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Ethical banks in your country: why your bank account matters

Most people think about their environmental and animal-welfare impact in terms of diet, travel or shopping, but rarely their bank account. In reality, banks are some of the biggest financiers of intensive animal agriculture, one of the leading drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Where you bank can determine what gets built: factory farms, or the plant-based alternatives replacing them.

Bank for Nature assesses banks operating in your country on their exposure to factory farming, financing for alternative-proteins, animal welfare policies, and broader nature and sustainability commitments. Choosing a more ethical bank is one of the simplest, lowest-effort ways to reduce your environmental and animal-welfare footprint.

Frequently asked questions

At minimum, a bank should be transparent about whether it finances intensive animal agriculture, and ideally have a policy excluding or restricting factory farming from its lending. Stronger banks go further, financing plant-based and alternative-protein businesses, integrating conditions and engagement strategies with companies to advance the protein transition, and backing broader nature and sustainability commitments.
Many mainstream banks in your country finance intensive animal agriculture, but few are transparent about it and it receives far less scrutiny than sectors like fossil fuels. Bank for Nature researches and publishes assessments on banks operating in your country, bank by bank.
Use the ratings above to compare banks operating in your country on factory farming exposure, animal welfare policies, and broader sustainability commitments. You can then choose, or switch to, one of the better-performing options. If you leave a bank, make sure to let them know why, using our email tool.
Individually, one account is small. But collective pressure has shifted bank policy before - the same approach helped push fossil fuel exclusions into mainstream banking and has encouraged the world's largest investors to address the energy transition. Every customer who asks the question makes it harder for banks to ignore.
Factory farm financing is the primary focus, since it's one of the most under-scrutinised, high-suffering sectors in banking. Where relevant, assessments also reflect financing for the plant-based food transition, animal welfare, and broader nature protection and sustainability efforts.