ING, the leading bank in the Netherlands, is a key lender for both the fossil fuel and steel industries: two of the most environmentally and climate damaging industries in the world. What is the impact of ING’s dirty deals with companies like ExxonMobil and ArcelorMittal on people, workers and the climate? And how are local communities fighting back for clean air and water, their health and an end to fossil fuels? Frontline activists from 6 different countries are in Amsterdam to hold ING accountable at their Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and will share their stories with you.
About the speakers
Aline Marins is a community defender from Brazil. Fights against Ternium
Roselio Contreras is a community defender from Mexico. Roselio fights against ArcelorMittal.
Melanie Oldman is an environmental activist from the Gulf Coast of the USA, fighting against LNG.
John Beard is an environmental activist from the Gulf Coast of the USA, fighting against LNG.
Radek Kubala is campaigner at Re-Set from Czechia. Radek fights against EPH.
Dada Konkah is a community defender from Liberia. Dada fights against ArcelorMittal.
About ING fossielvrij
About BankTrack
We believe that people power is the way to build a safe climate and a better, just future. The Fossil Free movement in the Netherlands consists of hundreds of volunteers, local and thematic groups, and a core team of a handful paid employees.
In de zoektocht naar een alternatief voor Gronings- en Russisch gas arriveren er in Rotterdam enorme schepen met Amerikaans vloeibaar gas: het nieuwe vloeibare goud. De Verenigde Staten bouwen al jaren stevig door aan een booming gasindustrie. Het Nederlandse ING blijkt hierin een hoofdrol te spelen: de bank financiert de Amerikaanse gas-terminals met miljarden. Zijn de klimaatdoelen van Parijs wel te halen als banken de fossiele sector blijven steunen?
Read stories from frontline communities fighting fossil fuel projects in Mozambique, the Gulf South and Ghana, all financed by ING.
BankTrack is the international tracking, campaigning and civil society support organisation targeting private sector commercial banks (‘banks') and the activities they finance. BankTrack combines twenty years of critical yet constructive engagement with banks and banking initiatives with unique campaigning capabilities, thanks to our strong ties with the global bank campaigners movement, including grassroots organisations and partners representing communities in the Global South affected by bank financed projects and companies.
