The Xinjiang Police Files recently released by international media confirm long-standing accusations against the Chinese government of oppressing the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang… Read More »China and the Xinjiang Region – German Fashion Corporations and their Controversial Cotton Business
It has been almost a year since Desiree Fixler, the dismissed former head of ESG at DWS, publicly objected to the quality of DWS’s sustainable… Read More »Sustainable Investments of DWS – For risks and side effects read this article and ask the BaFin or the BKA
On May 19th 2022 the documentary Immoral Code premiered, which contemplates the impact of killer robots in an increasingly automated world – one where machines… Read More »Stop Killer Robots’ documentary Immoral Code premieres
Just after updating the online consumer portal Faire Fonds, which analyses controversial investments of 2,163 retail funds, British daily Financial Times reports about findings of… Read More »Update of Faire Fonds online consumer portal gets covered by Financial Times
The Covid 19 pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine overshadow, to some extent, long-standing human rights violations and environmental destruction by international corporations,… Read More »Eyes closed, costs down, profits up.
For years, Facing Finance has flagged companies whose activities are causing significant environmental degradation and widespread socio-economic harm. Among the groups most severely affected are… Read More »Supply chain due diligence and the role of the financial sector – The case of the Fénix nickel mine in Guatemala
During the last few days, the world has witnessed a race within the western oil and gas sector to withdraw from their Russian assets, as… Read More »Western Oil and Gas majors race out of Russia – Total and Chevron stick around
GLS Bank (96%), EthikBank (92%) and Triodos Bank* (87%) hold the best sustainability assessments Sparda-Bank West (8%), Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf (23%) and DekaBank (27%) demonstrate the… Read More »Press Release – Banks must stop adding fuel to the fire of climate change and military conflicts – Fair Finance Guide attests to the existence of sustainability deficits in the German banking sector
The last few days and weeks have illustrated the dangers of oil pipelines like a picture book, with local populations and the surrounding environment having… Read More »Disastrous Oil Spill in Thailand, Ecuador and Peru – German banks among the financiers
What do banks have to do with global plastic pollution? This is a question that Facing Finance has been exploring in detail over the past… Read More »Recording of Event about bank’s role in global plastic pollution
