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Sustainable Economic Systems

We aim to create a more environmentally sustainable and socially just world by transforming financial and economic systems.

Sustainable Economic Systems

We work to redirect tax policies and public spending to make polluters pay for the costs of their pollution, and to drive the transition to a cleaner, low-carbon economy.

At home and abroad, we advocate for policies that minimize environmental and social harm and fund a brighter future. In the United States, we strengthen regulations to encourage sustainability in financial markets and fight trade policies that allow companies to run roughshod over the environment and human rights. We also work with allies around the world to alter lending practices at financial institutions such as the World Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and Wall Street banks that fund polluting activities and harm communities in developing countries.

Recursos

Report: Financing for Biodiverse Futures?

A new report from Friends of the Earth US explains how banks and financiers must align with the GBF and develop a biodiversity plan.

Letter on EXIM’s Potential Support of Reko Diq Mine

The Reko Diq project is located in Pakistan and is expected to be one of the world’s largest suppliers of transition metals.

Holding Course, Missing Speed

Protecting progress on ending fossil fuel finance and unlocking clean energy support

Issue Brief: Growing US Public Financing for Minerals Projects

Since 2022, over $19.2 billion in U.S. federal financing for mineral mining projects has been approved or is under consideration.

Memorandum in Support of EXIM Complaint

On March 13, 2025, the “acting” Board of Directors of Defendant Export-Import Bank of the United States (“EXIM”) unlawfully approved a $4.7 billion loan—one of the largest direct loans in it…

FOE v EXIM Complaint

Plaintiffs Friends of the Earth U.S. and Justiça Ambiental bring this action against Defendants Export-Import Bank of the United States (“EXIM”) and its “acting” Board of Directors.

As part of our international sustainable finance campaign, we track government-backed institutions that fund energy projects overseas. We are working to end public financing of fossil fuels and to give a voice to affected communities!

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