![Leopard 2 A7 in the training centre of the german army | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Boevaya mashina [CC BY-SA 4.0] - Wikimedia](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2018/02/Leopard_2_A7-120x120.jpg "Leopard 2 A7 in the training centre of the german army | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Boevaya mashina [CC BY-SA 4.0] - Wikimedia")
Just a few days after Deniz Yücel’s surprise release, it appears that Turkey is expecting something in return. At the Munich Security Conference, Prime Minister Yildrim told dpa that it had requested German participation in the planned construction of the ... →
![Greenpeace-Aktivisten protestieren gegen den Klimawandel | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Tim Aubry [CC BY-SA 3.0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Too_big_to_fail_Greenpeace_banner_Phil_Radford.jpg](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2018/02/Too_big_to_fail_Greenpeace_banner_Phil_Radford-120x120.jpg "Greenpeace-Aktivisten protestieren gegen den Klimawandel | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Tim Aubry [CC BY-SA 3.0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Too_big_to_fail_Greenpeace_banner_Phil_Radford.jpg")
The latest Greenpeace report published January 2018 exposes Samsung Electronics’ overreliance on fossil fuels. Reports show that Samsung used more than 16,000GW/h of energy in 2016 alone, of which only 1% was sourced from renewables.((https://www.greenpeace.de/sites/www.greenpeace.de/files/publications/20171017-factsheet-greenpeace-green-it-guide.pdf)) This lags far behind other ... →
Eni is facing a number of charges in the year 2018. The largest and most well-known case is that of Eni’s corruption allegations in relation to the purchase of OPL 245 in Nigeria. Where it is alleged that Eni and ... →
Extract from Dirty Profits 5 report on Norilsk Nickel. Published February 2017
Norilsk Nickel, as reported in our previous Dirty Profits 5 report , has had serious concerns in relation to environmental pollution and health problems for the local population. ... →
![Trump im Gespräch mit Putin während dem G20-Gipfel 2017 in Hamburg | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Website of the Russian President [CC BY 4.0] - Kremlin.ru](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2017/12/PutinTrump-120x120.jpg "Trump im Gespräch mit Putin während dem G20-Gipfel 2017 in Hamburg | Bild (Ausschnitt): © Website of the Russian President [CC BY 4.0] - Kremlin.ru")
Investigations by the FBI into the alleged Russian manipulations of the 2016 US presidential elections are now including the Deutsche Bank. There is a suspicion that the bank’s loans to the US President have ties to the Russian government. According ... →
To date, 181 countries have signed and ratified the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. With the aim of limiting the consumption of tobacco and its life-threatening consequences and reducing the number of smokers. The agreement is ... →
![Commerzbank-Zentrale in Frankfurt am Main | Bild (Ausschnitt): © David Schiersner [CC BY 2.0] - flickr](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2017/11/20739518149_d87f94e75b_z-120x120.jpg "Commerzbank-Zentrale in Frankfurt am Main | Bild (Ausschnitt): © David Schiersner [CC BY 2.0] - flickr")
As reported by n-tv and Handelsblatt the attorney general of Frankfurt authorised raids on offices in the Commerzbank headquarters as well as 3 private houses of accused individuals in the second week of November. The raid was based on the ... →
Deutschland und Frankreich wollen mit einem unverbindlichen Verhaltenskodex „Killer Roboter“ in Schach halten und entfernen sich vom Ziel eines präventiven, völkerrechtlich verbindlichen Verbotsvertrages. Rüstungsindustrie soll helfen und beraten.
(Berlin / Genf, 13.11.2017) – Nach jahrelangem, ergebnislosen Meinungsaustausch über ein Verbot ... →
![Bild (Ausschnitt): © JD Lasica [CC BY-NC 2.0] - flickr](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2017/09/3017880307_d50c408e73_z-120x120.jpg "Bild (Ausschnitt): © JD Lasica [CC BY-NC 2.0] - flickr")
Many leading researchers, IT engineers and tech entrepreneurs agree that the uncontrolled, rapidly advancing research in the context of the military use of autonomous weapon systems is becoming increasingly dangerous. Elon Musk recently warned of the risk of a 3rd ... →
![Bild (Ausschnitt): © Rainforest Action Network [CC BY NC 2.0] - flickr](http://www.facing-finance.org/files/2017/08/RainforestXDestructioj-120x120.jpg "Bild (Ausschnitt): © Rainforest Action Network [CC BY NC 2.0] - flickr")
In the last week of August, Brazilian President Temer, who has previously been arrested for corruption, released a huge nature reserve in the Amazon rainforest for raw material exploitation. The nature reserve is located in the national park Reserva Nacional ... →