after the devastating Repsol oil spill off the coast of Peru, 60% of the oil has not yet been recovered and the company has still not assumed its responsibilities. Find out more and access this new report from #FairFinancePeru member @cooperaccion.bsky.social 👇 bit.ly/3PAx0hF

2025 must be the year when the rules of global #finance are reformed www.nature.com/articles/d41...

160+ CSOs, trade unions & activists say #NoToOmnibus We want an EU that leads on the protection of people & planet. Weakening the #CSDDD, #CSRD & #EUTaxonomy is a betrayal of the EU’s commitments. corporatejustice.org/publications... @eccjorg.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

⚖️Public health, workers’ rights and environmental protections are the backbone of a fair and resilient society. 270 + organizations, inclu @fairfinanceint.bsky.social are calling on the #EUCommission to uphold #RulesToProtect people, nature and democracy. Read the letter 👉: bit.ly/3Wciy35

Today is 'pollutocrat day' - when the richest 1% have burned through their entire carbon allowance for the whole year. It’s time to #MakeRichPollutersPay. Watch & Act: https://buff.ly/4h0lOXg 

Shell’s plans to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales are under scrutiny as a group of major #shareholders have filed a resolution questioning the strategy’s compatibility with #climate goals. @shareaction.bsky.social @accr.bsky.social

#ClimateAction isn't just about tackling the climate crisis—it's about ensuring fair solutions for everyone.⚖️ Catch episode 1 of the #FairFinanceSA School, "Introduction to Climate Justice and Climate Finance" to understand why #ClimateJustice matters▶️ shorturl.at/f2BwR

#GetReady🤩 1/2🧵This week, the #FairFinance Coalition Southern Africa is launching its Fair Finance Online School—a new and exciting online resource designed to empower activists, communities, and changemakers like YOU in the fight for #ClimateJustice.🙌 #FairFinanceSA

📢 @fairfinanceint.bsky.social's Q4 newsletter is out now! For updates on the work and achievements of the network read here ➡️: bit.ly/4gGvkhX To receive future updates, sign up here ➡️: eepurl.com/h2U9IL