International Sustainable Finance
At Friends of the Earth, we work to strengthen and raise environmental and social standards at international financial institutions. Our goal is to promote the highest environmental, social, climate, and sustainability standards and practices in the international banking sector in an effort to protect the environment, communities, and climate on a local and global level.
We advocate for the U.S. to provide its fair share of funding, based on its historical role in funding the climate crisis, on an international scale. We push public finance institutions to stop putting our tax dollars into fossil fuel projects around the world and to invest in renewables. And we push banks to enact environmental and social safeguards for their investments.
COLOMBIA – Today, a global group of NGOs and rights holders -- including Rainforest Action Network, Third World Network, the Forests & Finance coalition, Indigenous Environmental Network, WECAN, Bank Track, Global Forest Coalition, Friends of the Earth International and other NGOs -- have filed a complaint with…
The US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) voted to approve a massive financing deal for a petrochemical project in Malaysia, compromising US’ climate pledges in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in November.
Although the Biden Administration has committed to ending all federal funding for overseas fossil fuel projects, EXIM continues to undermine this crucial assurance by providing billions in public funds to fossil-fuel projects worldwide.
The World Bank Group (WBG) plays a massive role in directing global economic development, and has the potential to support climate mitigation and adaptation by strategically using public funds. Unfortunately, it continues to invest in profitable, polluting companies under the guise of green development. Over the past year, the…
The World Bank Group's mission is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity on a livable planet.
Serious financial, social, environmental, and climate risks aside, the development of LNG in Mozambique has also been tangled up in a corruption scandal of international scale, and a devastating militarized conflict impacting over a million people.
Fossil fuel financing from those signers is falling drastically, and most signatories have either eliminated or considerably reduced fossil fuel financing.
Americans have made it clear: We want a cleaner future. This means investing in sustainable and efficient renewable energy at home and abroad.
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