Netwerk Vlaanderen - Publications

Publications

Within the framework of the campaign 'My money. Clear consience?', Netwerk Vlaanderen performs a study into the Belgian banks and their investments in the weapon industry and in activities which violate human rights. Moreover it promotes and recommends sustainable financial products and services.

Netwerk Vlaanderen brings out dossiers, brochures and e-zines in English.

Our magazine 'A different approach to money' is published four times a year (in Dutch).
More reports you will find on our Dutch website.

Report 'Bankers on Tenterhooks'

September 2010

Climate change: co-funded by banks operating in Belgium

This report shows that Belgian banks finance the building of new coal plants, the extraction of oil from tar sands and deforestation with our savings and investment money. This is happening despite the fact that most of these banks have declared their support for greenhouse gas emission reductions. Nevertheless, our savings and investment money is being used for investments that threaten our future.

Report ‘Worldwide investments in cluster munitions producers. A shared responsibility’

Netwerk Vlaanderen campaigns around banks and their investments in weapons. In the field of cluster munitions, a lot has changed in Belgium: since 2007, investing in cluster munitions is banned by law in Belgium. Also internationally progress is made: in December 2008, the Convention on Cluster Munition was signed, a clear signal of the international community that cluster munitions is seen as a inhuman and illegal weapon. Nevertheless banks world-wide keep on investing in cluster munitions and thereby they support the production of this cruel weapon.

In co-operation with IKV Pax Christi, a Peace Organisation from the Netherlands, Netwerk Vlaanderen presents the results of its research on banks and their involvement in cluster munitions producers in the report entitled 'Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions: a Shared Responsibility'. The research findings are updated in April 2010.

Download the Full Report, Key Findings and Press Release.pdf

Website Banksecrets

June 2009

In june 2009 six member organisations of Banktrack did the research for the website www.banksecrets.eu. The research question was if 13 of the biggest european banks (Banco Santander, Barclays, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, ING, Intesa Sanpaulo, HSBC, RBS, Société générale en Unicredit) invest in 14 harmful projects and companies (Belene, PetroChina, Dongfeng, EADS, Freeport McMoran, HidroAysén, Ilisu, Lundin, Sakhalin, Suncor, Total, Vedanta Resources,Wal-Mart en Textron). Here you will find a profile of each bank summarizing the research results and the harmful investments.