Mining Policies

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See which financial institutions are most involved and how their environmental, social, and governance policies stack up. These assessments were carried out in 2025 using the Forests & Finance metal / mineral mining policy assessment framework which can be found here. The investment value is for June 2025, and the credit value is for the period 2016-2024. All values are in millions USD.

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Policy Score Key: Environment Score Social Score Governance Score

Name

Investment

Credit

100

Total Percentage Scored

Full assessment details will be added in October for six institutions assessed in conjunction with Fair Finance International. These institutions are: ABP, Allianz, BBVA, ING, Deutsche Bank and Santander.

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