Ethical Banks

An ethical bank, also known as a social, alternative, civic, or sustainable bank, is a bank concerned with the social and environmental impacts of its investments and loans.

      Supporters

      • “It is our moral duty to Divest from fossil fuels.”

        Rockefeller Brothers Fund
        Rockafeller Brothers Fund
      • “Academic Institutions that are still vested in fossil fuels should ask themselves whether they are in breach of their social responsibility to serve the community and the nation as a whole.”

        Christiana Figueres
        UN Climate Chief, Christiana Figueres
      • “People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.”

        Archbishop Desmond Tutu
        Archbishop Desmond Tutu
      • “We can really invest in new energy sources, divest from old sources, and actually make the economy stronger. So let’s do it.”

        Paul Krugman
        Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Paul Krugman
      • “If you’re committed to greening your campus why wouldn’t you be committed to greening your portfolio, too?”

        Bill Mckibben
        Bill McKibben
      • “The fact that Wells Fargo has invested money in DAPL indicates gross corporate irresponsibility and hypocrisy. As a signatory to the Ecuador Principles, how can Wells Fargo be associated with these companies?”

        Jane Fonda
        Jane Fonda
      • “We have to go after the fossil fuel companies head-on and tell them that they can’t destroy our world.”

        Naomi Klein
        Naomi Klein
      • “Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and as institutions, are taking action.”

        Leonardo DiCaprio
        Leonardo DiCaprio
      • “Have YOU divested yet?”

        Shailene Woodley
      • ?Even minimal due diligence shows that Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco, the companies that own and operate the pipeline, have the worst oil spill record in the United States. How can I trust a bank that was not aware of this?”

        Jane Fonda
        Jane Fonda
      • “As a customer of your bank, I reject the notion of my money helping to support your investment in the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is an inherently dangerous and unjust oil pipeline that threatens air and water quality in many states and violates sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.”

        Jane Fonda
        Jane Fonda