Protesting environmentally unsound policies of development banks

In 1993, a letter signed by 12 Friends of the Earth groups and 17 other NGOs was sent to the President and Executive Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, protesting their intention to finance the completion of the Mochovce nuclear plant in Slovakia. A protest to the World Bank contributed to the cessation of funding of the Narmada dam project in India.

1. Protesting unsound public spending
2. Protesting lack of integration of environmental and economic issues
3. Protesting environmentally harmful development
4. Protesting

1. Reviewing regulations in the banking industry
2. Opposing World Trade Organization agreements
3. Investing ethically
4. Integrating environmental considerations into lending
5. Greening international institutions
6. Greening institutional investors
7. Establishing community banks
8. Developing sustainable development policy
9. Creating non-profit banking services

1. Developing international environmental policy
2. Analysing development policy

1. Maintaining secrecy in international development banks

1. Promoting environmental shareholder activism
2. Banking

1. Unsustainable economic development
2. Unethical practices relating to development
3. Unaccountability of international financial institutions
4. Socially irresponsible programmes of transnational banks
5. Over-dependency on international financial institutions

1. Undeveloped
2. Underdevelopment
3. Overdevelopment
4. Development