About Bank for Nature

Whilst our money sits in our bank accounts, banks use it to make their loans and investments.
That gives people real power in shaping how finance impacts the planet.

However, many banks invest in industries that destroy nature. Between 2015 and 2022, just six banks
provided over $77 billion dollars to the 55 largest industrial animal agriculture
companies - the industry that is the leading driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss.

Bank for Nature is working to change that and unlock the collaborative power of banking
customers and their savings to drive change in the financial sector.

Accountability

Showing whether banks invest in factory farming and helping consumers find nature-friendly banks, with transparent data available in a few clicks.

Consumer Engagement

Making it easier than ever for customers to send a powerful message to their banks to demonstrate the risks associated with factory farm finance.

Industry Standards

Growing public and competitive pressure to ditch factory farm finance and raising the profile of the issue with up-to-date news, research and guidance.

Our
Mission

A Financial System that Protects Nature
and Unlocks the Food Transition*

*If you live, work or depend on Earth, this will be important to you

We’re supporting banks to manage the huge financial and systemic risks posed by industrial animal agriculture, benefit from the generational investment opportunities in the food transition, and align their portfolios with global climate and biodiversity goals.

To do so, banks should commit to three key areas in their policies and practices:

Stop Factory Farm Finance

Commit to no new financing for industrial livestock production and to phase out existing exposure by:

Ending new or renewed corporate loans, revolving credit, bonds, or underwriting related to factory farming.
Disclosing current exposure to the sector and setting a timebound phase-out plan.

Accelerate Investment in the Food Transition

Maximise the economic opportunity of the food transition by:

Using stewardship and active ownership to drive investee companies toward sustainable, low-impact food production aligned with net-zero pathways and EAT-Lancet dietary guidelines.
Expanding finance for plant-based proteins and nature-positive food systems.

Take Clear Action to Help Achieve Global Biodiversity Goals

Publish a transition plan to align all finance and investment activities with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) by:

Setting and publicly disclosing science-based targets that drive measurable progress on nature and support halting biodiversity loss this decade.
Integrating biodiversity risks, dependencies, and goals into all financing decisions, redirecting capital to nature-positive outcomes at scale.

Why Factory Farm Finance Matters

70+
Billion

animals are raised and slaughtered under factory farming conditions each year, mostly by a handful of global corporations. This results in extreme environmental damage, vast air, water and land pollution, and significant suffering for farmed animals. It is also a leading driver of public health risks, including pandemics and antibiotic resistance.

Now recognised as the leading driver of nature loss – which is estimated to cut global GDP by $10 trillion by 2050 – this model of food production is creating material financial, environmental, and reputational risks across the banking sector.

Here’s the Risk

Banks that continue to finance factory farming are heightening risks to their portfolios, to their long-term returns and throughout the whole financial sector. They are escalating nature- and climate-related risks that are already reshaping global markets.

Here’s the Opportunity

Banks that take positive, decisive action now – to phase out factory farming and invest in sustainable, resilient, plant-forward food systems — are not just supporting nature. They are supporting sound financial risk management and capitalising on the opportunity to lead the transition to a food system built for the future.

What is factory
farming?

Factory farming is large-scale industrial animal agriculture, where huge numbers of animals are kept in confined spaces and raised for maximum output at minimum cost. It concentrates production, land, and animals, but passes on the significant nature and social costs onto society and other third parties. These operations rely on confined animal systems, intensive feed crops, and antibiotics to sustain growth, while driving deforestation, emissions production, water pollution, and biodiversity loss.

What is factory
farm finance?

Factory farm finance is the system of financial actors that provide loans to and invest in industrial animal agriculture and its supply chains, including feed and equipment, which sustain the global model of factory farming. It seeks short-term profit without appropriately internalising the long-term costs that are imposed on society, animals, the financial sector and broader economy.

Get Involved

Join the movement to create a nature, climate and animal-friendly financial system.

Take Action

Find your bank and send them a message in just a few quick clicks on the same page.

Alongside thousands of others, you can help to unlock the incredible collective power of consumers taking action to stop factory farm finance.

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Support Our Mission

Without you, we cannot do our work. So your support really matters.

The more people that take action, the more we can all achieve.

Work With Us

Our impact is made by mission-driven volunteers. If you want to have an outsized impact in tackling factory farming with our innovative approach, get in touch.

If you're an organisation wanting to support or partner with us, drop us a message to see how we can work together.

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