8th January 2021 Reports indicate that the State Bank of India (SBI) is issuing a US$600 million bond next week, with HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered listed as managers leading the deal. SBI may be about to lend AU$1billion to the Carmichael coal project, which means these banks … Read More
Backlash to State Bank of India’s potential Adani coal loan spreads through finance sector
22 December 2020 The State Bank of India (SBI) is facing a growing backlash from finance sector firms, after news broke last month that it is seriously considering a A$1 billion loan to the controversial and destructive Adani Carmichael coal project. SBI’s potential support for a new thermal coal mine … Read More
State Bank of India staff reject its proposed loan to Adani coal
17 December 2020 Over 90% of respondents to Market Forces’ State Bank of India (SBI) staff survey would oppose the public bank’s lending of A$1 billion to Adani’s Australian mega-mine. This puts SBI’s management on a collision course with its employees if it ends up supporting Adani’s climate-wrecking Carmichael thermal … Read More
HSBC can help stop the State Bank of India from funding the Adani Carmichael coal mine. But will it?
9 December 2020 Since reports surfaced that the State Bank of India (SBI) is considering lending almost A$1billion to Adani’s Carmichael mega-mine, backlash against the loan has spread through the finance sector. Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, and Norwegian investor Storebrand joined European giant Amundi in the call for … Read More
Adani breaches environmental conditions again as SBI investors speak out against loan to the reckless project
4 December 2020 Adani Mining has been fined by the Australian Government for breaching environmental conditions in October, while building its coal mine in important wildlife habitat in central Queensland. This is yet another example of Adani’s disregard for environmental protection and provides another signal to the State Bank of … Read More
Major investor threatens to dump State Bank of India bonds over Adani loan controversy
28 November 2020 Amid a growing public backlash, one of the State Bank of India’s (SBI) investors, French giant Amundi, has announced that it will sell off its SBI green bonds if the bank’s executives grant a A$1bn loan to Adani’s Carmichael coal mine. “We consider SBI should not finance … Read More
Urgent: Tell HSBC to withdraw from Payra coal port
6 November 2020 Use the form on the right to email HSBC telling the bank to withdraw from Payra Port. UK-headquartered HSBC is arranging finance for the dredging of Payra coal port in Bangladesh. Among other commodities, this port would import 20 million metric tons of coal for eight proposed … Read More
HSBC: don’t fund coal in Bangladesh
12 November 2019 Our new report, co-published last week with civil society organisations in Bangladesh, shows that if all the coal power projects proposed for Bangladesh were built, these plants would increase the country’s coal capacity 63-fold, from 525 MW today to 33,200 MW by 2031. HSBC is considering funding … Read More
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