Corporates

Investors

The resources here will be useful for institutional and individual investors. They are arranged by type:

Detailed briefings
In-depth reports
Presentations providing an overview

Briefings

The use of palm oil for biofuel and as biomass for energy
(PDF† 67K) August 2006
Friends of the Earth's position on the use of palm oil for biofuel and as biomass for energy.

Barclays, human rights and the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline
(PDF† 74K) September 2005
This briefing describes some of the ways Barclays has broken its own rules and has infringed its own human rights policies to fund the trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline.

Barclays and the financing of the Narmada Dams
(PDF† 42K) January 2005
This briefing looks at Barclays' involvement in the Narmada Dam Project and the principles and laws it breaches in doing so.

Barclays and Omkareshwar Dam
(PDF† 45K) October 2004
This briefing reveals how Barclays are set to fund a dam with huge environmental and social consequences that violates their green finance principles.

Every Little Hurts: Why Tesco needs to be tamed
(PDF† 60K) June 2004
This briefing sets out some of the growing evidence that Tesco's success is coming at a high price to local communities, UK farmers and overseas workers, in stark contrast to the Tesco's claims.

HSBC - financing forest destruction and social conflict
(PDF† 156K) May 2004
This briefing reveals that customers and shareholders of HSBC are unaware that through their mortgages, overdrafts and shares they have unwittingly financed companies destroying rainforests and damaging communities in Indonesia.

Cadbury's chocolate and palm oil
(PDF† 119K) May 2004
Confectionary giant Cadbury-Schweppes considers itself an international leader in corporate social responsibility, however this briefing shows that their use of palm oil can leave a bitter taste.

Rio Tinto - What's yours is mine
(PDF† 114K) April 2004
A media briefing looking at two examples of the company's activities which clearly illustrate why concerns about the company's greenwash persist.

AGM Season 2004
(PDF† 133K) April 2004
An introduction to Friends of the Earth's activities at Annual General Meetings throughout Spring 2004. Contains a list of the companies being targetted and the reasons why.

Barclays and the Karahnjukar project
(PDF† 154K) January 2004
Exposes how Barclays bank are helping to arrange a loan to an Icelandic power company to construct the countries biggest hydropower project in the Iceland Central Highlands, the second largest remaining wilderness area in Europe, in apparent breach of the banks own green project finance principles.

Older briefings are available here.

Reports

Shell: Use your profit to clean up your mess
(PDF† - 1.26 MB) Feb 2007
Report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social destruction caused by its projects

A Big Deal? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Finance Sector in Europe
(PDF† - 360K) Dec 2005
This report discusses the limitations of current voluntary initiatives to manage the negative social and environmental impacts generated by the financial sector in both developed and developing countries.

Hidden Voices - The CBI, corporate lobbying and sustainability
(PDF† - 563 KB) July 2005
This report raises serious concerns about how the CBI exaggerates the cost of regulation, and the benefits that it can have.

Lessons not learned- the other Shell Report
(PDF† - 505 KB) June 2005
This report tells the real story of living on Shell's doorstep around the world, that Shell's reports fail to mention.

Pumping poverty: DfID and the oil industry
(PDF - 582K) March 2005
This report investigates the role of British overseas development aid in facilitating oil development. It finds that far from helping the worlds poorest people, such aid often serves instead its wealthiest corporations, leaving the poor worse off than before.

The Sakhalin II PSA - a Production 'Non-Sharing' Agreement
(PDF - 365K) November 2004
This report analyses the revenue distribution of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East.

Behind the shine - the other Shell report
(PDF† - 840K) June 2004
Highlights Shell's poor performance in the area of corporate social responsibility using accounts from people who live next door to Shell around the world.

BAT's big wheeze
(PDF† - 900K) April 2004
The alternative British American Tobacco social and environmental report.

Older reports are available here.

Presentations

Ethical Investment
(Powerpoint file - 141K) March 2005
Presentation on whether ethical investment can deliver sustainable development. For a downloadable copy of this presentation please contact the corporates team.

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